Mario Martone has signed the new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto which the Teatro alla Scala in Milan presented last June, and which Rai Cultura proposes on Thursday 27 October at 9.15 pm in the first TV on Rai5. Active in opera, prose and cinema (his latest film, “Nostalgia”, with Pierfrancesco Favino, represents Italy in the race for the next Oscars), with this show Martone has reached his week of Verona production, and precisely in second half of October with Fedora by Umberto Giordano his eighth show is staged at the Piermarini.
“I think it is fundamental to return the violence that Verdi had in mind – declared Martone – for this reason I would like to immediately recognize a clear division between the world of the Duke and the world of the outcasts. Inspired by Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite, we thought of a revolving structure that will allow you to pass from a pleasant dimension of bourgeois well-being to one of slums ”. The show makes use of the sets by Margherita Palli, the costumes by Ursula Patzak and the lights by Pasquale Mari.
On the podium stands Michele Gamba, one of the most appreciated new Italian conductors abroad, former assistant of Antonio Pappano and Daniel Barenboim and with a curriculum that includes Covent Garden, the Berlin Staatsoper, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Opera di Tel Aviv, the Phoenix, the Maggio and the Rai Orchestra. The protagonist is the baritone Amartuvshin Enkhbat, who told the New York Times about this production: “I have sung the role of Rigoletto about 60 times, but this time at La Scala it intimidates and excites me. I feel that the character brings out everything that is inside of me ”. With him, Nadine Sierra, who is a veteran of her recent triumph as Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan, draws a guild that is certainly a victim but also determined to take her fate in hand. The amoral Duke of Mantua has the ring of Piero Pretti. Marina Viotti is one of the mezzosoprano emerging in recent years and embodies Maddalena. Gianluca Buratto puts his deep and dark voice at the service of a Sparafucile who inhabits the streets of a city of today. Vocal power and extraordinary acting skills characterize Fabrizio Beggi’s Monterone.
The Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala is directed by Maestro Alberto Malazzi.
