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Otto mesi in due ore o sia Gli esiliati in Siberia

Teatro di San Carlo, Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy

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Important Info

Type: Opera

City: Naples, Italy

Starts at: 20:00

Acts: 3

Intervals: 1

Duration: 2h 40min

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

Can I choose my seats?

Overview

Rarely performed yet rich in musical invention, Gaetano Donizetti’s Otto mesi in due ore, ossia Gli esiliati in Siberia returns to the stage in a new production at Teatro di San Carlo. This remarkable opera offers audiences the opportunity to rediscover one of the composer’s lesser-known gems, combining the lyrical elegance of bel canto with a gripping story of devotion, endurance, and hope.

Based on a popular nineteenth-century tale, the opera follows the courageous young Elisabetta, who undertakes an extraordinary journey across the frozen landscapes of Siberia to save her unjustly exiled father. Facing harsh conditions, danger, and seemingly impossible obstacles, she is sustained by unwavering determination and faith. Her remarkable odyssey becomes a moving testament to the power of love, family, and perseverance in the face of adversity.

Created as a new production for Teatro di San Carlo, this staging brings fresh theatrical insight to a work that deserves a place alongside Donizetti’s best-known operas.

New production of the Teatro di San Carlo

History

Premiere of this production: 13 May 1827, Teatro Nuovo, Naples

Otto mesi in due ore ossia Gli esiliati in Siberia (Eight Months in Two Hours or The Exiles in Siberia) is an opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni. The original story comes from the 1806 novel, Elisabeth, ou Les exilés de Sibérie (Elisabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia), written by Sophie Ristaud Cottin. Luigi Marchionni's subsequent play, La figlia dell’esiliato, ossia Otto mesi in due ore (The Daughter of the Exile, or Eight Months in Two Hours), first performed in Italy in 1820, was the more immediate basis for Gilardoni's libretto.

Synopsis

Act 1
Saimika, Siberia

Having been wrongly exiled, Count Stanislao Potoski, his wife, Countess Fedora, and their daughter, Elisabetta, are living in a ramshackle dwelling attached to an abbey. Elisabetta vows to undertake an arduous journey on foot to Moscow to seek a pardon from the Tsar.

Act 2
The shores of the Kama River

Elisabetta is befriended by Tartar hordes, who had initially threatened her but were won over by her innocence and virtue. She also meets Ivano, the man responsible for her parents' exile, who is now working as a ferryman at the river. When the river floods, Elisabetta saves herself by making a raft from the wooden tomb of Ivano's dead daughter.

Act 3
A grand chamber in the Kremlin

The Grand Marshal, who is also partly responsible for the Potoski family's exile, tries to cause trouble for Elisabetta. Nevertheless, she manages to reach the Tsar, who in the meantime has received a letter from his messenger Michele (a friend of Elisabetta and the son of her nurse) explaining the injustice of their exile. The Tsar pardons the whole family who are then reunited in Moscow.

Venue Info

Teatro di San Carlo - Naples
Via San Carlo, 98

The Teatro Reale di San Carlo (Royal Theatre of Saint Charles), as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro di San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito. It is the oldest continuously active venue for opera in the world, having opened in 1737, decades before either Milan's La Scala or Venice's La Fenice. The opera season runs from late January to May, with the ballet season taking place from April to early June. The house once had a seating capacity of 3,285, but has now been reduced to 1,386 seats. Given its size, structure and antiquity, it was the model for theatres that were later built in Europe.

Important Info

Type: Opera

City: Naples, Italy

Starts at: 20:00

Acts: 3

Intervals: 1

Duration: 2h 40min

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