Luisa Miller is an opera that abounds in splendid moments of music and one that occupies a central role in the evolution of Verdi's dramaturgy. The opera was staged on the evening of 8th December 1849. The performance was a resounding success and the opera continued to affirm itself in further performances. This cd plays the last production staged at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, last May 2006. Luisa Miller requires great technical gifts and vocal extension of its four leading roles. Luisa (Darina Takova) is portrayed now with delicate touches now with bold strokes, in a manner that anticipates the great heroines of the popular trilogy. Rodolfo, here interpreted by Roberto Sabbatini, has a very difficult mid-high tessitura and the classical boldness of the tenor is accompanied by openly elegiac accents that had rarely before been heard in the tenor roles created by Verdi.
Il Conte di Walter Alexander Vinogradov
Rodolfo Giuseppe Sabbatini
Fderica Ursula Ferri
Wurm Arutjun Kotchinian
Miller Damiano Salerno
Luisa Darina Takova
Laura Elisabetta Martorana
Un Contadino Luca Favaron
Conductor
Maurizio Benini
Orchestra
Orchestra of the La Fenice Theatre of Venice
Chorus
Chorus of the La Fenice Theatre of Venice
Chorus master
Emanuela Di Pietro