DVD + Blu-Ray:
Boito: Nerone from Bregenz Festival

Boito´s opera Nerone is here available for the first time on DVD/Blu-ray! "Musically it´s brilliant.“ (Wiener Zeitung)

Arrigo Boito's libretti, including those for Giuseppe Verdis's Otello and Falstaff, are some of the most outstanding achievements in operatic history and his own completed opera Mefistofele is present on the opera stages. On his opera Nerone Boito started working in 1862, but struggeled to complete it immediately, leaving it unfinished for several decades. It became his life's work and it was only after his death that the conductor Arturo Toscanini created a performable version. The world premiere was held at La Scala Milan in 1924. Boito´s opera Nerone is here available for the first time on DVD/Blu-ray "Musically it´s brilliant.“ (Wiener Zeitung) and "Rafael Rojas triumphs in the murderous role of Nero, Lucio Gallo (Mago) is a great prince of darkness“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung).
World premiere recording on DVD/Blu-ray!

Original title Boito: Nerone from Bregenz Festival
Genre Opera
Recording location Bregenz Festival, August 2021
Duration 149 mins
Production Company A co-production of ORF III and UNITEL in cooperation with Bregenz Festival
Composer Arrigo Boito
Orchestra / Band Wiener Symphoniker
Conductor Dirk Kaftan
Choir Prague Philharmonic Choir
Chorus Master Lukas Vasilek
Stage Director Olivier Tambosi
Soloist Rafael Rojas, Lucio Gallo, Brett Polegato, Svetlana Aksenova, Alessandra Volpe