Li zite 'ngalera at La Scala: galley trip of the newlyweds

Li zite 'ngalera

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 07 April 2023

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“contradictory and impossible love affairs, complicated by the interchange of male and female roles”

Reviewed at Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 4 April 2023

Vinci, Li zite 'ngalera

Teatro alla Scala

Andrea Marcon, Conductor

Leo Muscato, Director

Federica Parolini, Set Designer

Silvia Aymonino, Costume Designer

Alessandro Verazzi, Lighting Designer

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Coro del Teatro alla Scala

Francesca Aspromonte, Carlo Celmino

Chiara Amarù, Belluccia Mariano

Francesca Pia Vitale, Ciomma Palummo

Alberto Allegrezza, Meneca Vernillo

Raffaele Pe, Ciccariello

Filippo Mineccia, Titta Castagna

Marco Filippo Romano, Rapisto

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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.

Li zite 'ngalera at La Scala: exciting galley trip of the newlyweds