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ROSSINI – L’EQUIVOCO STRAVAGANTE

Rossini in Wildbad’s production of Rossini’s early dramma giocoso L’equivoco stravagante staged by the festival’s director Jochen Schönleber in 2018.

Dramma giocoso in two acts (1811)
Libretto by Gaetano Gasbarri

Rossini wrote L’equivoco stravagante (‘The Curious Misunderstanding’), his first full-length opera, when he was only 19 years old. As its title suggests, the plot of this dramma giocoso offers a panoply of absurdist stagecraft with one character being led to believe that the work’s heroine is in fact a castrato trying to avoid military service. Full of his trademark buffo humour, melodious and musically buoyant, the opera ran foul of the censors and was swiftly banned, which accounts for its rarity in performances and recordings. The new edition of the score used in this production corrects numerous previous errors.

Ernestina ANTONELLA COLAIANNI Mezzo-soprano
Gamberotto GIULIO MASTROTOTARO Baritone
Buralicchio EMMANUEL FRANCO Baritone
Ermanno PATRICK KABONGO Tenor
Rosalia ELEONORA BELLOCCI Soprano
Frontino SEBASTIAN MONTI Tenor

Choir Górecki Chamber Choir / Virtuosi Brunensis
Conductor José Miguel Pérez-Sierra
Stage Director Jochen Schönleber
Film Director Philippe Ohl
Filmed on 26 and 29 July 2018 at the Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad, Germany [2.110696 / NBD0133V]
Total playing time 141 minutes
Language Italian
Subtitles Italian, English, German, Japanese, Korean
DVD NTSC 16:9 · PCM stereo · DVD 9 · Region: 0 (Worldwide)
BD HD 16:9 · PCM stereo · BD 50 · Region: A, B, C