(February 10, 2017) After the personal success on his debut in Berlin - last November at the Deutsche Oper with "The Huguenots" by Meyerbeer - Michele Mariotti rises for the first time on the podium of another great German theater: the Bayerische Staatsoper in Monaco where, Sunday, Feb. 12 at 18 (live on BR Klassik in Germany and in Italy on Rai Radio 3), he will conduct a new production of Rossini's Semiramide – which he conduct for the first time - in therendition of American film-maker David Alden, which Mariotti has recently partnered precisely on the Huguenots. "I am happy to direct for the first time Semiramide - says Michele Mariotti, who is music director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna - Apart from the Wilhelm Tell, the work with which the composer wanted to demonstrate the ability to write in a different style, Semiramis is really Rossini's masterpiece: its undisputed bel canto cathedral. And somehow also his last will. For this new production of the opera in Monaco I worked a lot with interpreters. With Joyce DiDonato, in particular, because Semiramis is a complex role: she is a guilty woman, who killed, but she is also in love, who finds out to be a mother. "

ABOUT / THE CAST

Vocal protagonists are Joyce DiDonato, in his debut in the role of the Queen of Babylon; Alex Esposito, in that of Assur; Daniela Barcellona, in the shoes of Arsaces; Lawrence Brownlee in those of Idreno. Rounding out the cast are Simone Alberghini as Oroe; Elsa Benoit as Azema; Galeano Salas in the shoes of Mitranes and Igor Tsarkov as Nino’s shadow. The Choir and Orchestra are those of the Bayerische Staatsoper.