Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of domestic drama across two generations. The witty story of a middle-aged man whose supposed young wife runs rings around him – with her own ulterior romantic purpose in mind – has long delighted and surprised audiences, not least as presented with the sparkle of its music and the virtuoso skill of its performers. Damiano Michieletto’s exhilarating production shows how contemporary the characters still are and how immediate and touching the story remains.
The soprano OLGA PERETYATKO comes from St. Petersburg. She studied at the Hanns-Eisler-Musikhochschule in Berlin and after the opera studio, joined the Hamburg State Opera. In 2007, Olga Peretyatko was a prize-winner at the Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition. Engagements have led and are leading the soprano among others, to the Komische Oper Berlin, the Deutschen Oper and Staatsoper in Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Opera de Lyon, the Theatre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, die Milan Scala, the Salzburg Festival, the New York Metropolitan Opera, theTeatro La Fenice in Venice as well as more international music theaters. Her repertoire includes works among others, like Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Violetta (La traviata), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Alcina, Gilda (Rigoletto), Adina (L‘elisir damore), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) und Elvira (I puritani). She gave her debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2013 as Gilda and also sang Elvira. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Peretyatko.en.php