The collaboration between M° Arrivabeni and the Opéra de Marseille has been going on since his debut in this theatere, in 2004, with Il Turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini, and continued up to the 23/24 season with Rigoletto (Verdi, 2006), La Straniera (Bellini, 2013), Moïse et Pharaon (Rossini, 2014), I Due Foscari (Verdi, 2015), Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky, 2017), La Favorite (Donizetti, 2017), Lohengrin (Wagner, 2018) to name chronologically a few.
With a libretto by Temistocle Solera based on Zacharias Werner’s tragedy Attila, König der Hunnen, the Verdian masterpiece had its first performance in Venice, was on March 17th, 1846, at Teatro La Fenice.
The last performance of Attila at the Opéra de Marseille was on April 4th, 2010.
Alongside the bass-baritone Ildebrando D’ARCANGELO, on the stage of the Opéra de Marseille will step Csilla BOROSS (Odabella), replacing Angela Meade, who was initially announced, Juan Jesús RODRÍGUEZ (Ezio), Antonio POLI (Foresto), Louis MORVAN (Léon) and Arnaud ROSTIN-MAGNIN (Uldino).
M° Arrivabeni will be back to the Opera de Marseille for Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi in June 2024, with Marta Torbidoni, Enea Scala & Gezim Myshketa in the main roles, in a production by Waut Koeken.