Aroldo Teatro Municipal di Piacenza

Discover this rare Verdian jewel Aroldoone of the composers least performed workspremiered in 1857 in Rimini Italy The work was created in response to the censorship of Verdis 1849 Stiffelio whose tale of a protestant pastor publicly pardonning an adulterer and his wife proved too scandalous for 19thcentury Italian society In creating Aroldo Verdis librettist and collaborator Francesco Maria Piave transposed Stiffelios story and characters to the more distant setting of Great Britain at time of the Crusades and the composer took advantage of this new version to add a fourth act to the opera and to rewrite part of the first act as well as a few arias