Un giorno di regno

Verdi Un giorno di regno opera to a libretto by Felice Romani. Directed 2012 by Pier Luigi Pizzi at the Teatro Regio di Parma Verdi Festival. Stars Guido Loconsolo (Il Cavaliere di Belfiore), Andrea Porta (Il Barone di Kelbar), Anna Caterina Antonacci (La Marchesa Del Poggio), Alessandra Marianelli (Giulietta Di Kelbar), Ivan Magrì (Edoardo di Sanval), Paolo Bordogna (Il Signor La Rocca), Ricardo Mirabelli (Il Conte Ivrea), and Seung Hwa Paek (Delmonte). Donato Renzetti conducts the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma (Chorus Master Martino Faggiani). Set and costumes by Pier Luigi Pizzi; choreography by Luca Veggetti; lighting by Vincenzo Raponi. Directed for TV by Tiziano Mancini. Sung in Italian. Released 2012, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.