KuhlauDilfeng3's video: George Whitefield Chadwick - The Padrone 1912

George Whitefield Chadwick (November 13, 1854 – April 4, 1931) was an American composer. Work: The Padrone (1912) tragic opera in two parts. Presented to the Met in 1912 but rejected and never performed during Chadwick's liftime. Libretto: David Kilburn Stevens Marietta - Alexandra Gruber-Malkin, soprano Catani - Thomas Woodman, baritone Francesca - Jane Dutton, mezzo-soprano Marco - Barton Green, tenor Orchestra: Waterbury Symphony Conductor: Leif Bjaland World premiere performance September 29, 1995 In-house recording. Synopsis from the review in "Opera News" in January, 1996: "Chadwick's score (submitted to the Met in 1912 and swiftly rejected) tells a verismo-influenced story of Italian immigrants indentured to the patron who has paid their way to America. Marietta plans to marry Marco, who is to arrive from Italy the next day. The patron, Catani, wants her for himself and conspires with her sister, Francesca, who was Marco's lover in Italy, to prevent his entering the country; she knows he has just been released from prison and is traveling under a false identity. She jealously betrays Marco to the immigration officials as he arrives, and they send him back. Remorseful, she begs her sister' forgiveness, blaming the evil influence of Catani. Marietta kills Catani."