October 26, 2017 7:30pm
October 28, 2017 7:30pm
Huntington Avenue Theatre
L’ASSEDIO DI CALAIS (THE SIEGE OF CALAIS)
By Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano based on Luigi Marchionni’s play L’assedio di Calais
BOSTON PREMIERE
Sung in Italian with English titles
Donizetti’s L’assedio di Calais (The Siege of Calais) focuses on the bleak wartime and tales of courage and self-sacrifice in Edward the III’s year-long Siege of Calais during the Hundred Years’ War. This rarely-heard Italian bel canto work has undeservedly been absent from the operatic stage but recent revivals have shown it to be a work of great beauty and poetry. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto, which has been described as “…a remarkable libretto, the closest Cammarano ever got to real poetry, particularly in his description of the embattled city and the heartfelt pride of its citizens.”
“Odyssey Opera offered a rare treat at the Huntington Avenue Theatre.”
–The Boston Globe
Cast and Creative
James Westman
EUSTACHIO DE SAINT-PIERRE, MAYOR OF CALAIS
Magda Gartner
AURELIO, HIS SON
Lucia Cesaroni
ELEANORA
Neal Ferreira
GIOVANNI D’AIRE, BURGHER
Alan Schneider
GIACOMO DE WISANTS, BURGHER
James Demler
PIETRO DE WISANTS, BURGHER
Christopher Carbin
ARMANDO, BURGHER
John Allen Nelson
EDUARDO III, KING OF ENGLAND
Sumner Thompson
EDMUNDO, ENGLISH GENERAL
Deborah Selig
ISABELLA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND
Luke Scott
UN INCOGNITO
Joshua Major
STAGE DIRECTOR
Gil Rose
CONDUCTOR
PRODUCTION TEAM
Brooke Stanton…Costume Designer
Dan Daly…Scenic Designer
Dennis Parichy…Lighting Designer
Rachel Shufelt…Hair and Make-up Designer
