VERDI GALA – Festival Verdi Parma

On the occasion of Giuseppe Verdi's 210th birthday, Festival Verdi in Parma streams live on OperaVision a gala live from its Teatro Regio. The Festival Verdi is considered one of the premier opera music events in Italy and in the world, bringing together music lovers a opera music enthusiasts in Parma and Busseto, the homelands of Maestro Giuseppe Verdi.

Soloists, Eleonora Buratto, Clementine Margaine, Gregory Kunde and Michele Pertusi lead the birthday tributes with music from Aida, Don Carlo, Ernani, Macbeth, Nabucco and Otello with Omer Meir Wellber conducting the Chorus of Teatro Regio di Parma and the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini.

Streamed LIVE on OperaVision on 10 October 2023 at 20:00 CET and available until 10 April 2024 at 12:00 CET: https://operavision.eu/performance/ve...

CAST

Soprano
Eleonora Buratto

Mezzo-soprano
Clémentine Margaine

Tenor
Gregory Kunde

Bass
Michele Pertusi

Orchestra
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini

Chorus
Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma

Conductor
Omer Meir Wellber

Chorus Master
Martino Faggiani


PROGRAMME

I Vespri siciliani
Overture

Otello
'Già nella notte densa'
'Dio! Mi potevi scagliar'

Macbeth
'Patria oppressa!'

Ernani
Scene, aria and cabaletta 'Che mai vegg’io, Infelice!… E tuo credevi, infin che un brando vindice'

I Lombardi alla prima Crociata
Chorus 'O Signor dal tetto natio'

Nabucco
Overture
'Gli arredi festivi'

Aida
'Già i sacerdoti adunansi'

Don Carlo
​​​​​​​'Ella giammai m’amò'
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​'Tu che le vanità'

Nabucco
Chorus ​​​​​​​'Va pensiero'

0:00 Introduction
21:23 I Vespri siciliani – Overture
31:35 Otello – 'Già nella notte densa'
42:57 'Dio! Mi potevi scagliar'
48:30 Macbeth – 'Patria oppressa!'
55:09 Ernani – 'Che mai vegg’io, Infelice!… E tuo credevi'
1:02:50 I Lombardi alla prima Crociata – 'O Signor dal tetto natio'
1:07:50 Intermission
1:30:25 Nabucco – Overture
1:38:05 'Gli arredi festivi'
1:43:33 Aida – 'Già i sacerdoti adunansi'
1:54:22 Don Carlo – ​​​​​​​'Ella giammai m’amò'
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​2:05:30 'Tu che le vanità'
2:18:27 Nabucco – ​​​​​​​'Va pensiero'

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