Wolf-Ferrari : The Cunning Widow (Teatro La Fenice di Venzia)

Wolf-Ferrari : The Cunning Widow (Teatro La Fenice di Venzia) (2007)

Wolf-Ferrari’s comic opera La vedova scaltra (The Cunning Widow), is among the works he based on plays by Goldoni. It matches closely the conventions of 18th-century opera buffa in its witty if sceptical look at the mechanisms governing the interplay of human relations. Four hopeful suitors, English, French, Spanish and Italian, vie for the hand of Rosaura, the cunning widow of the title, who disguises herself to meet each wooer, eventually choosing the only one who can demonstrate his sincerity. This production, filmed live at the Teatro La Fenice in February 2007 in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Goldoni in Venice in 1707, is the first to appear on DVD.

Casts

	Anne-Lise Sollied as Rosaura
	Maurizio Muraro as Milord Runebif
	Emanuele D’Aguanno as Monsieur Le Bleau
	Mark Milhofer as Il Conte di Bosco Nero
	Riccardo Zanellato as Don Alvaro di Castiglia
	Elena Rossi as Marionette
	Alex Esposito as Arlecchino
	Claudio Zancopè as Birif
	Luca Favaron as Folletto
	Antonio Casagrande as Un servo di Don Alvaro

Crew