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FULL OLIVO E PASQUALE Zurich 2023 Erich Bieri, Yves Brühwiler, Andrea Suter, Alexandra Forster
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Olivo e Pasquale
- Composer: Donizetti Gaetano
- Libretto: Jacopo Ferretti Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Gemeindesaal Zollikon, Zürich, Switzerland, Zürcher Kammeroper
- Recorded: December 310, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Erich Bieri, Yves Brühwiler, Andrea Suter, Alexandra Forster, Christoph Waltle, Barbara Hensinger, Neal Banerjee, Roland Kornus
- Conductor: Caspar Dechman
- Orchestra: Orchester der Zürcher Kammeroper:
- Chorus: Chor der Zürcher Kammeroper
- Stage Director: Paul Suter, Nina Debrunner
- Costume Designer: Monika Schmoll
- Lighting Designer: Markus Brunn
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Zürcher Kammeroper
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, desubs, gensubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Olivo e Pasquale (Olivo and Pasquale) is a melodramma giocoso, a romantic comedy opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Jacopo Ferretti wrote the Italian libretto after Antonio Simeone Sografi’s play.
It premiered on 7 January 1827 at the Teatro Valle, Rome. Donizetti made some revisions in a subsequent production in Naples for the Teatro Nuovo in September 1827, the most important of which was changing Camillo to a tenor
Synopsis
Time: The eighteenth century Place: Lisbon
Olivo and Pasquale are two brothers, both merchants from Lisbon: the first is hot-blooded and brutal, the other is sweet and shy. Olivo’s daughter, Isabella, loves a young apprentice, Camillo, but her father wants her to marry a wealthy merchant from Cadiz, Le Bross. Isabella tells Le Bross that she loves another. At first he is led to believe that it is Columella, an old conceited and ridiculous man, but shortly after he understands that it is Camillo. Olivo, realizing that his daughter dares to oppose his will, is furious and Le Bross, shocked by his disproportionate reaction, becomes Isabella and Camillo’s ally and promises to help them get married. The lovers threaten to commit suicide at five o’clock if Olivo doesn’t agree to let the marriage take place, but he does not believe them and he refuses to be blackmailed. However, at five o’clock, shots of a firearm ring out: Pasquale faints and Olivo says that now he would have preferred Isabella to be Camillo’s wife rather than be dead. The threat of suicide was not true, and the young couple appears at the door; Olivo embraces and blesses their union.
Quoted from Wikipedia