(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 21 – The continuous and pressing tension generated by the magmatic musical flow of Giorgio Battistelli and a powerful staging conceived by the director Robert Carsen made the opening of the 2021-2022 season of the Opera di Roma triumphant with the tragedy ” Julius Caesar ”. The audience that crowded the Costanzi Theater on November 20 for this world premiere of the work expressly commissioned to the Roman composer on an English libretto by Ian Burton let themselves be conquered by the nervous and complex structures of contemporary music light years away from the cantability of traditional titles. of melodrama.
The orchestra of the Opera di Roma, led by Daniele Gatti, on his farewell after three years as musical director, and the choir offered a remarkable performance. In the audience, also the new mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri, president of the Teatro dell’Opera Foundation.
The great merits of Battistelli, Leone d’Oro for Lifetime Achievement, who built an enveloping and solid sound network with sudden bursts emphasized by percussion and brass, was joined by the staging designed by the Canadian director. Carsen set the story that traces Shakespeare’s masterpiece in today’s Rome. The temple of the politics of the city gives way to the seats of a modern-day Senate among which characters in suits, ties and briefcases move. This is how the modern Cassius and Brutus, fearing tyranny, decide the plan to eliminate Julius Caesar, just when the people want him to be proclaimed king.
At the end, the public rewarded everyone with long applause and stamping of feet that dominated some haggard ‘buu’ from the galleries. Particular tribute to the composer who went on stage with Carsen and Gatti. Many praise for the cast, mostly native English speakers: Clive Bayley (Julius Caesar), Elliot Madore (Brutus), Julian Hubbard (Cassius), Ruxandra Donose (Calpurnia, only female role), Dominic Sedgwick (Antony), Michael Scott (Casca), Hugo Hymas (Lucius), the sets by Radu Boruzescu, the costumes by Leon Carvalho, the lights by Peter Van Praet and Carsen himself. (HANDLE).
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