This week’s operatic offering from Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin goes out as a request. Our Own Camille asked for (and got) a little Mercadante in the mix, so here’s a live performance of I briganti from 2012.

Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870): I briganti

Virtuosi Brunenses
Camerata Bach Chor Posen
Antonino Fogliani, conductor
Rossini in Wildbad
14 July 2012

Massimiliano, conte di Moor – Bruno Praticò
Ermano – Maxim Mironov
Corrado – Vittorio Prato
Amelia d’Edelreich – Petya Ivanova
Teresa – Rosa Fiocco
Bertrando – Atanas Mladenov
Rollero – Jesús Ayllón Guerrero

I briganti (libretto by Jacopo Crescini) is based on Die Räuber by Schiller, which also serves as the source for Verdi’s I masnadieri.

Photo: Patrick Pfeiffer.

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