Opera in five acts
Libretto by Scribe and Duveyrier Music by Verdi
(Continued in next column)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Florence ' Musical May ' Festival (Chorus-Master, Andrea Morosini )
Conducted by Erich Kleiber
(This recording of a performance given in Florenrce last May has been-made available bv courtesy of Radio Italian)
I Vespri Siciliani was produced at the Paris Opera during the Exhibition of 1855, but for all its auspicious beginning it was never greatly successful as a whole. Its theme is the massacre of the French invaders of Sicily, who were murdered during Vespers at Eastertide, 1282.
Act.
The great square of Palermo
Act 2
A valley outside the city