Name: Lucio Silla
Start: 2021-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Prairie Lakes Theater

Organization

Conductor

Adriano Spampanato

Stage director

Cathy Dunn

Assistant Director

Edson Melendez​​

Assistant Conductor

Taichi Fukumura​

Tenor

Jacob Rivera

Lucio Silla

Soprano

Jade Ferrell

Giunia

Emily Tiberi

Nicolle Hendzel

Alexandra Kzeski

Cecilio

Bruno Rivera

Rachel Hahn

Nara Song

Lucio Cinna

Rebecca Regan

Jennifer O’Brien

Yui Futaeda

Celia

Holly Thiemann

Michaela Larsen

Charles M. Anderson

Aufidio

William Fishwick

Chicago Summer Opera

Lucio Silla -  (Lucius Sulla)

Des Plaines

United States

Prairie Lakes Theater

Public

Lucius Sulla

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

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Choir

Orchestra

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

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Writer

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Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Singer

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Baritone

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

In 79 BC, Lucio Silla has achieved autocratic power in Rome through violence and intimidation and is backed by a supportive Senate. His fiercest enemy, the noble Senator Cecilio, has been exiled, but is believed dead thanks to Silla’s ability to shape public narrative; Silla covets Giunia, Cecilio’s betrothed, for himself. Silla attempts to follow his sister Celia’s advice to win Giunia over with kindness, but the threat of noncompliance lingers when he tries to woo her. Giunia, whose father was also killed in Silla’s ascent to power, rejects the autocrat, choosing allegiance to her father and Cecilio. This rejection provides Silla with another excuse to choose tyranny: he declares that she will die.

Meanwhile, Cecilio has secretly returned to Rome and reunites with Giunia by her father’s tomb. When Cecilio’s presence is discovered, Silla again chooses tyranny, declaring that Cecilio will be put to death. Giunia, Celia, and Cinna – Cecilio’s friend and the object of Celia’s affections – seek a solution to Silla’s tyrannical behavior and Cecilio’s fate, effectively debating the value and efficacy of vengeance, persuasion, and honor under oppression. Will Silla continue his bloody and tyrannical reign or will justice win the day? The lieto fine, like many in 18th century opera, can be hard for today’s audiences to accept and is sometimes subverted by staging and production choices. Despite these contemporary interpretive tendencies, this production preserves the opera’s original intent, celebrating honor and bravery in the face of autocracy as well as the power of love to persevere and overcome tyranny and cruelty.

Composed when Mozart was just 16 with librettist Giovanni de Gamerra, Lucio Silla is the third Mozart opera commissioned by Milan. The three-act opera seria largely follows the genre’s conventions but lightly pushes musical bounds, blurring standard delineations with several accompanied recitatives and less common aria structures.

English

Lucius Sulla by Mozart, From (2021/2021), Directed by Cathy Dunn,, Conductor Adriano Spampanato, Prairie Lakes Theater, Des Plaines, United States

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