Rossini - La Scala di Seta

Rossini - La Scala di Seta

This beautiful production by renowned opera director Michael Hampe was recorded at the exquisite Rococo Theatre in Schwetzingen Palace in May 1990. La Scala Di Seta is one of the five one-act operas - farsa giocosa - in which the young Rossini first demonstrated his operatic genius. This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival, held every Spring. The staging is perfectly suited to the screen and the cast of principals, led by David Griffith, Luciana Serra, Jane Bunnell, David Kuebler, Alberto Rinaldi, Alessandro Corbelli provide musical excellence together with the flexible Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti. Simone Young, who has since become one of the foremost opera conductors of the younger generation, appears on harpsichord and fortepiano.