Verdi: La battaglia di Legnano

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Part of Tutto Verdi series - La battaglia di Legnano (2012) Trieste. 'La battaglia di Legnano' ('The Battle of Legnano') is an opera in four acts, with music by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian-language libretto by Salvadore Cammarano. Most of the early Verdi operas are sort of rare for a reason. They do not rise to the heights of genius that his middle period and late period operas did. However, there are always some beautiful arias or choruses and most of them are great fun......sort of like bel canto on steroids! What I mean is that you can hear that he was coming from the bel canto tradition, but he liked to inject a lot more power into the characters and their music.

Top Cast

Andrew Richards

Arrigo

Dimitra Theodossiou

Lida

Giovanni Guagliardo

Marcovaldo

Enrico Iori

Federico Barbarossa

Leonardo López Linares

Rolando

Sharon Pierfederici

Imelda