Giuseppe Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes

Les vêpres siciliennes, like the similarly epic Don Carlos, was conceived as a grand opéra for Paris and is driven by the tensions between private passions and public politics. Originally set during Sicily's 13th-century uprising against French rule, in Christof Loy's staging for the Netherlands Opera the action is transposed to a 1940s world of sudden violence and shadowy double-dealing. Imaginatively cast and idiomatically conducted, the performance presents this magnificent score in its entirety, including the allegorical ballet The Four Seasons.

• Release date
• October 25, 2011
• Runtime
• 232 min
• Director
• Christof Loy

Cast

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Barbara Haveman

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Burkhard Fritz

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Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester

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Bálint Szabó