Antônio Carlos Gomes: Lo Schiavo

Lo schiavo was conceived as a politically engaged work. However, the issue was rather volatile and the composer had to change the contemporary time setting to a more distant one. In Brazil the opera was a triumph, but elsewhere it failed to gain popularity and soon fell into oblivion. This recording of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari’s production documents the opera’s first performance in modern times and reveals Gomes’ flamboyant richness of melodic creativity, his sound grasp of construction, and a technical mastery of the theatrical mechanisms that are always of the highest level.

• Release date
• February 1, 2019
• Runtime
• 138 min

Cast

Svetla Vassileva Ilara Massimiliano Pisapia Américo

A

Andrea Borghini Iberê

M

Marco Puggioni Guaruco

D

Daniele Terenzi Gianfera

F

Francesco Musinu Tupinambá