From the Schwetzinger Festspiele at the Schlosstheater (Rokoko Theathre) Schwetzingen,
a historical performance of Gioachino Rossini's "La Scala die Seta - featuring Luciana Serra and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti.
With subtitles in English, Italian, French and German (available in the KZfaq player).
Gioachino Rossini - La Scala die Seta (The Silken Ladder)
Operatic farsa comica in one act
Libretto: Giuseppe Foppa
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CAST
Luciana Serra - Giulia
David Griffith - Dormont, Giulia's tutor
Jane Bunnell - Lucilla, Giulia's cousin
David Kuebler - Dorvil, Giulia's lover
Alberto Rinaldi - Blansac
Alessandro Corbelli - Germano, Giulia's servant
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gianluigi Gelmetti - conductor
Costumes: Chiara Donato
Stage design: Hartmut Warnecke
Musical director: Gianlugigi Gelmetti
TV director: Claus Viller
Recorded live at the Schwetzingen Festival in 1990
About the performance
Schwetzingen is a tiny town near Heidelberg which has a famous palace with magnificent gardens, not unlike those at Versailles. The Schwetzingen Festival is held every Spring in the palace and commissions a small-scale opera for the palace's exquisite Rococo theatre, built in 1752. "La scala di seta" is one of the five one-act operas - farsa giocosa - in which the teenage Rossini first demonstrated his operatic genius. This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival. It was realized to perfection in the small, jewel-like Rococo Theatre of Schwetzingen Palace.
1990, produced by EuroArts and SWR