Respighi: La Fiamma

Release Date: 2024-09-28

Overview: Christof Loy continues his exploration of early 20th-century opera at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Respighi's rarely heard La fiamma. Imposing choruses and sweeping tableaux drive a drama of suspicion, desire and public frenzy, heightened here by Carlo Rizzi's musical direction and a cast led by Olesya Golovneva and Georgy Vasiliev. Premiered in 1934, the work mirrors a society sliding towards authoritarianism, its show trial carrying an unsettling emotional charge. Respighi's score moves beyond the colours of the Trilogia romana, blending impressionist shimmer, Russian influence and a renewed fascination with Italian Renaissance sound worlds.

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Cast

Olesya Golovneva

as Silvana

Georgy Vasiliev

as Donello

Ivan Inverardi

as Basilio

Martina Serafin

as Eudossia

Doris Soffel

as Agnese di Cervia