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    Il corsaro

     

    2004 Sarasota Opera Production

    March 6, 9, 11, 14m, 17, 21m, 27m

     

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    Tragic Melodramma In Three Acts, Sung In Italian
    Poetry By Francesco Maria Piave
    Based On The Poem The Corsair By Lord Byron

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    Conductor

    Victor DeRenzi


    Stage Director

    Nathaniel Merchant


    Scenic Designer

    Troy Hourie


    Costume Designer

    Howard Tsvi Kaplan


    Lighting Designer

    Jeff Davis


    Wigs And Make-Up Designer

    Georgianna Eberhard


    Chorus Master

    Roger L. Bingaman


    Assistant Conductors

    Daniele Piattelli


    Fight Director

    Brian Robertson


    Surtitle Supplier

    Words For Music


    Surtitle Translator

    Victor DeRenzi

     

    New Production Created By Sarasota Opera

     

     

    Cast

     

    Corrado, captain of the corsairs

    Gabriel González


    Giovanni, a corsair

    Justin Petersen*


    Medora, Corrado's young lover

    Dara Rahming*

     

    Gulnara, Seid's favorite slave

    Barbara Quintiliani

     

    Seid, Pasha of Coron

    Joshua Benaim


    Selimo, an Aga

    Mark T. Panuccio*


    Eunuch

    Toffer Mihalka**


    A Slave

    Andrew Bidlack**

     

    * Studio Artist
    * Apprentice Artist

     

    Sarasota Opera Orchestra
    Chorus: Sarasota Opera Apprentice And Studio Artists

     

     

    Reviews

     

     

    “Sarasota Opera has proven it is capable of world-class quality, and its audiences are coming to expect the best.”
    —Gayle Williams, Sarasota Herald-Tribune

     

    “Strong, idiomatic conducting by Sarasota’s artistic director Victor DeRenzi is the bedrock of Sarasota’s Verdi, and this Corsaro did not disappoint.”
    —George Loomis, Financial Times

     

    “Where else outside of Italy could you experience Oberto, Alzira, and Il Corsaro?”
    —John Fleming, St. Petersburg Times

     

    “The company’s artistic director and guiding light was at his finest, drawing such committed and combustible playing from the Sarasota Opera Orchestra that one almost forgot this was a minor Verdi score.”
    —Lawrence A. Johnson, Sun-Sentinel

     

    “Il Corsaro played to capacity for seven performances in the 1,000-seat opera house. Such support is the envy of regional companies that have trouble attracting an audience for anything but favorites such as La Bohème and Carmen.”
    —Opera News

     

    “The Sarasota production … makes one realise that the opera is entirely worthy of being restored to the standard Verdi repertory.”
    —Tom Rosenthal, Opera Now

     

    (Photos: Deb Hesser / Sarasota Opera)

     

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