First performance at Teatro alla Scala

Teatro alla Scala Chorus and Orchestra
Salzburger Festspiele Production

Running Time: 2 hours 53 minutes intermission included

Conductor : Daniel Harding
Staging : Peter Stein
Sets : Ferdinand Wögerbauer
Costume designer : Anna Maria Heinreich
Lights : Joachim Barth

CAST

Emma : Anett Fritsch
Florinda : Dorothea Röschmann
Maragond : Marie-Claude Chappuis
Fierrabras : Bernard Richter
König Karl : Tomasz Konieczny or Sebastian Pilgrim ( 27,30 June 2018
Roland : Markus Werba
Eginhard : Peter Sonn
Boland : Lauri Vasar

NOTES ON THE PERFORMANCE

Long neglected, in recent years Franz Schubert’s operatic production has garnered new support from many, and above all, from Claudio Abbado. The heroic-romantic work Fierrabras is set in the era of the Charlemagne's expedition to Spain, which set out to reclaim the relics taken by the Moors. For his return to La Scala, Daniel Harding guides an exceptional cast – starring Dorothea Röschmann, Anett Fritsch, Markus Werba and Bernard Richter – through this work of awe-inspiring beauty, while the fairytale atmosphere of the story is entrusted to the creative genius of director Peter Stein.