Rossini: Matilde Di Shabran (Opera) / 2 DVDs / Stage Director: Mario Martone / Olga Peretyatko, Juan Diego Florez, Paolo Bordogna, Anna Goryachova. Michele Mariotti

UPC 044007438138  

REGION 0 NTSC  

Playtime 220 minutes

Made in EU

Audio:  Italian 

Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French

Juan Diego Flrez takes on the lead role in this performance of Rossini's opera at the 2012 Pesaro Festival. Corradino (Flrez), a paranoid, misogynistic lord, is in the care of Aliprando (Nicola Alaimo), a doctor who is concerned that the poor spirits of his employer will damage his health. He duly attempts to make Corradino fall in love with the beautiful and self-willed Matilde (Olga Peretyatko). Will the plan succeed?

Matilde di Shabran (full title: Matilde di Shabran, o sia Bellezza e Cuor di ferro; English: Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty and Ironheart) is a melodramma giocoso (opera semiseria) in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after François-Benoît Hoffman’s libretto for Méhul’s Euphrosine (1790, Paris) and J. M. Boutet de Monvel's play Mathilde. The opera was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Apollo, 24 February 1821  conducted by the violinist Niccolo Paganini. The premiere was followed by a street brawl "between Rossini's admirers and his detractors."