Release Date

01 Jan, 1993

Runtime

02:06: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera. Produced in 1893 as Verdi turned 80 there is much in this masterpiece that can be identified as a modernist neoclassical work. The use of short motifs instead of long arioso melodic lines, the spry and reduced orchestral textures and the lack of a single 'stand and deliver' dramatic declamatory aria all serve to make this more of a 20th century work than an example of 19th century late-Romanticism.

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Actors

Mirella Freni

Barbara Bonney

Paul Plishka

Bruno Pola

Marilyn Horne

Frank Lopardo

Piero De Palma

Anthony Laciura

James Courtney

Susan Graham

James Levine

Carole Wright

Tim Willson

MET Orchestra

Crew

Arrigo Boito

Franco Zeffirelli

Bill King

William Burdick

James Levine

Paul Mills

Giuseppe Verdi

Louisa Briccetti

Ron Washburn

Jessica Ruskin

Gil Wechsler

Brian Large

Susan Erben

James Levine