(ANSA) - NAPLES, 21 NOV - The inauguration of the opera season with Giuseppe Verdi's Otello, directed by Mario Martone (who has moved the action to the Middle East to the present day) in a sold out Theater in San Carlo, will start for days protagonist the German star Jonas Kaufmann with Maria Agresta in the role of Desdemona, soldier wife.
With the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico on the stage. Among those present the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi, the president of the Campania Region Vincenzo De Luca, the Mayor of Naples, and president of the San Carlo Foundation, Gaetano Manfredi, the prefect of Naples Claudio Palomba. They were welcomed by superintendent Stéphane Lissner (in his second 'first' retirement at the end of Covid restrictions, after La Bohème by Emma Dante) and general manager Emmanuela Spedaliere.
For the new staging of the Neapolitan opera co-produced with the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Michele Mariotti is on the podium, conducting the Sancarliana Orchestra and the Coropreparato by José Luis Basso. Kaufmann will also be Otello in the decite of 24, 28 November, 1 and 4 December, Yusif Eyvazov will perform on 7, 10 and 14 December. Igor Golovatenko is Iago. Completing the cast: Alessandro Liberatore (Cassio), MatteoMezzaro (Rodrigo), Emanuele Cordaro (Ludovico, the ambassador) Biagio Pizzuti (Montano), Manuela Custer (Emilia, Jago's wife), Francesco Esposito (A herald).
The sets are by Margherita Palli, the costumes by Ortensia DeFrancesco, the lights are by Pasquale Mari.
One hundred university students and from Campania conservatories were invited together with the rectors and directors to the first thanks to the contribution of Concerto d'impresa.
At the San Carlo Verdi's opera with libretto by Arrigo Boito taken from Shakespeare's tragedy, arrived as the third stop in the same year 1887 as the first at La Scala, many great tenors who played the protagonist of the title at the Neapolitan Massimo, from Tamagno to Del Monaco.
For Jonas Kaufmann it is the first opera 'on stage' in Neapolitan opera after the performances in concert form.
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