Il campanello di notte

The International Opera Academy “ASTANA OPERA”

PRESENTS

PREMIERE

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

Director: Nikolay KULIKOV

Set Designer: Malika TULEGENOVA

Costume Designer: Dariga TAISHIKOVA

Teachers- repetiteurs:            Zhupar GABDULLINA, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

                                             Azamat ZHELTYRGUZOV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

LEAD ROLES AND PERFORMERS:

Don Annibale Pistacchio, an apothecary: Valery SELIVANOV/ Shyngys RASYLKHAN

Serafina, his wife: Firuza RAKHMETOVA / Leila ALAMANOVA

Enrico: Jurica Jurasich KAPUN / Bekulan YERBOLATULY

Madama Rosa, Serafina's mother: Anastasia REMESKOVА

Spiridone, Don Annibale’s servant: Nursultan ANUARBEK / Merei KADYRKHANOV

STUDENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL OPERA ACADEMY “ASTANA OPERA”

THE ASTANA OPERA ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS

Tickets purchased at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre “Astana Opera” are subject to exchange and refund only in cases of cancellation or postponement of performances. In all other cases, no refunds or exchanges will be made.