Chamber opera

Chamber opera is a project which proposes the listening of a large number of operas in a chamber version, with a musical ensemble which goes from 13 to 25 elements.
Often told by a narrator in the place of one of the characters of the opera, or enhanced by the presence of dancers, chamber opera allows the public to come in contact with lyric opera still without a staging, which is reduced to a few of essential elements.


Chamber opera is performed as a concert or with reduced staging, and represents a new way to perform opera, to spread her and to know her also in musical circles not usually devoted to opera.
Chamber opera has a very flexible composition still remaining faithful to the original score: operas can be performed in a concert version or with staging and reduced staging, with a variable number of singers, and with or without narrator.
The chamber opera ideated by the Ensemble Giordano suggests a chamber version of Bizet’s Carmen (performance Story of Carmen for instrumental ensemble, 6 singers, 2 dancers, a narrator), of Rossini’s Barber of Seville (performance Figaro – the true story of a barber, for instrumental ensemble, 5 singers, optional narrator), of Verdi’s La Traviata (performance Violetta, or the Traviata for instrumental ensemble, 3 singers, narrator), of Verdi’s Rigoletto (performance Rigoletto, the jester, for instrumental ensemble, 4 singers, narrator).