Il campanello di notte

The International Opera Academy “ASTANA OPERA”

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Gaetano Donizetti

Il campanello di notte

One-act opera buffa

Based on the original libretto French vaudeville

Premiere at the Neapolitan Teatro Nuovo: 1 June 1836

Premiere at the Astana Opera House: 11-12 April 2024

Performed in Italian

(accompanied by synchronised supertitles in Kazakh and Russian)

The spring premiere of the one-act opera buffa Il campanello di notte by Gaetano Donizetti will delight the audience, featuring students of the International Opera Academy “ASTANA OPERA”.

Il campanello is an opera buffa written by the composer in 1836 to his own libretto, the main idea of which was inspired by reading a French vaudeville. Not all of Gaetano Donizetti’s more than seventy operas are equally well-known. Il campanello is less popular than well-known masterpieces of the genre; however, musically and especially vocally, the opera is on par with his best works (L'elisir d'amore, Don Pasquale), which, among others, adorn the repertoire of the Astana Opera House.

Synopsis

The events of the opera unfold over the course of one night in the home of an old apothecary who has married a young girl. The idyll of the newlyweds is persistently disrupted by the flighty lover of the young wife. Continuously ringing a bell, Enrico annoys the newlyweds, appearing in various guises with the obvious intention of preventing the apothecary Annibale and his wife, the beauty Serafina, being alone together. However, the cunning tricks of passionate Enrico are just one of the fascinating plot points of the performance...

PRODUCTION TEAM:

Conductor: Ruslan BAIMURZIN

Music Editor: Alikhan IDRISSOV

Director: Nikolay KULIKOV

Set Designer: Gulmira ISEMGAZIEVA

Costume Designers: Dariga TAISHIKOVA, Nikolay KULIKOV

Chief Chorus Master: Yerzhan DAUTOV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Pianists-Tutors: Dina MIRMANOVA, Zhanar AKHMETOVA

Stage Managers: Altynganym AKHMETOVA, Ainur KHALELOVA, Mansiya YESTEKOVA

Teachers-repetiteurs: Zhupar GABDULLINA, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Azamat ZHELTYRGUZOV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

STUDENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL OPERA ACADEMY “ASTANA OPERA”

THE ASTANA OPERA ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS