A footloose staging of Paisiello's Don Chisciotte

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 07 August 2016

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Reviewed at Masseria Luco, Martina Franca on 3 August 2016

Paisiello, Don Chisciotte della Mancia

Ettore Papadia, Conductor

Davide Garattini Raimondi, Director

Giada Masi, Costume Designer

David Ferri Durà, Don Chisciotte

Salvatore Grigoli, Sancio Panza

Shiri Hershkovitz, La Contessa

Alessandra Della Croce, La Duchessa

Nico Franchini, Don Calafrone

Iosu Yeregui, Don Platone

Rosa García Domínguez, Carmosina

Alessandra Torrani, Cardolella

Cristina Fanelli, Ricciardetta

Ensemble dell'Orchestra ICO della Magna Grecia di Taranto

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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.