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Plácido Domingo – Verdi Gala
Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)
Baritone Plácido Domingo
Soprano Anastasia Bartoli
The Sicilian Vespers Symphony
Macbeth Perfidi!…Pietà, rispetto, amore
Ernani Surta è la notte…Ernani! Ernani, involami
Macbeth Prelude
Macbeth Oppressed Homeland
Nabucco Woman, who are you?
The Force of Destiny Symphony
A Masked Ball Here is the Horrid Field
Macbeth Woe is Me
Victory! Victory!
Macduff | Andrea Galli
Malcolm | Antonio Mandrillo
Nabucco Go, Thought
The Troubadour Did You Hear?… Look, at Bitter Tears
Conductor Francesco Ivan Ciampa
ITALIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
CHORUS OF THE MUNICIPAL THEATER OF PIACENZA
Chorus Master Corrado Casati
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.
