Premiere ARLECCHINO & GIANNI SCHICCHI
Ferruccio Busoni - Giacomo Puccini

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ARLECCHINO
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Arlecchino, narrator: Serena Ferraiuolo / Giulio Settimo
Colombina, Arlecchino’s wife: Michaela Selinger / Emilia Rukavina
Ser Matteo del Sarto, tailor: Blaž Galojlić / Dario Dugandžić
Bombasto, doctor: Luka Ortar / Miloš Milojević
Leandro, knight, Colombina’s lover: Jorge Puerta / Kristian Marušić
Annunziata, the tailor’s wife: Serena Ferraiuolo / Giulio Settimo
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GIANNI SCHICCHI
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Gianni Schicchi: Robert Kolar / Dalibor Hanzalek
Lauretta, his daughter: Anamarija Knego / Darija Auguštan
Rinuccio, Lauretta’s lover: Bryan Lopez Gonzalez / Bože Jurić Pešić
“Old” Zita, Rinuccio’s aunt, Bouso Donati’s cousin: Sofija Cingula / Gordana Kalmar
Gherardo: Marko Fortunato
Nella, his wife: Vanja Zelčić
Gherardino, their son: Elia Saraconi
Betto di Signa: Luka Ortar / Blaž Galojlić
Ciesca, Marco’s wife: Lorena Krstić
Magister Spinellocio, doctor: Dario Bercich / Dario Dugandžić
Amantio di Nicolao, public notary: Dario Bercich / Dario Dugandžić
Pinellino, shoemaker: Saša Matovina
Guccio, painter: Marijan Padavić
Bouso Donati: Andrei Köteles
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Premiere: 14 March 2022

Coproduction: Opera of the CNT Ivan pl. Zajc and Opera of the CNT in Osijek

 

In collaboration with the Opera and Italian Drama of the CNT Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka, and as a co-production with the CNT in Osijek, we present Busoni’s Arlecchino, an opera with the thematic basis of the medieval comedy dell’arte, combined with a comic opera from the famous Puccini trilogy. Although both operas were written in the same period (1913 and 1917), this is truly a kind of “collision” – a clash of tradition seen through the eyes of modernists (Busoni), and modernity seen through the eyes of an “old fashioned” opera composer. Many writers point out that Gianni Schicchi, along with La Boheme and Tosca, is Puccini’s most successful opera, as well as the most important Italian musical comedy after Verdi’s Falstaff. Although the event itself is already mentioned in Dante’s Divine Comedy, it is pointed out that the author “takes as a basis the daring feat of the titular hero who, through a skillful substitution, leaves the best part of the deceased’s property to himself on someone else’s deathbed” (Josip Andreis). Busoni’s Arlecchino is a parody of various operas, but also opera on the whole as a genre, and fits perfectly into the strange diptych alongside Puccini’s comic masterpiece.

 

Duration: two and a half hours, with one intermission

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