FULL Il corvo or The Raven (Frigatti) Amazonas 2021 Giovanni Tristacci
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Il corvo or The Raven
- Composer: Frigatti Eduardo
- Libretto: based on Edgar Allan Poe
- Venue & Opera Company: Festival Amazonas de Ópera FAO, Manaus, Brazil
- Recorded: 2021
- Type: Movie
- Singers: Giovanni Tristacci
- Conductor: Marcelo de Jesus
- Orchestra: AMAZONAS FILARMÔNICA
- Chorus: CORAL DO AMAZONAS
- Stage Director: Ana Luisa Anker
- Stage Designer: Giorgia Massetani
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Festival Amazonas de Ópera FAO
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, othersubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Opera-Animation inspired by the short story The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, translated by Machado de Assis and in the Eneida, by Virgílio.
In a mysterious atmosphere, a young man is faced with the death of his beloved when he receives a visit from a strange crow. Perhaps awake, perhaps in delirium, the young man begins a dialogue with the crow, who absurdly answers him. As in Poe’s poem, the plot begins with the young man devoted to reading the ancient classics. Amidst his confusion and his conversation with the crow, fragments of these classic texts come to his mind. These are excerpts from the story of Aeneas and Dido. In this story, Aeneas involves and abandons Dido, driving her to madness and suicide. This passage from the Aeneid, recurrently returns to the thoughts of the main opera character, when he is confronted with the raven, raising paradoxical emotions in relation to the mourning that the young man experiences.