INTESA SAN PAOLO

L'opera seria

Florian Leopold Gassmann
Commedia per musica
Libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi

Season: 2024/2025

Teatro alla Scala New Production
In co-production with MusikTheater an der Wien
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra on historical instruments and Les Talens Lyriques

Opera

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CREATIVE TEAM

Conductor
 
Christophe Rousset
Staging and costumes
 
Laurent Pelly
Sets
 
Massimo Troncanetti
Lights
 
Marco Giusti
Choreography
 
Lionel Hoche

CAST

Fallito
 
Pietro Spagnoli
Delirio
 
Mattia Olivieri
Sospiro
 
Giovanni Sala
Ritornello
 
Josh Lovell
Stonatrilla
 
Julie Fuchs
Smorfiosa
 
Andrea Carroll
Porporina
 
Serena Gamberoni
Passagallo
 
Alessio Arduini
Bragherona
 
Alberto Allegrezza
Befana
 
Lawrence Zazzo
Caverna
 
Filippo Mineccia
Ballerina (*Students of the Teatro alla Scala Academy)
 
María Martín Campos*
Coro di ballerini (soprano) (*Students of the Teatro alla Scala Academy)
 
María Martín Campos*
Coro di ballerini (mezzo-soprano) (*Students of the Teatro alla Scala Academy)
 
Dilan Şaka*
Coro di ballerini (tenor) (*Students of the Teatro alla Scala Academy)
 
Haiyang Guo*
Coro di ballerini (bass) (*Students of the Teatro alla Scala Academy)
 
Xhieldo Hyseni*

La Scala has recently undertaken the systematic rediscovery of the Italian roots of melodrama. After looking to Venice (La Calisto by Cavalli and L’Orontea by Cesti) and Naples (Vinci’s Li zite ’ngalera), in 2025 the theatre presents an encounter of one of Italy’s premier poets, Ranieri de’ Calzabigi, and a Bohemian who made Vienna his second home, Florian Leopold Gassmann, court composer for Joseph II and Antonio Salieri’s teacher. The latter’s Opera seria, presented in Vienna in 1769 and here conducted by Christophe Rousset in a new production by Laurent Pelly with a stellar cast of young talents, is an irresistible satire of the theatre world that aptly conveys the koinè of the Gluckian reform, in which librettist Calzabigi figured prominently.

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