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.