This is the post-produced version of NOSTALGIA at La Monnaie / De Munt.

PART 2. Late 2000s. A opening in a plush art gallery. Among the hand-picked guests, Carlo, Giuseppe and Lorenzo, three old friends, meet again after many years. Within the installation on display, a documentary showing footage of their revolutionary youth is being screened. Each of them seems to remember that time differently, but they do share one feeling: the shadow of Laura, who disappeared without a trace forty years earlier, still haunts them…

La Monnaie’s ambitious, two-part production brings together musical highlights from the sixteen first operas of Giuseppe Verdi to tell a new story. We meet three friends during two key years of their lives: the protest years after May 1968 and a reunion forty years later. Separated by time but linked by their shared past, these friends take stock of what remains of the unrest, violence and idealism of their youthful years, and try to uncover the truth behind an unsolved mystery. The project unfolds over the course of two separate opera performances, Rivoluzione and Nostalgia. With compelling arias, emblematic overtures and such memorable choral parts as ‘Va, pensiero’ from Nabucco, these performances will take us to the heart of Verdi’s musical genius.

Full performance streamed LIVE on OperaVision on 30 March 2024 at 15:00 CET and available until 30 September 2024 at 12:00 CET: https://operavision.eu/performance/no...

CAST

Carlo
Scott Hendricks

Giuseppe
Giovanni Battista Parodi

Lorenzo
Dennis Rudge

Donatella
Helena Dix

Virginia
Gabriela Legun

Icilio
Paride Cataldo

Laura
Saténik Khourdoian

Orchestra
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

Chorus
La Monnaie Chorus
La Monnaie Choral Academy

Music
Giuseppe Verdi

Conductor
Carlo Goldstein

Script, direction, sets & video
Krystian Lada

Costume
Adrian Stapf

Light
Aleksandr Prowaliński

Choreographer
Michiel Vandevelde

Set collaborator
Łukasz Misztal

Video collaborator
Jérémy Adonis

Chorus master
Emmanuel Trenque

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