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Fedora
Opera by Umberto Giordano
Thursday
12.12.2024
20:00 — Grand Théâtre de Genève
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Sunday
22.12.2024
15:00 — Grand Théâtre de Genève
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Programme
Antonino Foglianiconductor
Fedora
Opera by Umberto Giordano
Libretto by Arturo Colautti
First performed at the Teatro Lirico in Milan on 17 November 1898
Last time at Grand Théâtre in 1902-1903
New production
Sung in Italian with French and English surtitles
Duration: approx. 2h40 with two intermissions
Musical Director, Antonino Fogliani
Stage Director, Arnaud Bernard
Scenographer and Costumes designer, Johannes Leiacker
Lighting Designer, Fabrice Kebour
Choir director, Mark Biggins
Princess Fedora Romazov, Aleksandra Kurzak (12.12, 15.12, 17.12, 19.12, 22.12) / Elena Guseva (14.12, 21.12)
Count Loris Ipanov, Roberto Alagna (12.12, 15.12, 17.12, 19.12, 22.12) / Najmiddin Mavlyanov (14.12, 21.12)
De Siriex, a diplomat, Simone Del Savio
Gretch, a police inspector, Mark Kurmanbayev
Countess Olga Sukarev, Yuliia Zasimova
Loreck, a surgeon, Sebastiá Peris
Cirillo, a coachman, Vladimir Kazakov
Boleslao Lazinski, a pianist, David Greilsammer / Jean-Paul Pruna (22.12)
Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
The music
Fedora, sister of Tosca? Like Puccini, Umberto Giordano was inspired by a flamboyant heroine of the theatre stage tailor-made by Victorien Sardou for the great Sarah Bernhardt.
These two twinned works also share the same explosive combination of tragic love against a backdrop of totalitarian power. In Saint Petersburg in 1881, Vladimir, fiancé of Princess Fedora Romanova, is assassinated by Loris Ipanov, a suspected anarchist. Drunk with revenge, Fedora pursues the murderer to Paris and denounces him to the imperial police. But Loris reveals to her that his wife was Vladimir’s mistress: victims of a common betrayal, he and Fedora fall in love.
