Italian
Director Sandro Sequi Dies, April 14, 1998
By Stefano Curti, published in Playbill.
Rome born Sequi, 65, was one of Italy's most prolific and best known theatre directors. His credits include memorable productions of Goldoni's Il Campiello, Shakespeare's As You Like It, Strindberg's The Dance of Death and Marivaux's The Surprise of Love. He worked with many popular Italian actors, including Gian Maria Volonte, Gigi Proietti, Remo Girone, Ottavia Piccolo and Paolo Poli. Between 1989 and 1996 he directed Brescia's Teatro Stabile. His latest production was a mounting of Melville's Billy Budd last summer at San Miniato Festival. Sequi also worked extensively at the opera, directing at London's Convent Garden, New York's Metropolitan, Milan's La Scala and Paris' Opera. His death occured on the same day of his mother's, herself a victim of a car crash, back in 1957. |
Sandro Sequi at Lyric Opera of Chicago
1968 Manon Lescaut with Maragliano, Domingo/Molese, Rinaldi, Andreolli; Bartoletti 1971 [Opening Night] Semiramide with Sutherland, Horne, Malas, Ferrin, Estes; Bonynge Rigoletto with Cappuccilli, Robinson, Kraus, Vinco; Bartoletti, Pizzi 1973 Fille du Régiment with Sutherland, Kraus, Malas, Resnik, Tourel/Chookasian, Andreolli; Bonynge 1975 Orfeo [Gluck] with Stilwell, Cotrubas, Zilio; Fournet, Samaritani, Tallchief, Balanchine 1976 Rigoletto with Mittelmann/Manuguerra, Mauti-Nunziata, Kraus, Casarini, Kuhlmann; Chailly, Pizzi 1977 Orfeo [Same as 1975, except Shade for Cotrubas] 1979 Rigoletto with Manuguerra/Elvira/Salvadori, Blegen, Pavarotti, Gill, Kuhlmann, Sharon Graham/Wendy White; Chailly, Pizzi, Schuler [Photo of this production can be seen with my interview of Ken Recu, Captain of Supers 1977-83] 1988-89 [Opening Night] Sonnambula with Gasdia/Welting, Lopardo, Kavrakos; Renzetti, Schuler, Tallchief 1990-91 Rigoletto with Nucci, Pace, Araiza, Langan, Redmon; Fiore, Pizzi 1991-92 Puritani with Anderson, Merritt, Plishka/Kavrakos/Perry/Robbins, Perry/Wadsworth; Renzetti, Lee -- Links refer to my interviews elsewhere on
my website. BD
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© 1988 Bruce Duffie
This conversation was recorded in Chicago on September 7, 1988. Portions were broadcast on WNIB the following week, and again in 1990. This transcription was made late in 1993, and published in The Opera Journal in December of that year. It was slightly re-edited, photos, links, and other material in the boxes were added in 2020, and it was posted on this website at that time. My thanks to British soprano Una Barry for her help in preparing this website presentation.
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Award - winning broadcaster Bruce Duffie was with WNIB, Classical 97 in Chicago from 1975 until its final moment as a classical station in February of 2001. His interviews have also appeared in various magazines and journals since 1980, and he now continues his broadcast series on WNUR-FM, as well as on Contemporary Classical Internet Radio.
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