The Cast

THE COUNT
- Alfonso Antionozzi
ANTONIA
- Elisabetta Scano
CHIARINA
- Adriana Cicogna
CARLINO
- Paul Austin Kelly
TRAPPOLINA - Elena Monti
FILIDORO
- Pietro Spagnoli
TOMMASO - Bruno Praticò
NICOLA
- Alfonso Antionozzi
FEDELE - Bruce Ford
GIAPPONE - Clive Bayley
(PMF Scholar)

Academy of St Martin
in the Fields
CONDUCTOR
- David Parry

Gramophone

'A Donizetti rarity restored to circulation with all of Opera Rara's customary flair.'

Opera

'It is here given a satisfying performance, dominated and held together by Practicò in full flight as a mercenary con-man and by Spagnoli as his disreputable nephew (the 'Man in Black' of the title)... Jeremy Commons' excellent introductory essay in the accompanying booklet... is a model of what such things should be.'