Edgar

Venue: Teatro Regio Torino. Organizer: Teatro Regio Torino Edgar | Giacomo Puccini Edgar is many first times. It is the first time that Puccini tackles a libretto of broad scope, after his debut in reduced format with Le Villi. It is the first time he sets to music a subject set in the medieval era, with a chivalric and military tone that will remain unique in his output. And it is the first time that he gives a woman the role of antagonistic virago, with the terrible (already from the name) Tigrana: a soprano of similar ferocity will arrive only with Turandot, at the end of his artistic journey. Sensitive to the fashionable verist language, the young Puccini experiments with the chorus, tries new paths with the orchestra, tests his infallible instinct in creating those typical melodies capable of taking your breath away, as can be heard in many pages of this opera, which is, to date, the least performed in his catalogue. First performed in 1889, Edgar was later reworked by its author into a definitive version, which is the one normally staged. The Regio instead offers the listening of the original version, in a new produc