STIFFELIO
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Opera in 3 acts
Libretto Francesco Maria Piave
Stiffelio Gregory Kunde
Lina Lidia Fridman
Stankar Vladimir Stoyanov
Raffaele Carlo Raffaelli
Jorg Adriano Gramigni
Federico di Frengel Paolo Nevi
Dorotea Carlotta Vichi
Conductor Leonardo Sini
Director, sets, and costumes Pier Luigi Pizzi
Assistant director and lighting design Massimo Gasparon
Assistant set designer Serena Rocco
Assistant costume designer Lorena Marin
Video editing Matteo Letizi
ORCHESTRA DELL’EMILIA-ROMAGNA ARTURO TOSCANINI
CHOIR OF THE MUNICIPAL THEATER OF PIACENZA
Choir Master Corrado Casati
NEW PRODUCTION
In co-production with Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Teatro Comunale Pavarotti-Freni di Modena, Teatro Municipale Valli di Reggio Emilia
EXTRA
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MUNICIPAL THEATRE OF PIACENZA
A splendid example of late 18th-century architecture, Piacenza’s Municipal Theater was inaugurated on September 10, 1804, with Zamori, or Hero of the Indies, a dramma serio for music by Giovanni Simone Mayr, a Bavarian musician who was Gaetano Donizetti’s teacher and who lived for a long time in Bergamo.
Construction of the theater, designed by Piacenza architect Lotario Tomba (author, among other things, of the Governor’s Palace in Piazza Cavalli) began in September 1803 and was completed the following year.
Piacenza was the first city in Emilia to have a new, modernly conceived, capacious and, above all, beautiful theater; Parma would have it in 1829, Modena in 1838, Reggio Emilia in 1857.