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    Il trovatore

     

    2014 Sarasota Opera Production

    February 8, 12, 16m, 22, 25, 27, March 2m, 7, 14, 22

     

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    Dramma In Four Parts, Sung In Italian
    Poetry By Salvadore Cammarano
    With Additions By Leone Emmanuele Bardare
    Based On The Play El Trovador By Antonio García Gutiérrez

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    Conductor

    Victor DeRenzi


    Stage Director

    Stephanie Sundine


    Scenic Designer

    Michael Schweikardt


    Costume Designer

    Howard Tsvi Kaplan


    Lighting Designer

    Ken Yunker


    Make-Up & Hair Designer

    Sue Sittko Schaefer


    Chorus Master

    Roger L. Bingaman


    Assistant Conductors

    John F. Spencer IV, Tessa Hartle


    Surtitle Supplier

    Words For Music


    Surtitle Translator

    Victor DeRenzi

     

    New Production Created By Sarasota Opera

     

     

    Cast

     

     

    The Count de Luna

    David Pershall


    Leonora

    Reyna Carguill


    Azucena

    Margaret Mezzacappa


    Manrico

    Kirk Dougherty


    Ferrando

    Jeffrey Beruan


    Ines

    Tania Maria Rodriguez*


    Ruiz

    Thorsteinn Árbjörnsson*


    An old gypsy

    Blake Hudson**


    A messenger

    Jared Esguerra**

     

    * Studio Artist

    ** Apprentice Artist

     

    Sarasota Opera Orchestra
    Chorus: Sarasota Opera Apprentice And Studio Artists

     

     

    Reviews

     

     

    "This tale is unfolded through some of the most glorious, tune-filled music Verdi gave us, so, for three or so hours, we are able to suspend our sense of reality and allow ourselves to be enveloped in sheer sound.

    Sarasota Opera is one of the few important companies in the country that delivers opera the way the composer envisioned it when it was first written. How do we know what Verdi wanted? Victor DeRenzi, the company’s artistic director and conductor, is a Verdi scholar and he’s gone back in time, figuratively speaking, to unearth original concepts, stagings, costumes, scenery and style. If you want to see and hear an opera as the composer intended it at the time he wrote it, Sarasota Opera is the place to be."

    - June LeBell, Your Observer

     

    "As is his wont, DeRenzi led an assured performance that stressed the beauty and expressivity of Verdi’s music and let its fervor take care of itself." 

    - George Loomis, Classical Voice America

     

    (Photos: Rod Millington / Sarasota Opera)

     

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