A traditional Carmen in Salerno

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 28 December 2014

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Reviewed at Teatro Municipale Giuseppe Verdi, Salerno on 27 December 2014

Bizet, Carmen

Teatro dell'Opera di Salerno

Daniel Oren, Conductor

Jean-Daniel Laval, Director

Anna Caterina Antonacci, Carmen

Alejandro Roy, Don José

Alida Berti, Micaëla

Alberto Gazale, Escamillo

Stefanna Kibalova, Frasquita

Milena Josipovic, Mercédès

Francesco Pittari, Le Remendado

Fabio Previati, Le Dancaïre

Omar Kamata, Moralès

Carlo Striuli, Zuniga

Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana Giuseppe Verdi

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.