Various - Donizetti:Anna Bolena

This production of Anna Bolena faithfully meets the musical vision proposed by Fabio Biondi. The mise-en-sc�ne, therefore, excludes any explicit reference to the plot's historical time, and the events have been set at the beginning of the 1800s, when Donizetti's opera was premi�red. This shift in time was meant to match, visually, the important musical reconstruction made by Fabio Biondi: just as he tapered down the orchestral forces to 19th-century proportions and conformed to the performing practice of the day - using, for example, the fortepiano as a concertante instrument, which created surprisingly new sound effects compared to traditional versions, often still too linked to the late-romantic symphonic model - we have transformed the world of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII into a metaphor of 19th-century society, in which an unhappy woman, an ill-fated, condemned and spurned woman earns the crown of martyrdom and the halo of sainthood.