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La forza del destino, melodramma in four acts : 1869 version, Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Antonio Ghislanzoni ; new production by the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ; director, Carlus Padrissa ; video director, Tiziano Mancini

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La forza del destino, melodramma in four acts : 1869 version, Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Antonio Ghislanzoni ; new production by the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ; director, Carlus Padrissa ; video director, Tiziano Mancini
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La forza del destino
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Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Antonio Ghislanzoni ; new production by the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ; director, Carlus Padrissa ; video director, Tiziano Mancini
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melodramma in four acts : 1869 version
Summary
Giuseppe Verdi traveled to St Petersburg in 1862 to premiere La Forza del Destino, which had been commissioned by the city's Imperial Theatre. The source material appealed to the composer's sense of tragic intensity and the ruthlessness of destiny. The local audience was accustomed to eighteenth-century Italian opera as well as French grand opřa, and the resulting work is a synthesis of aristocratic drama and popular comedy. In 1869 he revised the work so that it ends in death and transfiguration. This critically admired production of the revised version is conducted by Zubin Mehta, in a new staging that was ₁enriched by some brilliant artists' (Lyric Opera Journal)
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