L’assedio di Calais

Gaetano Donizetti

October 26, 2017 at 7:30pm
October 28, 2017 at 7:30pm
Huntington Avenue Theatre

L’assedio di Calais (The Siege of Calais)

Music by Gaetano Donizetti

Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano based on Luigi Marchionni’s play L’assedio di Calais

Sung in Italian with English titles

 

Donizetti’s L’assedio di Calais (The Siege of Calais) focuses on the bleak wartime and tales of courage and self-sacrifice in Edward the III’s year-long Siege of Calais during the Hundred Years’ War. This rarely-heard Italian bel canto work has undeservedly been absent from the operatic stage but recent revivals have shown it to be a work of great beauty and poetry. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto, which has been described as “…a remarkable libretto, the closest Cammarano ever got to real poetry, particularly in his description of the embattled city and the heartfelt pride of its citizens”

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Cast and Creative

James Westman
James Westman
Eustachio de Saint-Pierre, Mayor of Calais

Magda Gartner
Magda Gartner
Aurelio, his son

Lucia Cesaroni
Lucia Cesaroni
Eleanora

Neal Ferreira
Neal Ferreira
Giovanni d’Aire, burgher

Alan Schneider
Alan Schneider
Giacomo de Wisants, burgher

James Demler
James Demler
Pietro de Wisants, burgher

Christopher Carbin
Christopher Carbin
Armando, burgher

John Allen Nelson
John Allen Nelson
Eduardo III, King of England

Sumner Thompson
Sumner Thompson
Edmundo, English General

Deborah Selig
Deborah Selig
Isabella, Queen of England
Luke Scott
Luke Scott
Un Incognito
 
 
Gil Rose
Gil Rose
Conductor
Joshua Major
Joshua Major
Stage Director
 
 
 
 

Creative Team

Mariah Wilson, Assistant Conductor & Chorus Master
Brooke Stanton, Costume Designer
Dan Daly, Scenic Designer
Dennis Parichy, Lighting Designer
Rachel Shufelt, Hair and Make-up Designer

Chorus

Sarah Kornfeld
Kay Patterson
Jasmine Robison
Alexandra Dietrich
Katherine Maysek
Mauri Tetreault
Michael Merullo
Steven Myles
Jonathan Oakes
Ted Pales
Eduardo Ramos
RaShaun Campbell
Seth Grondin
Aaron Styles
Matthew Stansfield
Nathan Rodriguez

Supernumeraries

Jesse Martin
Sean Paul Cormier


Media

Video by Kathy Wittman / Ball Square Films