Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux (2016)

Music

In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux , one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Donizetti in 1837 (along with Anna Bolena , Maria Stuarda and Il Castello di Kenilworth), the protagonist, Queen Elizabeth I of England, exclaims: "I do not reign, I do not live". This statement encapsulates great operatic themes, and it is the culmination of an opera that reveals the passions of characters who live among palace intrigues. Written in the mature period of the leader of Italian romanticism, the opera displays a great vocal virtuosity, and is an example of Donizetti prizing the voice above all in the genre. The staging, by South African director Alessandro Talevi, who has been very successful in great opera houses as well as with more experimental theatre, places the play in an undetermined period, focusing on the chiaroscuro. Bruno Campanella conducts.

Director: Alessandro Talevi

Casts

	Mariella Devia as Elisabetta
	Marco Caria as El duque de Nottingham
	Silvia Tro Santafé as Sara, duquesa de Nottingham
	Gregory Kunde as Roberto Devereux
	Juan Antonio Sanabria as Lord Guglielmo Cecil
	Andrea Mastroni as Sir Gualtiero Raleigh

Crew