Receiving news from his mate, Giovanni (bass Andrea Papi) that the time is right for a raid on the Turks, he prepares to embark, leaving behind his lover, Medora (soprano Irina Lungu). Corrado (tenor Bruno Ribeiro) and his pirate band are based in the Aegean sea not far from the coast of Turkey. Il Corsaro is set in the early 19 th century a few decades before the time of its actual composition. This performance taken from a 2008 production, returns the Tutto Verdi series to the Teatro Regio di Parma. As such it is more of a bel canto work than those that followed. Another Verdi rarity, Il Corsaro was written using a Lord Byron poem as its source, near the end of Verdi’s early period.
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