‘Maria, Regina d’Inghilterra’ To Continue Odyssey Opera’s Tudor Series
By Francisco SalazarOdyssey Opera continues its Tudor-inspired season with the fully-staged production of Pacini’s “Maria, Regina d’Inghilterra.”
The opera was inspired by a play by Victor Hugo and has largely been overlooked throughout history. Gil Rose conducts the Bel Canto masterwork with Amy Shoremount-Obra as Queen Mary and rising star Alisa Jordheim as Clotilde Talbot.
In a press release, Odyssey Opera noted, “Pacini is one of the missing links in Italian opera of the first part of the 19th century. He produced more than 70 operas and yet has faded into oblivion. Pacini wrote happily within the formal conventions of Italian opera in his time; perhaps, this is why he remains largely in the shadows, especially of his colleagues: Verdi, Bellini and Donizetti.”
This is the second opera in the Tudor series the company has planned for this season. The season opened with the concert performance of Camille Saint-Saëns “Henry VIII” and continues with Arnold Rosner’s “The Chronicle of Nine,” Rossini’s “Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra,” Britten’s “Gloriana” and Edward German’s “Merrie England.”
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