Stiffelio to open at Sarasota Opera
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TUESDAY MAR 11, 2025 |
Last seen in Sarasota in 2005, Verdi’s opera about infidelity and forgiveness, Stiffelio, opens Saturday, March 15. Written just before Rigoletto, this long-neglected, emotionally charged work is now recognized as an important opera by Verdi. Stiffelio, a Protestant minister, returns from a mission abroad to be confronted by his wife's infidelity. He faces his wife's transgression, battling his all-too human emotions with his religious faith. The opera is based on the French play Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois and is more realistic than other more melodramatic works Verdi had produced. Operatic subjects in Italy were under strict censorship in the 1850s, and the authorities in Trieste, where the opera was first seen, insisted on many changes. Verdi made several revisions but ultimately withdrew the opera.
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