Fedora • Umberto Giordano • opera • live streaming • new production
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Directed by: David McVicar
Stage: Charles Edwards
Costumes: Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Design: Adam Silverman
Estimated duration: 2 hours 25 minutes (including one intermission)
Cast: Sonja Jončeva (Fedora), Rosa Feola (Olga), Piotr Beczała (Loris Ipanoff), Artur Ruciński (De Siriex)
After a quarter of a century, Giordano's passionate drama Fedora returns to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Sonja Jončeva sings the title role of a nineteenth-century princess who falls in love with the murderer of her fiance, Count Loris, played by tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola will play Fedora's friend and confidante Countess Olga, and baritone Artur Ruciński will sing the diplomat De Siriex. David McVicar's elaborate direction uses sets that gradually fold away to reveal different locations: a palace in St. Petersburg, a salon in Paris, and a picturesque chalet in the Swiss Alps.
