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Unitel presents in collaboration with Teatro Regio di Parma, where most of the operas have been produced, as well as with RAI and further theatres and partners on the occasion of Giuseppe Verdi’s 200th birthday the probably most ambitious project since Mozart22 at the Salzburg Festival: the audiovisual recording of all 26 Verdi operas and the Messa da Requiem! For the first time ever Verdi’s complete operatic oeuvre – his labor of more than 50 years – is available in High Definition and with surround sound: Starting off with his first opera Oberto and ending with his last opera Falstaff, including of course all of his great operatic “hits”, which make Verdi the most played opera composer of today, but also the lesser known gems and mas-terpieces – all of which in a musical quality and staging, that made the critic of the respected German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung state “This is how Verdi should be played!”
addiTional maTerialsAccompanying the Tutto Verdi opera recordings are the following programs, which all have been edited in such way, that they can be presented as well as an addition to the operas or as standalone programs:
Tutto Verdi ‘10 minute’ introductionsAvailable for each of the 26 Tutto Verdi operas are short introductions with a length of ten minutes each, which not only tell us the sto-ryline of the respective opera work, point out the musical highlights and references, but also put the same into personal and historical context. Context like the death of his two children and his beloved wife within three consecutive years at a very young age, or the failure of Opera premieres, such as the one of La Traviata at La Fenice, and of course the struggle of Italy for independence and unification. For Verdi, who was a fervent patriot, this was a constant subject which he addresses in many of his operas.
The documentary introduces us to the beautiful “homeland” of Verdi, the region of Parma. From the little village called Le Roncole in the vicinity of Parma, where Verdi was born, to the estate close to Parma, to which Verdi - despite the great triumphs he celebrated in Milan, Venice, Naples and other major cities – always came back to and chose to spend the most time of his life. We get to know how Verdi “lives on” in the region and has even formed the area – from the everyday life of a simple peasant to the life of one of the biggest opera stars in the world - Leo Nucci, whom is a regular guest at the Verdi Festival in Parma.
inTernaTional subTiTles For each of the 26 Tutto Verdi operas subtitles in the following languages are available:
Italian (Original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
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AIDA(1871 - Libretto by .A. Ghislanzoni)
Teatro regio di parmaorchestra del Teatro regio di parmaConducted by antonino Foglianistaged by Joseph Franconi lee
Cast: Carlo Malinverno, Mariana Pentcheva, Susanna Branchini, Walter Fraccaro, George Andguladze Alberto Gazale
Length: 154‘Cat. no. A00009000
OTELLO(1887 - Libretto by Arrigo Boito)
salzburg Festivalwiener philharmonikerConducted by riccardo mutistaged by stephen langridge
Cast: Aleksandrs Antonenko, Marina Poplavskaya, Carlos Álvarez, Barbara Di Castri, Stephen Costello, Antonello Ceron, Mikhail Petrenko, Simone Del Savio
Length: 142‘Cat. no. A04001511
FALSTAFF(1893 - Libretto by Arrigo Boito)
Teatro Farnese di parmaorchestra del Teatro regio di parmaConducted by andrea battistonistaged by stephen medcalf
Cast: Ambrogio Maestri, Luca Salsi, Antonio Gandia, Luca Casalin, Patrizio Saudelli, Mattia Denti, Svetla Vassileva, Barbara Bargnesi, Romina Tomasoni, Daniela Pini
Length: 133‘Cat. no. A00008983
MESSA DA REQUIEM(1874)
Teatro Farnese di parmaorchestra del Teatro regio di parmaConducted by yuri Temirkanov
Cast: Dimitra Theodossiou, Sonia Ganassi, Francesco Meli, Riccardo Zanellato
Length: 96'Cat. no. A00008982
TUTTO VERDIT h e C o m p l e T e o p e r a s
OBERTO(1839 - Libretto by Antonio Piazza & Felice Romani)
Teatro regio di parmaorchestra del Teatro regio di parmaConducted by antonello allemandistaged by pier’alli