Description
Rossini: Bianca e Falliero / Drama in two acts - Libretto by Felice Romani / PRAGUE CHAMBER CHOIR Chorus Master: Lubomír Mátl / GALICIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conductor: Renato Palumbo / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 183
UPC: 8007144335014
- Aspect Ratio : 1.77:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.84 Ounces
- Director : Jean-Louis Martinoty
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Classical, NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 3 hours and 3 minutes
- Release date : September 26, 2006
- Actors : María Bayo, Daniela Barcellona, Francesco Meli, Carlo Lepore, Renato Palumbo
- Subtitles: : Italian, English, German, French, Spanish
- Producers : Rossini Opera Festival
- Language : Unqualified
- Studio : Dynamic
- Writers : Gioachino Rossini, Felice Romani
- Number of discs : 2
Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre (English: Bianca and Falliero, or The Counsel of Three) is a two-act operatic melodramma by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani. The libretto was based on Antoine-Vincent Arnault's 1798 play Les Vénitiens, ou Blanche et Montcassin.
The opera premiered on 26 December 1819 at La Scala. Giuseppe Fioravanti, a popular basso buffo of the day and the son of composer Valentino Fioravanti, sang in the premiere. Carolina Bassi, Italian contralto considered one of the best in her day, also created a role in this opera.
The work was performed thirty times during the initial season in Milan and was performed throughout Italy and elsewhere to some extent before largely disappearing into obscurity after 1846. It was revived at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 1986 with Katia Ricciarelli, Marilyn Horne, and Chris Merritt.
The opera is considered very difficult to sing due to the intensity of its coloratura writing.
