Viva Verdi
In a series tracing the history of Italian opera, Antonio Pappano looks at six of Verdi's most famous works and visits his birthplace of Le Roncole in northern Italy.
Three-part series tracing the history of Italian opera presented by Antonio Pappano, conductor and music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The series features sumptuous music, stunning Italian locations and some of the biggest names in opera as contributors.
The second episode focuses on Verdi, whose operas are central to Pappano's conducting repertoire and the backbone of the international opera scene. It shows how Verdi's music was influenced by composers such as Bellini and particularly Donizetti, whose gothic masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor is explored with the help of soprano Diana Damrau.
Pappano looks at six of Verdi's most famous works - Nabucco, Rigoletto, Don Carlo, Otello, Falstaff and La Traviata, the last of which Pappano rehearses and conducts at the Royal Opera House with the starry cast of Renee Fleming, Joseph Calleja and Thomas Hampson.
Pappano travels to Le Roncole in northern Italy where Verdi was born amidst a turbulent political environment, and politics became a major influence on Verdi's operas in later life. He conducts Va Pensiero from Nabucco at a vast open-air concert in Naples, a chorus which was to become a powerful symbol of political unity for the Italian people.
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Music Played
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Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco – Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves
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Tenors Unlimited
La Donna E Mobile
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Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco: Va Pensiero (Chorus of The Hebrew Slaves)
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Nana Mouskouri
Song For Liberty
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Antonio Pappano |
Producer | Flavia Rittner |
Director | Flavia Rittner |
Executive Producer | Peter Maniura |
Broadcasts
- Mon 31 May 2010 21:00
- Tue 1 Jun 2010 03:05
- Wed 2 Jun 2010 01:30
- Thu 3 Jun 2010 21:00´óÏó´«Ã½ HD
- Fri 4 Jun 2010 00:30
- Sat 5 Jun 2010 19:00
- Sun 6 Jun 2010 01:55
- Fri 26 Nov 2010 19:30
- Sat 27 Nov 2010 02:55
- Fri 15 Apr 2011 19:30
- Sat 16 Apr 2011 03:00
- Fri 26 Jun 2020 19:00
- Sat 27 Jun 2020 02:30
- Thu 19 Aug 2021 00:20
- Sun 17 Apr 2022 23:20
- Mon 13 Feb 2023 00:45