The Swedish King is back in Naples for Un ballo in maschera

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 25 February 2019

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“The singers handled the finesses of Verdi’s enchanting phrasing because Renzetti showed the route”

Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 22 February 2019

Verdi, Un ballo in maschera

Teatro di San Carlo

Donato Renzetti, Conductor

Leo Muscato, Director

Federica Parolini, Set Designer

Silvia Aymonino, Costume Designer

Roberto Aronica, Riccardo, Gustavo, King of Sweden

Celso Albelo, Riccardo, Gustavo, King of Sweden

Luca Salsi, Renato, Count Anckarström

Carmen Giannattasio, Amelia

Susanna Branchini, Amelia

Agostina Smimmero, Madame Arvidson

Anastasia Boldyreva, Madame Arvidson

Anna Maria Sarra, Oscar

Marina Monzó, Oscar

Cristian Saitta, Count Ribbing

Laurence Meikle, Count Horn

Nicola Ebau, Cristiano

Gianluca Sorrentino, Judge

Corpo di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo

Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

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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.