Amarilli Nizza

L'opéra raconte l’histoire invraisemblable d’un pauvre bougre, écartelé entre deux femmes, Fidelia et Tigrana. Après s’être enfui et avoir mené une vie de débauche avec la seconde, il l’abandonne et tente de se racheter une conduite en s’enrôlant dans l’armée. Alors qu’Edgar a sauvé sa patrie, le peuple, qui le croit mort, procède en grande pompe à son enterrement. Au moment de l’oraison funèbre, un moine, le visage caché sous la bure, surgit et révèle à l’assistance horrifiée les turpitudes passées du héros. Fidelia défend sa mémoire. En vain, Tigrana, soudoyée par le moine, accuse Edgar de trahison. Furieuse, la foule veut jeter le cadavre aux corbeaux mais découvre avec stupeur que le cercueil est vide. Le moine dévoile alors sa véritable identité : il n’est autre qu’Edgar déguisé. Il se repent. Fidelia se jette dans ses bras. Leur bonheur est de courte durée ; elle tombe morte, poignardée par Tigrana.

Enrico Castiglione directs this 2001 production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's seminal two-act 1787 dramma giocoso Don Giovanni, an opera mounted at Teatro Argentina in Rome, with musical accompaniment by the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Michael Halaz. The production includes arias by Renato Bruson, Luca Canonici, Amarilli Nizza, Rossana Potenza, Stefano de Peppo and Alessandro Battiato, Anna Laura Longo; Stefano Cucci serves as choir master. Mozart culled the by-now-familiar story from the legend of Don Juan, the world's most gifted lover. Nathan Southern, Rovi

Puccini was always adamant in his preference for all three of the one-act operas that comprise Il trittico to be performed together. That’s how they are in this 2007 Modena production. From the start he had recognized the essential synergy of the brilliant contrasts of melodrama, sentiment and comedy when the trio is presented as an entity across a single evening. Many producers, daunted by a very long evening, made even longer by extended intervals necessary for the changing of very different sets, have been tempted into splitting and pairing them with other short operas. In this Modena production Amarilli Nizza appears in all three operas; as the faithless wife Giorgetta in Il tabarro, as Suor Angelica and as Gianni Schicchi’s daughter Lauretta. Alberto Mastromarino is the jealous husband, Michele in Il tabarro and as Gianni Schicchi.