Verdi La battaglia di Legnano opera to a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano. Directed 2012 by Ruggero Cappuccio at the Teatro Lirico "Giuseppe Verdi" di Trieste. Stars Enrico Giuseppe Iori (Federico Barbarossa), Francesco Musini (1st Console di Milano), Federico Benetti (2nd Console di Milano), Gabriele Sagona (Il Podestà di Como), Leonardo López Linares (Rolando), Dimitra Theodossiou (Lida), Andrew Richards (Arrigo), Giovanni Guagliardo (Marcovaldo), Sharon Pierfederici (Imelda), Alessandro de Angelis (Un Araldo), and Nicola Pascoli (Uno Scudiero di Arrigo). Boris Brott conducts the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico "Giuseppe Verdi" di Trieste (Chorus Master Paolo Vero). Sets and costumes by Carlo Savi with the participation of Mimmo Paladino and Matthew Spender; lighting by Nino Napoletano. Directed for TV by Tiziano Mancini. Sung in Italian. Released 2013, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA
Verdi was probably the only great composer of music who was also a "father" of a county in that he supported the Risogimento, or reunification of modern Italy. According to the keepcase information for this title, La battaglia di Legnano is the only opera by Verdi to have a direct bearing on the Risorgimento through patriotic choruses "with which Verdi stirred up opinion in favor of a united Italy.”
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