La cambiale di matrimonio (CANCELLED)
Gioachino Rossini
La Fenice Opera House
La Fenice Opera House
La cambiale di matrimonio (CANCELLED)
Rossini’s first opera, the one-act farce La cambiale di matrimonio (The Bill of Marriage), premiered in 1810 at Venice’s Teatro San Moisè. Composed in a few days when he was 18 years old, it already contains all the elements that soon would take the music world by storm: rich melodic invention, ingenious connections between sung lines and orchestral accompaniment, and breathtaking ensembles that generate irrepressible laughter in the audience. The plot features a Canadian businessman called Slook who comes to London for trade and for marriage. But his contracted spouse Fanny, his partner’s daughter, is already secretly engaged with the young clerk Edoardo; thus, after various funny incidents, Slook sails back towards the New World disgusted with Europe’s strange customs.
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CAST
Conductor Alvise Casellati
Director Enzo Dara
Sets, Costumes & Lighting
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
Tobia Mill Pietro Di Bianco
Fannì Martina Licari
Edoardo Milfort Matteo Roma
Slook Marco Filippo Romano
Norton Rocco Cavalluzzi
La Fenice Orchestra
English sustitles
La Fenice production
The performance lasts about 75 minutes withot interval
