An extract from a German TV production from 1972, shot on location in Sicily.
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About the plot of Gasparone: In Syracuse, Sicily, the local "podestà", Nasoni, is busy searching for the notorious robber Gasparone who is said to haunt the area. At the same time, he tries to marry his son to the young widowed Countess Carlotta, who is about to inherit a large fortune. Enter a mysterious stranger named Erminio, who saves Carlotta from an attack on her carriage, makes love to her and then does something rather disconcerting ....
**The cast:**
Countess Carlotta Arlene Saunders, soprano
Erminio Barry McDaniel, baritone
Nasoni, podestà Benno Kusche, bass
Zenobia, Carlotta's
chaperone Martha Mödl, mezzo-soprano
Benozzo, innkeeper Friedrich Lenz, Tenor
Zora, his wife, Carlotta's Britt Bern, soprano
former maid
Conductor: Heinz Wallberg
Directed by: Wolfgang Liebeneiner
25 окт 2012
