Opera in four acts Music by Verdi Libretto by TEMISTOCLE SOLERA (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
' Verdi's wild oats ' is not a bad description. Intended to follow up the dizzy success of Nabucco. 1 Lombardi is designed as a primitive epic with a dramatic action which ranges from Milan to Antioch and Jerusalem. It contains scenes and situations of every kind and there are large parts for chorus and stage band. The plot concerns the love of a Christian maid for a Moslem prince and the healing of fraternal strife through devotion to a common cause.
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELLI The action takes place during the first crusade. Acts 1 and 2 4.25* Talk: John Moody , Joint Artistic Director of the Welsh National Opera, on the problems of producing Verdi's early operas,
4.35* I Lombardi. Acts 3 and 4