Viva la Mamma!

Viva la Mamma! (An opera where the prima donna is a baritone?)

First seen in Naples in 1827, this farce of a “theatre within a theatre” narrates the mishaps of a second-rate opera company as it stages the great serious drama Romolo ed Ersilia in a provincial theatre. The unbearable tensions between the two lead singers are finally resolved with the decisive intervention of one of their mothers. The co-production by Ópera de Lyon along with the Grand Theâtre de Genève and Teatro Real is brought to life by Laurent Pelly, a tireless champion of Donizetti's comedies.

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Top Cast

Carlos Álvarez

As Mamma Agata

Nino Machaidze

As Daria, la primadonna

Borja Quiza

As Procolo

Xabier Anduaga

As Guglielmo, primo tenore

Sylvia Schwartz

As Luigia, la seconda donna

Pietro Di Bianco

As Biscroma Strappaviscere

Enric Martínez-Castignani

As Cesare Salsapariglia

Pietro Micinski

As El empresario

Luis López Navarro

As El director escénico

Carol García

As Pippetto