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FULL ZORAIDA DI GRANATA (Donizetti) Bergamo 2024 Konu Kim, Zuzana Marková, Cecilia Molinari, Tuty Hernàndez
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Zoraida di Granata
- Composer: Donizetti Gaetano
- Libretto: Bartolomeo Merelli, Jacopo Ferretti Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, Italia, Donizetti Opera Festival
- Recorded: November 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Konu Kim, Zuzana Marková, Cecilia Molinari, Tuty Hernàndez, Lilla Takács, Zegri Valerio Morelli
- Conductor: Alberto Zanardi
- Orchestra: Orchestra Gli Originali
- Chorus: Coro dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala
- Chorus Master: Salvo Sgrò
- Stage Director: Bruno Ravella
- Stage Designer: Gary McCann
- Costume Designer: Gary McCann
- Lighting Designer: Daniele Naldi
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Donizetti Opera Festival
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: DVD & BD
- Quality Video: 5 Audio:5
- Subtitles: yessubs, itsubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Zoraida di Granata (also Zoraide di Granata or Zoraïda di Granata) is a melodramma eroico (opera seria or ‘heroic’ opera), in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto had been partly prepared by Bartolomeo Merelli (about whose tardiness the composer complained), based on the French play, Gonzalve de Cordoue ou Grenade Reconquise by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1791), and on a libretto by Luigi Romanelli to an opera by Nicolini called Abenamet e Zoraide.
When Donizetti arrived in Rome, carrying a letter of introduction from his teacher and mentor Johann Simon Mayr to poet and librettist Jacopo Ferretti, he secured his help in revising Merelli’s text.
Although it was Donizetti’s first theatrical success “and the opera in which he began to adopt ‘Rossinian’ techniques”,[2] the original 1822 version of this violent love story was never given a complete performance because Amerigo Sbigoli, the tenor originally cast in the role of Abenamet, died shortly before the first night, with no replacement available. Donizetti quickly adapted this role for contralto, though omitting three numbers in the process.
The first performance took place at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, on 28 January 1822 and it and its composer received great acclaim in the weekly Notizie del giorno.
Synopsis
Time: 1480 Place: Granada, Spain.
The murderous and duplicitous Almuzir wishes to marry Zoraida, the daughter of the late king, who in turn loves Abenamet, the victorious General of the Moors. To save Abenamet from the sentence of death passed on him consequent to the machinations of Almuzir, Zoraida agrees to the marriage. She survives Abenamet’s doubts as to her fidelity and somewhat implausibly is allowed to marry him.
Quoted from Wikipedia