The Opera
Ildebrando Pizzetti
Assassinio nella cattedrale
New Production of the Teatro alla Scala
May
2009: 22 (20:00), 24 (20:00 - reserved), 26 (20:00), 29 (20:00)
June
2009: 01 (20:00), 05 (20:00), 08 (20:00), 12 (20:00)
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Sung in Italian with electronic libretto in Italian, English
Running Time: 2 hours
Assassinio nella cattedrale is a 20th-century opera that definitely deserves to be rediscovered. Set in gothic Canterbury, it focuses on the doubts and moral dilemmas that are preying on the conscience of an archbishop in disagreement with the king. To preserve his ideological purity he will choose God over his sovereign, and will perish by martyrdom.
Based on T. S. Eliot’s play “Murder in the Cathedral”, the mystic and evocative atmosphere is rendered by Ildebrando Pizzetti, then at the apex of his career.
Staging, Sets and Costumes
Yannis Kokkos
The archbishop Thomas Becket
Ferruccio Furlanetto
First priest of the cathedral
Gianluca Sorrentino
Second priest of the cathedral
Davide Pelissero
Third priest of the cathedral
Armando Gabba
First tempter
Salvatore Cordella
Second tempter
Angelo Veccia
Third tempter
Petri Lindroos
Fourth tempter
Luca Dall'Amico
First coryphaeus
Raffaella Angeletti
Second coryphaeus
Anita Raveli
First knight
Gian Luca Pasolini
Second knight
Giuseppe Altomare
Third knight
Alessandro Paliaga
Fourth knight
Ernesto Panariello