Giuseppe Verdi : La forza del destino

Giuseppe Verdi : La forza del destino (2011)

Music

Donna Leonora, daughter of the Marquis of Calatrava, is about to flee secretly with her lover Don Alvaro (son of the Viceroy of Mexico and an Inca princess). The Marquis bursts in unexpectedly. Alvaro hesitates to raise his weapon against his lover’s father and throws his pistol. As it falls, the pistol goes off and the Marquis is mortally wounded. As he lies dying, he curses his daughter. Don Carlo di Vargas, Leonora’s brother, resolves to avenge his sister and her fiancé for their father’s death. In the turmoil of the chase, Leonora and Alvaro lose track of one another... ‘La forza del destino’ is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, adapted from the play ‘Don Álvaro o la fuerza del destino’ (Spain, 1835) by Ángel de Saavedra, the Duke of Rivas. Premiered on 10 November 1862 at the Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg. From the box set of 27 Verdi operas “Tutto Verdi”. Recorded live at the Teatro Regio in Parma on 2 and 5 February 2011.

Director: Tiziano Mancini

Casts

	Aquiles Machado as Don Alvaro, figlio del viceré del Messico e di una principessa Inca
	Dimitra Theodossiou as Donna Leonora, figlia del marchese di Calatrava
	Vladimir Stoyanov as Don Carlo di Vargas, fratello di Leonora
	Mariana Pentcheva as Preziosilla
	Roberto Scandiuzzi as Padre Guardiano
	Carlo Lepore as Frá Melitone
	Ziyan Atfeh as Il Marchese di Calatrava
	Adriana Da Paola as Curra
	Alessandro Bianchini as Un alcalde
	Myung Ho Kim as Maestro Trabuco, mulattiere e ambulante
	Gabriele Bulletta as Un chirurgo
	Martino Faggiani as Maestro del coro

Crew