A strong, intense La forza del destino in Salerno

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 22 April 2016

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Reviewed at Teatro Municipale Giuseppe Verdi, Salerno on 17 April 2016

Verdi, La forza del destino

Daniel Oren, Conductor

Pier Francesco Maestrini, Director

Alfredo Troisi, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Nicolas Testé, Marquis of Calatrava

Maria Pia Piscitelli, Leonora

Simone Piazzola, Don Carlo

Walter Fraccaro, Don Alvaro

Ekaterina Semenchuk, Preziosilla

Simon Lim, Padre Guardiano

Gezim Myshketa, Fra Melitone

Francesca Franci, Curra

Carlo Striuli, Chirurgo, Alcade

Francesco Pittari, Trabuco

Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana Giuseppe Verdi

Pina Testa, Choreography

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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.