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Ali Baba

THIS OPERA IS PAST

PERFORMANCE DATES:

  • Sunday, October 20, 2019 2pm
  • Friday, October 25, 2019 7:30pm
  • Sunday, October 27, 2019 2pm

Music / Giovanni Bottesini
Libretto / Emilio Taddei

Ali Baba – Restored to Life at Opera Southwest!

With a libretto based on “Alì Babà and the Forty Thieves,” the well-known and lively story from One Thousand and One Nights,  Alì Babà was composed by Giovanni Bottesini, an Italian composer and double bass virtuoso, known as the “Paganini of the bass.” Read the synopsis.

The opera was premiered in 1871 in London, receiving considerable acclaim and numerous performances. However, later the score was lost and the opera has not been heard in well over a century. As with Opera Southwest’s Amleto (Hamlet) project, Maestro Anthony Barrese has reconstructed the score from the composer’s original manuscript, and Opera Southwest will give the work its modern American premiere.

CAST

Ali Baba / Ashraf Sewailam
Delia / Monica Yunus
Nadir / Christopher Bozeka
Aboul Hassan / Kevin Thompson
Orsocane / Darren Stokes
Morgiana / Laurel Semerdjian

Conductor / Anthony Barrese
Director/ Foad Faridzadeh

Running time: 3 hours

-English translations projected above the stage for all operas-

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