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19/11/2015

Donizetti - Roberto Devereux

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Donizetti's rarely heard opera Roberto Devereux performed at Madrid's Teatro Royal.

A performance of Donizetti's rarely heard opera Roberto Devereux given at Madrid's Teatro Royal. Bruno Campanella conducts Andres Maspero's new production.

Donizetti's third Tudor opera, Roberto Devereux, is a story of love and deceit, based on a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano (1801-1852). Devereux is the lover of Queen Elizabeth I but Parliament has pushed through a charge of treason against him. The Queen's attempts to save Devereux are frustrated by her suspicions that he loves another. Devereux and Sarah, the Duchess of Nottingham, have been seeing each other for some time, and upon discovery of this fact by both the Queen and the Duke of Nottingham, Devereux must meet an inevitable end. The Queen in turn, is forced to confront her old age and a lonely journey towards her own death, and in a fit of frustration and anger, announces her abdication in favour of Charles I.

Andrés Máspero's new production of Donizetti's rarely heard Roberto Devereux is headed by soprano Mariella Devia as Elizabeth, Queen of England, and tenor Gregory Kunde as Robert Devereux the Earl of Essex, with Marco Caria and Silvia Tro Santafé as the Duke and Duchess of Nottingham, Juan Antonio Sanabria as Lord William Cecil, and Andrea Mastroni as Sir Walter Raleigh, with the chorus and orchestra of Teatro Real, Madrid. The performance is conducted by Bruno Campanella.

2pm
Donizetti: Roberto Devereux 
Elizabeth, Queen of England ..... Mariella Devia (soprano)
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex ..... Gregory Kunde (tenor)
Duke of Nottingham ..... Marco Caria (baritone)
Duchess of Nottingham ..... Silvia Tro Santafé (mezzo-soprano)
Lord William Cecil ..... Juan Antonio Sanabria (tenor)
Sir Walter Raleigh ..... Andrea Mastroni (bass)
A page ..... Sebastián Covarrubias (baritone)
A servant of Nottingham ..... Koba Sardalashvili (bass)
Chorus and orchestra of Teatro Real, Madrid
Bruno Campanella (conductor).

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