Gioachino Rossini
Tancredi
July 28 and August 3, 2018
The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College
Dramma serio by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Gaetano Rossi
First performed 6 February 1813,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Tancredi Tamara Mumford
Amenaide Amanda Woodbury
Argirio Santiago Ballerini
Isaura Hannah Ludwig
Orbazzano Leo Radosavljevic
Roggero Stephanie Sanchez
Teatro Nuovo Chorus and Orchestra
Will Crutchfield, maestro al cembalo
Jakob Lehmann, primo violino e capo d’orchestra
Candeur virginale
Tancredi was Rossini's ninth opera but his first runaway success. It was immediately repeated wherever Italian opera was performed, and positioned him for a conquest that the novelist Stendhal, writing just a decade later, compared to Napoleon's. The score's verve, freshness, and sincerity - Stendhal spoke of its "virginal candor" - set the tone for the Romantic century, and made the opera a timeless classic.