Performance History
The opera has been rarely performed in the twentieth century and beyond. However, a concert performance was given by the Opera Orchestra of New York in February 1975.
In the US, the San Diego Opera presented it during their "Verdi Festival" in summer 1984 with Joan Sutherland in the role of Amalia. However, it is claimed that Vincent La Selva (now of the New York Grand Opera) attempted to give the first US presentation in 127 years in 1998, but it did appear in 1996 as part of the NYGO's "Viva Verdi" series of all of the composer's operas presented in chronological order.
Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky sang the role of Francesco in a performance with the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden under Edward Downes on 8 June 1998 at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden. He repeated the role the following year with a March concert performance given by OONY in New York.
There was a staging in Palermo in 2001 with Dimitra Theodossiou, Roberto Servile, and Carlo Ventre, which has been recorded. The Sarasota Opera, a company which plans to present all of Verdi's operas before 2016, staged I masnadieri in 2006 and, more recently, it was presented by the Zurich Opera in December 2010 (with Fabio Sartori, Thomas Hampson, and Isabel Rey, in the leading roles), by the Frankfurt Opera in November 2008, and again in June 2011
It was given at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in March 2012.
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