A Live Broadcast Event from The Royal Opera House Covent Garden screened in HD via satelliteSung in Italian | Running time: 3 hours 20 minutes (including one interval) Monday 27 May, 6.45yh/pm, Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan The ultimate bel canto cast is assembled for this important yet rarely performed masterpiece. Based on Sir Walter Scott’s poem The Lady of the Lake, La donna del lago is the most fully Romantic of Rossini’s Italian operas and it’s screening live and direct to Theatr Mwldan’s screen in Cardigan on Monday 27 May at 6.45pm. Expansive ensembles and shimmering orchestration generate an opulence seldom heard in the composer’s comic works. In Renaissance Scotland, King James V travels to the tribal Highlands, where he falls in love with Elena – the lady of the lake. Her father is fighting with the clans against the King’s rule and has promised Elena’s hand in marriage to a clan leader, Rodrigo. Meanwhile Elena herself is in love with the young romantic hero Malcolm. The plot inspired some truly galvanising scenes, most memorably the stunning confrontation between the tenors Uberto (James V in disguise) and Rodrigo. John Fulljames’s staging evokes the exoticised mystery of Rossini’s Romantic landscape, and provides an insight into this rich but under-explored seam of operatic gold. In the hands of three of the leading bel canto voices of our time, Juan Diego Flórez (Count Almaviva in The Royal Opera’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tonio in The Royal Opera’s La Fille du régiment), Joyce DiDonato (who sang the title role in Cendrillon with The Royal Opera last Season), and Colin Lee (Tonio in the 2012 revival of La Fille du régiment), La donna del lago promises to be a musical revelation. Cast Elena Joyce DiDonato ​Uberto (James V) Juan Diego Flórez Malcolm Daniela Barcellona ​Douglas Simón Orfila Rodrigo Colin Lee Royal Opera Chorus Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Conductor Michele Mariotti ​Director John Fulljames Set designs Dick Bird ​Costume designs Yannis Thavoris Lighting design Bruno Poet Tickets for The Royal Opera House screening of La Donna Del Lago are £18 (£16) and can be booked via Theatr Mwldan’s Box Office on 01239 621200, online at www.mwldan.co.uk, or via Smartphones mwldan.ticketsolve.com/mobile. |
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Monday, May 13, 2013 |
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