16th February

Concert will begin at 16:55 hours GMT

Donizetti's 'Lucrezia Borgia' with Fridman, Esposito, Scala and Mack from Rome

Donizetti's 'Lucrezia Borgia' is a melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo. Gennaro and his friends, including Orsini, celebrate on the brightly lit terrace, in front of which lies the Giudecca canal. The friends' conversation turns to Don Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, to whose house they will be travelling the next day, and to his wife, the infamous Lucrezia Borgia. On hearing Lucrezia's name, Orsini tells of how Gennaro and he, alone in a forest, were warned by a mysterious old man to beware her and the entire Borgia family, and that the two of them would die together.

Performers: Alfonso I D'Este: Alex Esposito. Lucrezia Borgia: Lidia Fridman. Gennaro: Enea Scala. Maffio Orsini: Daniela Mack. Jeppo Liverotto: Raffaele Feo. Don Apostolo Gazella: Arturo Espinosa. Ascanio Petrucci: Alessio Verna. Oloferno Vitellozzo: Eduardo Niave. Gubetta: Roberto Accurso. Rustighello: Enrico Casari. Astolfo: Rocco Cavalluzzi. A Porter: Giuseppe Ruggiero.

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Choir and Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Abbado.

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