Released:
2019-02-01

Overview:
Lo schiavo was conceived as a politically engaged work. However, the issue was rather volatile and the composer had to change the contemporary time setting to a more distant one. In Brazil the opera was a triumph, but elsewhere it failed to gain popularity and soon fell into oblivion. This recording of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari’s production documents the opera’s first performance in modern times and reveals Gomes’ flamboyant richness of melodic creativity, his sound grasp of construction, and a technical mastery of the theatrical mechanisms that are always of the highest level.

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Runtime:
2h 18min

Genre:

• Cast:
• 
  Svetla Vassileva
  as
  Ilara
• 
  Massimiliano Pisapia
  as
  Américo
• 
  Andrea Borghini
  as
  Iberê
• 
  Marco Puggioni
  as
  Guaruco
• 
  Daniele Terenzi
  as
  Gianfera