Performance

Venue	Southbank Centre
	Other spaces: Royal Festival Hall, RFH, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Tuff Nutt Jazz Club
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	31st May 1999
To	2nd June 1999
What is currently on at Southbank Centre (V423)

Un giomo di regno (King for a Day)

T445157748
Written during the sudden illness and consequent death of his first wife, it is a melodrama giocoso in two acts and is surprisingly comic considering the tragic personal circumstances under which it was written. 'King for a Day' ('Un Giorno di Regno') was Verdi's second opera, and his only other comedy apart from 'Falstaff'. In order to distract attention from the real king, a French chevalier assumes the identity of the king of Poland and becomes 'king for a day' - causing comic havoc in the love lives and dynastic plans of his unwitting hosts and their progeny. The score is full of the young Verdi's fresh, irresistible melodies.

Music

Verdi

Archive :: production:T445157748, opera or operetta:S2116, venue:V423
Current production:Work

Production details

Concert performance

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Company

Company	Royal Opera
Conductor	Maurizio Benini
Performer	Vladimir Chernov (Belfiore)
Performer	John Del Carlo (Kelbar)
Performer	Irene Tsirakidis (Marchesa del Poggio)
Performer	Susanne Mentzer (Giulietta di Kelbar)
Performer	Carlo Scibelli (Edordo di Sanvel)
Performer	Donald Maxwell (La Rocca)
Performer	Jeffrey Stewart (Ivrea)
Performer	Philip Sheffield (Delmonte)

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