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Fedora

Opera by Umberto Giordano

Thursday

12.12.2024

20:00 — Grand Théâtre de Genève

Grand Théâtre de Genève
Opera & Voice

Artistic partner

Sunday

22.12.2024

15:00 — Grand Théâtre de Genève

Grand Théâtre de Genève
Opera & Voice

Artistic partner

Programme

Antonino Foglianiconductor

Fedora
Opera by Umberto Giordano
Libretto by Arturo Colautti
First performed at the Teatro Lirico in Milan on 17 November 1898
Last time at Grand Théâtre in 1902-1903

New production

Sung in Italian with French and English surtitles
Duration: approx. 2h40 with two intermissions

Musical Director, Antonino Fogliani
Stage Director, Arnaud Bernard
Scenographer and Costumes designer, Johannes Leiacker
Lighting Designer, Fabrice Kebour
Choir director, Mark Biggins

Princess Fedora Romazov, Aleksandra Kurzak (12.12, 15.12, 17.12, 19.12, 22.12) / Elena Guseva (14.12, 21.12)
Count Loris Ipanov, Roberto Alagna (12.12, 15.12, 17.12, 19.12, 22.12) / Najmiddin Mavlyanov (14.12, 21.12)
De Siriex, a diplomat, Simone Del Savio
Gretch, a police inspector, Mark Kurmanbayev
Countess Olga Sukarev, Yuliia Zasimova
Loreck, a surgeon, Sebastiá Peris
Cirillo, a coachman, Vladimir Kazakov
Boleslao Lazinski, a pianist, David Greilsammer / Jean-Paul Pruna (22.12)

Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

The music

Fedora, sister of Tosca? Like Puccini, Umberto Giordano was inspired by a flamboyant heroine of the theatre stage tailor-made by Victorien Sardou for the great Sarah Bernhardt.

These two twinned works also share the same explosive combination of tragic love against a backdrop of totalitarian power. In Saint Petersburg in 1881, Vladimir, fiancé of Princess Fedora Romanova, is assassinated by Loris Ipanov, a suspected anarchist. Drunk with revenge, Fedora pursues the murderer to Paris and denounces him to the imperial police. But Loris reveals to her that his wife was Vladimir’s mistress: victims of a common betrayal, he and Fedora fall in love.

OSR Live

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony N°9 with choir for the finale of « Ode to Joy»

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 11 June 2020 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 9

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 06 March 2024 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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