English subtitles included
From The Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Valery Gergiev conducts this musically exhilarating production, which boasts superlative
performances by Galina Gorchakova, Gegam Grigorian, and Nikolai Putilin with the dancers and actors from the Mariinsky Theatre
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Grigory Karasev - Marchese di Calatrava
Galina Gorchakova - Leonora di Vargas
Nikolai Putilin - Don Carlo di Vargas
Gegam Grigorian - Alvaro
Marianna Tarasova - Preziosilla
Sergei Alexashkin - Padre Guardiano
Georgy Zastavny - Fra Melitone
Lia Shevtsova - Curra
Yevgeny Nikitin - Alcade
Nikolai Gassiev - Mastro Trabucco
Yuri Laptev - Chirurgo
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Kirov Chorus and Orchestra
Valery Gergiev - conductor
Elijah Moshinsky - director
Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino
In the original St Petersburg version of I862
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
0:00 Act III: Attenti, gioco... Un asso a destra
3:57 Act III: La vita e inferno all infelice
12:00 Act III: Amici in vita e in morte
20:14 Act III: Morir tremenda cosa!
28:00 Act III: Compagni sostiamo, il campo esploriamo
42:32 Act III: Rataplan, rataplan della gloria
45:10 Act IV: Fate la carità (recitative)
48:44 Act IV: E vive! Ella vive, gran Dio!
1:18:23 Act IV: Pace pace mio Dio
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Verdi wrote his-epic Forza on commission from the Imperial Theatre of St Petersburg and it was premiered there in 1862. Written for a Russian audience, it ended in despair with the death of all three principal characters, rather than offering the religious consolation of the more familiar revised version. Freed from the need to satisfy a Catholic sense of forgiveness, Verdi showed that destiny catches up with the wrong-doer in the end.
Elijah Moshinsky, the internationally-acclaimed director of this new Kirov production, draws a comparison between the Italian composer and his Russian contemporary Leo Tolstoy saying that “the writer’s concern to present the movement of history is prefigured in Verdi’s attempt to find scenes and melodies to express the force of destiny.” He sees the first version of Forza as a true synthesis between Italian operatic form and the Russian sense of history, and his awareness of this bond informs this powerful and dramatic production.
Using reconstructions of the many magnificent painted backcloths and flats created for the 1862 premiere, and new costumes designed by Peter J. Hall which refer to Napoleon I’s empire-building campaigns of 1808-13, this is glorious grand opera at its most traditional.
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