STIFFELIO
Melodrama in three acts from the libretto by
FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE, adapted from
the play Le Pasteur, ou l’Évangile et le Foyer
di Émile Souvestre et Eugène Bourgeois
TEATRO FARNESE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017 | 8:30 PM
Performance Length: approximately 2 hours
and 30 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission
The audience will be part of the opera and on their
feet, moving freely around the stage space, and
therefore able to choose their own viewing and
listening point.
MUSIC
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Critical Edition overseen by Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell,
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and
Casa Ricordi, Milano
CHARACTERS AND INTERPRETERS
Stiffelio, a protestant minister LUCIANO GANCI
Lina, his wife MARIA KATZARAVA
Stankar, her father, an elderly colonel FRANCESCO LANDOLFI
Raffaele, Lina’s lover GIOVANNI SALA
Jorg, an elderly minister EMANUELE CORDARO
Dorotea, Lina’s cousin CECILIA BERNINI
Federico di Frengel, Dorotea’s lover BLAGOJ NACOSKI
Music Director and Conductor GUILLERMO GARCIA CALVO
Opera Director GRAHAM VICK
Staging, Costumes MAURO TINTI
ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR FROM THE TEATRO
COMUNALE DI BOLOGNA
New staging by Teatro Regio di Parma
In co-production with Teatro Comunale di Bologna