La battaglia di Legnano

Status:
Released
Production:
C Major Entertainment
Aired:
2012-02-23
La battaglia di Legnano
Part of Tutto Verdi series - La battaglia di Legnano (2012) Trieste. 'La battaglia di Legnano' ('The Battle of Legnano') is an opera in four acts, with music by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian-language libretto by Salvadore Cammarano. Most of the early Verdi operas are sort of rare for a reason. They do not rise to the heights of genius that his middle period and late period operas did. However, there are always some beautiful arias or choruses and most of them are great fun......sort of like bel canto on steroids! What I mean is that you can hear that he was coming from the bel canto tradition, but he liked to inject a lot more power into the characters and their music.
Music
Characters

Andrew Richards
Arrigo

Dimitra Theodossiou
Lida

Giovanni Guagliardo
Marcovaldo

Enrico Iori
Federico Barbarossa

Leonardo López Linares
Rolando
Sharon Pierfederici
Imelda
Francesco Musinu
Primer Cónsul de Milán
Federico Benetti
Segundo Cónsul de Milán
Gabriele Sagona
Podestá de Como
Boris Brott
Conductor