Ernani @ Saratota
This the third of their four opera productions of the season: a lesser known but the most wonderful one.
Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) wrote this based on Victor Huge’s 1830 Hernani. The opera was premiered in 1844 in Venice.
The drama is set in 16th-century Spain, a tragic love story between the titular character, a former noble who became a bandit after being banished, and a young woman named Donna Sol de Silva, who has two other suitors, namely her uncle Don Ruy Gomez and Don Carlos …
