September 15, 2013 at 3:00pm
NEC’s Jordan Hall
RIENZI, DER LETZTE DER TRIBUNEN
Grand Tragic Opera in Five Acts by Richard Wagner after the novel Cola di Rienzi by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
BOSTON PREMIERE
Wagner’s Rienzi, his first successful stage work, was inspired by the legendary fourteenth-century Roman Tribune Cola di Rienzo, who gained power through a revolt against the entrenched nobility. The opera traces the protagonist’s predictable journey from liberator to absolutism and to despotism and downfall.
“ Odyssey is off to an auspicious start.”
–The Boston Globe
Cast and Creative
Kristian Benedikt
RIENZI
Elisabete Matos
IRENE
Margaret Jane Wray
ADRIANO COLONNA
Kristopher Irmiter
KARDINAL ORVIETO
David Kravitz
PAOLO ORSINI
Stephen Salters
STEFFANO COLONNA
Ethan Bremner
BARONCELLI
Robert Honeysucker
CECCO DEL VECCHIO
Christina English
MESSENGER OF PEACE
Frank Kelley
GASTON, A DANCER
Lorelei Ensemble
BETH WILLER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Gil Rose
Conductor
PRODUCTION STAFF
Harris Ipock … Chorusmaster
Karin Hartmann Ludlow … Production Stage Manager
Veronica Haakonsen … Assistant Stage Manager
Carola Emrich-Fisher … German diction coach
Cori Ellison … Supertitle translator
Dan McGaha … Supertitle operator
