Color: Colour

Credits:

Veen, Jeroen Van

Description:

The setting is a small village in 18th century Germany. Sabina, a village girl, falls in love with Claudio, a young man she meets in town. Sabina's father, Don Petronio, the mayor of the village, is planning to marry off his daughter to the village schoolmaster, Trifoglio. One day, Sabina's family sees a portrait of Claudio in her possession, and Sabina quickly pretends that it is that of her lover, the King. Don Petronio, who had come to visit the village, desperately tried to persuade Claudio to take Sabina as his wife. Sabina, confused, tells the people that Claudio is not actually the king... "The Wedding in the Village," Donizetti's third opera buffa, was composed at the age of 20, when he returned to his hometown of Bergamo after training in Milan on the recommendation of his teacher Maile. The music, while heavily influenced by Rossini, already shows the germ of Donizetti's own bel canto style that would flourish in later years. However, after its premiere in Mantova in 1819 and a second performance in Genoa in 1822, the opera was never performed again.The opera was restored at the Bergamo Donizetti Festival in 2020, based on a manuscript kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris for 200 years, with the missing Act II quintuplets added by Enrico Melozzi and others, and analyzed and revised by Edoardo Cavalli and Maria Chiara Bertieri. The work was revived at the Bergamo Donizetti Festival in 2020. Marancelli's staging, with the orchestra on stage and set on the flat floor of the audience-free Donizetti Opera House, is unique in that it was developed in the midst of the Corona Disaster. The comical performance of this production is captured from 360-degree camera angles. Led by the nimble baton and fortepiano of Stefano Montanari, a baroque violin virtuoso who has expanded his activities as an opera conductor in recent years, the singing by a full complement of singers and the lively performance on period instruments by the Orchestra Ri-Originari, this young Donizetti's opera The young Donizetti's opera is beautifully brought to life by the lively performance of period instruments by the Orchestra Ri-Originari. Naxos Japan