Mezzo-soprano Angela Brower about Donizetti's Roberto Devereux | Dutch National Opera

The story of the love between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex, concludes the Tudor Trilogy, as it is known, by the Italian belcanto composer Gaetano Donizetti.

Stage director Jetske Mijnssen and conductor Enrique Mazzola will be completing the life story of Elizabeth I with Roberto Devereux, after having previously shown her as a child in Anna Bolena and as an adult at the peak of her reign in Maria Stuarda. In Roberto Devereux, Elizabeth’s struggle at the end of her life is, above all, with herself.

Barno Ismatullaeva will sing the demanding role of Elizabeth. She possesses not only a warm, creamy voice, but also a charismatic stage personality. The role of Sara Nottingham, Elizabeth’s rival in love, will be sung by the warm mezzo-soprano Angela Brower. Ismael Jordi will once again take on the tenor role in this concluding opera in the trilogy.

Performance information

Lyric tragedy in three acts
Sung in Italian

Libretto – Salvadore Cammarano

Musical direction – Enrique Mazzola
Stage direction – Jetske Mijnssen
Set design – Ben Baur
Costume design – Klaus Bruns
Lighting design – Cor van den Brink
Dramaturgy – Luc Joosten

Elisabetta – Barno Ismatullaeva
Duca di Nottingham – Nikolai Zemlianskikh
Sara, duchessa di Nottingham – Angela Brower
Roberto Devereux – Ismael Jordi
Lord Cecil – Thando Mjandana
Sir Gualtiero Raleigh – Mark Kurmanbayev*
Un Cavaliere – Peter Arink
Un famigliare di Nottingham – Sander Heutinck

* Dutch National Opera Studio

Chorus of Dutch National Opera
Chorus master Edward Ananian-Cooper

Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

Coproduction with Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia (Valencia) and Teatro San Carlo (Naples)

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