Antônio Carlos Gomes: Lo Schiavo

Antônio Carlos Gomes: Lo Schiavo (2019) is a feature film. Top cast includes Svetla Vassileva, Massimiliano Pisapia, and Andrea Borghini. The plot follows a central conflict that grows in scope as the film progresses.

Actor: Svetla Vassileva • Provider: Prime Video

Lo schiavo was conceived as a politically engaged work. However, the issue was rather volatile and the composer had to change the contemporary time setting to a more distant one. In Brazil the opera was a triumph, but elsewhere it failed to gain popularity and soon fell into oblivion. This recording of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari’s production documents the opera’s first performance in modern times and reveals Gomes’ flamboyant richness of melodic creativity, his sound grasp of construction, and a technical mastery of the theatrical mechanisms that are always of the highest level.