Gino Marinuzzi was a great conductor and composer whose operatic experience made his own theatrical work extremely effective. Composed in Marinuzzi’s signature post-Romantic ‘grand style’, Palla de’ Mozzi was hugely successful in its day and is considered a masterpiece of 20th-century Italian opera. Making ample use of symphonic writing and rich characterisation, the opera tells the dramatic and ultimately apocalyptic story of Giovanni de’ Medici’s militia, the ‘Black Bands’, commanded by the imaginary figure of Palla de’ Mozzi. This acclaimed Cagliari production was summed up in Libero as ‘something rarely heard … a synthesis of the entire history of music’.

Artists

Elia Fabbian (Palla de' Mozzi), Leonardo Caimi (Signorello), Francesco Verna (Il Montelabro), Francesca Tiburzi (Anna Bianca), Cristian Siatta (Il Vescovo), Andrea Galli (Il Mancino), Murat Can Guverm (Giomo), Matteo Loi (Spadaccia), Luca Dall'Amico (Niccolo), Guiseppe Raimondo (Straccaguerra), Alesssandro Busi (Il Capo Dei Lanzi), Elena Schirru/Lara Rotili (Due Suore), Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Giuseppe Grazioli