Desc: Oberto: Directed by Tiziano Mancini. With Mariana Pentcheva, Giorgia Bertagni, Fabio Sartori, Giovanni Battista Parodi. (Verdi's first opera.) In 1228, defeated and in exile, Oberto returns to duel with Riccardo, who seduced and shamed Oberto's daughter Leonora, then proposed to Cuniza, the daughter of Oberto's rival.