Celso Albelo

An outsider—a hunchbacked jester—struggles to balance the dueling elements of beauty and evil that exist in his life.

Another love story that ends badly at the opera ... Leonor de Guzman may be a sublime woman, a woman of high rank, she may be the favorite of the king, but true love is forever forbidden. Experience the dramatic story of La Favorite, the most French of Italian operas, given to Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in its original French version.

This production of Lucia was the work of Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera who is the General Director of the company. In his detailed program note he wrote about how he had clearly thought about the setting and the relationship between the libretto and the original novel. This was a very classic staging – one where the gentlemen wore tartan kilts and the ladies long, flowing dresses. There was a lot of standing and delivering and a fair bit of falling to the floor with Enrico in particular seeming to have a thing for pushing other characters to the floor.

A Teatro Massimo production Teatro Massimo in co-production with the Teatro Comunale of Bologna and the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari. Having decided to perform the version edited by Fabrizio Della Seta, the Massimo Theatre got from the City Library the loan of the Bellini’s authentic score that will be exhibited at the foyer during the opera recitals up to the 9th of April, under the production of Jader Bignamini, costumes by Pierluigi Pier’Alli and the direction of Alberto Cavallotti. On the stage as Elvira: Laura Giordano, Ruth Iniesta and Jessica Prattm will perform in different dates.

One of the most popular zarzuelas by Amadeu Vives, directed by Lluís Pasqual and starring María José Moreno and Celso Albelo.

Anna Bolena