Casella's rarely performed La donna serpente in Martina Franca

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 27 July 2014

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Reviewed at Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca on 26 July 2014

Casella, La donna serpente

Fabio Luisi, Conductor

Arturo Cirillo, Director

Gianluca Falaschi, Costume Designer

Dario Gessati, Set Designer

Angelo Villari, Altidòr

Zuzana Marková, Miranda

Vanessa Goikoetxea, Armilla

Anta Jankovska, Farzana

Candida Guida, Canzade

Simon Edwards, Alditrúf

Domenico Colaianni, Albrigòr

Pavol Kubáň, Pantùl

Timothy Oliver, Tartagíl

Davide Giangregorio, Tògrul

Carmine Monaco, Demogorgòn

Giorgio Celenza, Badur

Carolina Lippo, La Corifea

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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.