I PAZZI PER PROGETTO di Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto di Domenico Gilardoni | Norina – Maria Milolidaki | Cristina – Lucia Mastromarino | Eustachio – Massimiliano Fichera | Blinval – Maurizio Leoni | Darlemont – Alessio PotestioDirettore Marcello Panni | Regia – Michal Znaniecki Scene – Luigi Scoglio | Costumi dell’Accademia di Moda e Costume di Roma | Orchestra J Futura di Trento
This year’s festival is different. Having reached 40, we felt we needed to take a moment and look at where we have come from and perhaps consider where we are going from here.
We are very happy with so much we have done, but as always we feel we need to do better, to invent something new, to find new ways to produce, perform and promote opera, both as a spectacle and in terms of the research into lesser known works which we believe is what we do best. So, we have decided, for the first time, to retrieve one of the operas that has had the greatest success at the Festival in the past, and at the time, represented one of our very fortunate discoveries. I pazzi per progetto (The mad by design) by Gaetano Donizetti was first performed in Naples on the 6th of February 1830, for a special gala evening, and was subsequently revived for a few years both in Naples and Palermo. Then nothing more was heard of it until Bruno Rigacci, artistic director of Opera Barga in the Seventies, decided to stage it for the first time in modern days in Barga. It has since been staged quite often, lastly in Bergamo in 2000 to our knowledge, but we feel that this year it is right for us to take a step back to what we were doing a few years ago, in order to then move on. – Nick Hunt
"Ah, by Bacchus, with this aria I shall receive universal applause. People will say to me, “Bravo maestro!” I, in a very modest manner, shall walk about with bowed head; I’ll have rave reviews…I can become immortal… My mind is vast, my genius swift… And at composing, a thunderbolt am I." (From a poem composed by 14 years-old Gaetano Donizetti)
Operas by Gaetano Donizetti – source Wikipedia
Donizetti composed about 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets, 193 songs, 45 duets, 3 oratorios, 28 cantatas, instrumental concertos, sonatas, and other chamber pieces.
* Il Pigmalione (1816; October 13, 1960, Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo)
* Olimpiade (1817, incomplete, libretto by Metastasio)
* L'ira di Achille (1817)
* Enrico di Borgogna (1818; November 14, 1818 Teatro San Luca, Venice)
* Una follia (1818; December 17, 1818 Teatro San Luca, Venice) (lost)
* I piccioli virtuosi ambulanti (1819), opera buffa in un Atto
* Pietro il Grande zar di tutte le Russie ossia Il Falegname di Livonia (1819; December 26, 1819, Teatro San Samuele, Venice),
* Le nozze in villa (1820; 1821? Teatro Vecchio, Mantua)
* Zoraida di Granata or Zoraïda di Granata (1822; January 28, 1822, Teatro Argentina, Rome, rev. January 7, 1824 at the same theatre)
* La Zingara (1822; May 12, 1822, Teatro Nuovo, Naples)
* La lettera anonima (June 29, 1822 Teatro del Fondo, Naples)
* Chiara e Serafina, ossia I pirati (October 26, 1822, Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
* Alfredo il grande (July 2, 1823 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Il fortunato inganno (September 3, 1823 Teatro Nuovo, Naples)
* L'ajo nell'imbarazzo (February 4, 1824, Teatro Valle, Rome)
* Emilia di Liverpool (28.7.1824 Teatro Nuovo, Naples) (L'eremitaggio di Liverpool)
* Alahor in Granata (7.1.1826 Teatro Carolino, Palermo)
* Don Gregorio [rev of L'ajo nell'imbarazzo] (11.6.1826 Teatro Nuovo, Naples)
* Elvida (6.7.1826 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Gabriella di Vergy (1826; 29.11.1869 Teatro San Carlo, Naples) (Gabriella)
* Olivo e Pasquale (7.1.1827 Teatro Valle, Rome)
* Olivo e Pasquale [rev] (1.9.1827 Teatro Nuovo, Naples)
* Otto mesi in due ore (13.5.1827 Teatro Nuovo, Naples) (Gli esiliati in Siberia)
* Il borgomastro di Saardam (19.8.1827 Teatro del Fondo, Naples)
* Le convenienze teatrali (21.11.1827 Teatro Nuovo, Naples)
* L'esule di Roma, ossia Il proscritto (1.1.1828 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Emilia di Liverpool [rev] (8.3.1828 Teatro Nuovo, Naples)
* Alina, regina di Golconda (12.5.1828 Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa)
* Gianni di Calais (2.8.1828 Teatro del Fondo, Naples)
* Il paria (12.1.1829 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Il giovedi grasso (26.2.1829? Teatro del Fondo, Naples) (Il nuovo Pourceaugnac)
* Il castello di Kenilworth (6.7.1829 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Alina, regina di Golconda [rev] (10.10.1829 Teatro Valle, Rome)
* I pazzi per progetto (6.2.1830 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Il diluvio universale (28.2.1830 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Imelda de' Lambertazzi (5.9.1830 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Anna Bolena (26.12.1830 Teatro Carcano, Milan)
* Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali [rev of Le convenienze teatrali] (20.4.1831 Teatro Canobbiana, Milan)
* Gianni di Parigi (1831; 10.9.1839 Teatro alla Scala Milan)
* Francesca di Foix (30.5.1831 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* La romanziera e l'uomo nero (18.6.1831 Teatro del Fondo, Naples) (libretto lost)
* Fausta (12.1.1832 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Ugo, conte di Parigi (13.3.1832 Teatro alla Scala Milan)
* L'elisir d'amore (12.5.1832 Teatro Canobbiana, Milan)
* Sancia di Castiglia (4.11.1832 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo (2.1.1833 Teatro Valle, Rome)
* Otto mesi in due ore [rev] (1833, Livorno)
* Parisina (17.3.1833 Teatro della Pergola, Florence)
* Torquato Tasso (9.9.1833 Teatro Valle, Rome)
* Lucrezia Borgia (26.12.1833 Teatro alla Scala Milan)
* Il diluvio universale [rev] (17.1.1834 Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa)
* Rosmonda d'Inghilterra (27.2.1834 Teatro della Pergola, Florence)
* Maria Stuarda [rev] (18.10.1834 Teatro San Carlo, Naples) (Buondelmonte)
* Gemma di Vergy (26.10.1834 Teatro alla Scala Milan)
* Maria Stuarda (30.12.1835 Teatro alla Scala Milan)
* Marin Faliero (12.3.1835 Théâtre-Italien, Paris)
* Lucia di Lammermoor (26.9.1835 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Belisario (4.2.1836 Teatro La Fenice, Venice)
* Il campanello di notte (1.6.1836 Teatro Nuovo, Naples)
* Betly, o La capanna svizzera (21.8.1836 Teatro Nuovo, Naples)
* L'assedio di Calais (19.11.1836 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Pia de' Tolomei (18.2.1837 Teatro Apollo, Venice)
* Pia de' Tolomei [rev] (31.7.1837, Sinigaglia)
* Betly [rev] ((?) 29.9.1837 Teatro del Fondo, Naples)
* Roberto Devereux (28.10.1837 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Maria de Rudenz (30.1.1838 Teatro La Fenice, Venice)
* Gabriella di Vergy [rev] (1838; 8.1978 recording, London)
* Poliuto (1838; 30.11.1848 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Pia de' Tolomei [rev 2] (30.9.1838 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Lucie de Lammermoor [rev of Lucia di Lammermoor] (6.8.1839 Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris)
* Le duc d'Albe (1839; 22.3.1882 Teatro Apollo, Rome) (Il duca d'Alba)
* Lucrezia Borgia [rev] (11.1.1840 Teatro alla Scala Milan)
* Poliuto [rev] (10.4.1840 Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opéra), Paris) (Les martyrs)
* La fille du régiment (11.2.1840 Opéra-Comique, Paris)
* L'ange de Nisida (1839; ?)
* Lucrezia Borgia [rev 2] (31.10.1840 Théâtre-Italien, Paris)
* La favorite [rev of L'ange de Nisida] (2.12.1840 Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, Paris)
* Adelia (11.2.1841 Teatro Apollo, Rome)
* Rita (1841; 7.5.1860 Opéra-Comique, Paris) (Deux hommes et une femme)
* Maria Padilla (26.12.1841 Teatro alla Scala Milan)
* Linda di Chamounix (19.5.1842 Kärntnertortheater, Vienna)
* Linda di Chamounix [rev] (17.11.1842 Théâtre-Italien, Paris)
* Caterina Cornaro (18.1.1844 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
* Don Pasquale (3.1.1843 Théâtre-Italien, Paris)
* Maria di Rohan (5.6.1843 Kärntnertortheater, Vienna)
* Dom Sébastien (13.11.1843 Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique , Paris)
* Dom Sébastien [rev] (6.2.1845 Kärntnertortheater, Vienna)