FULL Il paese dei campanelli (Lombardo&Ranzato) Novara 2023 Maritina Tampakopoulos, Francesca Sassu, Silvia Regazzo, Federico Vazzola
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Il paese dei campanelli
- Composer: Lombardo Carlo, Ranzato Virgilio
- Libretto: Carlo Lombardo Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Coccia, Novara, Italy
- Recorded: October 1, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Maritina Tampakopoulos, Francesca Sassu, Silvia Regazzo, Federico Vazzola, Norman Reinhardt, Francesco Tuppo, Stefano Bresciani, Fabio Rossini, Pasquale Buonarota, Leonardo Alberto Moreno
- Conductor: Roberto Gianola
- Orchestra: Orchestra Filarmonica Italia
- Chorus: Coro AsLiCo
- Chorus Master: Massimo Fiocchi Malaspina
- Choreographer: Anna Maria Bruzzese
- Stage Director: Alessandro Talevi
- Stage Designer: Anna Bonomelli
- Costume Designer: Anna Bonomelli
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Fondazione Teatro Carlo Coccia di Novara
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, itsubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Il paese dei campanelli is an operetta in three acts written by . Carlo Rizzo directed by the composer with Lina Di Sambon , Dina Evarist, Piero Zacchetti, Riccardo Massucci and Teatro Lirico in MilanIt was composed in 1923 and was successfully performed on 23 November of that same year at the .Virgilio Ranzato with the music of Lombardo and Carlo Lombardo
At the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 16 February 1924 the Primaria Carlo Lombardo operetta company successfully staged the premiere performance directed by Domenico Lombardo with Lina Di Sambon and in 1927 the Compagnia dei Grandi Spettacoli d’Arte Operettistica with Ines Lidelba, Nella De Campi and < /span>. Nuto Navarrini
Gennaro Gaudiosi’s company brought the title to the Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari on 30 October 1924 and to Taranto on 5 November of the same year at Politeana Alhambra with the soubrette Cettina Bianchi.
At the Teatro Reinach in Parma it was staged on 22 April 1925 for the operetta and comic opera company of the ISAPLIO musical house.
In 1940 the first performance took place in the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele I in Turin.
It is part of the Italian operetta repertoire and is often also represented within the bills of the main theaters alongside the . major operas
The main characters of the operetta are the commander of the sailors, Hans, always intent on keeping the bungling orderly La Gaffe under control, the village burgomaster and his Pomeranian wife (the ugliest woman in the village), the romantic Nela and the comely Bon Bon, Pomeranian friends.
For the Teatro Verdi (Trieste) it was staged for the first time in 1953 in the Castello of San Giusto with Anna Campori, Edda Vincenzi and Elvio Calderoni and in 2007 with Silvia Dalla Benetta. Maurizio Nichetti directed by Maurizio MicheliAriella Reggio and Federica Bragaglia and in the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in 1997 with Sandro Massimini and Gino Taddei, Adriana Innocenti, Graziella Porta, Elena Baggiore in 1970 and 1975 with Aurora Banfi, Politeama Rossetti. It will later be staged in the Teatro Stabile Cesare Gallino directed by
There is also a RAI prose from 11 December 1954, with Arturo Bragaglia, Lola Braccini and directed by Silverio Blasi.
The plot
The plot is very simple and revolves around a story of multiple crossings of couples, which is also treated with lightness and good-natured irony.
In the locality – governed by a burgomaster and gullible city councilors – the houses have a magic bell above the door that has always been inactive but which for mysterious reasons according to a legend could ring if inside the house theangel of the hearth fell into the temptation of committing adultery.
Things get complicated when a ship of handsome sailors arrives at the port, soon won over by the village ladies delighted by the news. The bells begin to do their duty, alerting the male population who will in turn be able to make up for it when, with another ship, and as a consequence of an unfortunate misunderstanding, the sailors’ wives arrive in town and, before recovering their husbands will be able to repay them in equal money by treating themselves to adistraction holiday with the locals. The bell ringing, at that point, will be total but, as in any self-respecting operetta, the squaring of the circle and the happy ending – thanks to the languidness of the music – are around the corner, just before the curtain falls.