FULL Sampiero Corso (Tomasi) Marseille 2005 Guido Murzaev Mataeva Schohn
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Sampiero Corso   
- Composer: Tomasi Henri  
- Libretto: Jacques Fusina based on the book by Raphaël Cuttoli    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Opéra de Marseille, France  
- Recorded: October 2005
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Carlo Guido, Sergey Murzaev, Irina Mataeva, Laurence Schohn, Nadia Ninio
- Conductor: Patrick Davin  
- Orchestra: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Marseille  
- Chorus: Choeurs de l'Opéra de Marseille  
- Chorus Master: Pierre Iodice  
- Choreographer: Anna Yepes  
- Stage Director: Renée Auphan   
- Stage Designer: Dominique Pichou  
- Costume Designer: Katia Duflot  
- Lighting Designer: Roberto Venturi  
Information about the Recording
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs  
- Video Recording from: ok     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from Forum Opera:
In the drama represented, the action focuses on the couple formed by Sampieru, condottiere enriched in the service of the Medici or the kings of France, and his wife Vannina d’Ornano, whose family is half-Genoese.
In the first act, the young woman, mother of an infant, is unhappy with the long absences of her husband, and the risks he runs in fighting against the Genoese who occupy Corsica, especially since she is convinced that this fight is useless because it is lost in advance. This ferment of deep disagreement will make her the forced witness of the “patriotic” gathering which alone constitutes the second act.
In the third act, the Genoese spies, knowing that she is alone, send her a messenger who exploits her weakness and encourages her to plead the cause of her son, heir to the family property, before the Senate of Genoa. At this moment appear Sampieru and his retinue; immediately assimilating this interview to treason, he condemns Vannina to death but he consents to spare her the dishonor of being killed by the henchmen: he strangles her himself. The final painting shows Sampieru in the mountains; he laments his fate, and his past mistake, when someone comes to warn him that armed men are looking for him. Alone against them he succumbs under the blows; he expires dreaming of the kingdom of which his son will be the master. His assassins then come and cut off his head, which had been put at a price. Then begins the funeral vigil, parade of supporters of Sampieru, where the Voceratice, at the same time mourner, cherry and Erinye, sings the personality of the deceased and exhorts the crowd which resumes lamentations and imprecations in exalted choirs.