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I Vespri Siciliani
I Vespri Siciliani © V. Baranovsky
This masterpiece of the once-popular French grand opera genre, with its characteristic vividness of historic background and an obligatory ballet divertissement in the third act of the standard five, is not a common title for any opera house of the world. The staging by Arnaud Bernard transposes the setting from the 13th century Sicily to New York in the 1920s – an era glorified by films like Godfather and Once upon a Time in America. The medieval Sicilians’ guerilla against the French invaders transforms seamlessly into the Italian immigrants’ struggle for the chance to live their American dream.
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