Conductor - Nicola Luisotti
Director - Gabriele Lavia
Attila, King of the Huns - Ferruccio Furlanetto
Uldino, Attila's Breton Slave - Nathaniel Peake*
Odabella, daughter of the Lord of Aquileia - Lucrecia Garcia
Ezio, a Roman general - Quinn Kelsey*
Foresto, a knight of Aquileia - Diego Torre*
Leone (Pope Leo I) - Samuel Ramey
The San Francisco Opera reran last weekend Verdi's Attila from 2012. It is a fabulous baritone feast with Furlanetto, Kelsey and Ramey. I'm sorry if you missed it.
The sets all relate to interiors of theaters. You may feel free to make up a reason for this. This version seems to be shortened. A film played in one of the theaters, and this has been omitted. In house one sees everything in full screen, while in a film a full screen is unusual. This diminishes the effect of the theater interiors and increases the importance of the singers. It's much better this way.
Here's my review when I saw it live.
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