ERNANI
EXCLUSIVE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO 28
June 4th 2023 · 7pm
Sala Principal
Approx. running time: 2h30 with 1 break
ERNANI
Giuseppe VerdiOpera in four acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
based on Victor Hugo’s Hernani
Ernani, or Castilian honour: the stormy solitude of power.
Verdi’s fifth opera profiles key characters and themes which perhaps appear here in the composer’s work for the first time. Love, the core of all of them, is shown in a variety of lights, sometimes free, sometimes sublimated: natural love, alien to conventions; or forced love, unrequited, silenced. Shared love and solitary love; love for the homeland. Loves which exist marking violent borders of lights and shades in a scenario of political storms.
Creative Team
Conductor
Michele Spotti
Stage Director
Andrea Bernard
Set Designer
Alberto Beltrame
Costume Designer
Elena Beccaro
Lighting Designer
Marco Alba
Cast
Elvira
Angela Meade
Ernani
Piero Pretti
Don Carlo
Franco Vassallo
Don Ruy Gomez de Silva
Evgeny Stavinsky
Giovanna
Laura Orueta++
Don Riccardo
Matheus Pompeu
Jago
Javier Castañeda
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana
Chorus
master Francesc Perales
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
++Centre de
Perfeccionament
A Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía new production, in co-production with Teatro La Fenice, Venice
