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2017-09-16 05:04:00
Wo bleibt Elektra?
[…] there it is.)There's other stage-setting missing as well: the five maidservants and the overseer are offstage, their voices piped in, for the very opening. (And what is a singer of Jill Grove's stature doing as the First Maidservant? Perhaps covering Klytemnestra?) They have distinctive characters, but we have a lot less time to meet them and get to know them. A scene from Strauss' "Elektra" with Nicole Birkland (Third Maidservant), Sarah Cambidge (Fourth Maidservant), Alexandra Loutsion (The Overseer), Rhoslyn Jones (Fifth Maidservant), and Jill Grove (First Maidservant). Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera Later in the opera, there's some underdirection of Elektra: she spends too much unfocussed time wandering around the stage, and she doesn't dance herself to death. She seems to die more of shock; at least, she lies catatonic on the floor at the end of the opera.Well, others thought this worked better than I did, including Joshua (yes, […]
2015-05-04 03:09:03
[…] Elvira into thinking she’s being wooed by her ex-lover the Don. Lau’s Catalogue Aria, “Madamina, il catalogo è questo,” was humorously done, as female embodiments of the various nationalities that populate the Don’s list milled about. (The one from “Alemagna,” or Germany, held a pretzel in her hand!) Lau was the clear audience favorite at ovation time, winning a well-earned round of applause. Don Ottavio (David Blalock) swears an oath to Donna Anna (Alexandra Loutsion) to avenge her father’s death Soprano Alexandra Loutsion’s formidable Donna Anna effectively conveyed the character’s steadfastness in seeking revenge for her father’s murder. Her “Or sai chi l’onore” and “Non mi dir” were models of vocal coloration and emotional commitment, fulfilling every coloratura requirement called for. A full-throated performer, Loutsion, in looks and voice, reminded one of a young Angela Meade, which is a backdoor way of saying that a career in early […]
2015-03-22 19:27:04
Et in Arcadia, libido
[…] agile and true, though a tad shrill when cavorting in the stratosphere. I liked Karen Mushegain’s soothingly amorous mezzo as Daphnis, and her way of playing with a sheep’s floppy ears when shy. Gary Ramsey, as the barechested god of sleaze, harmonized amiably with both the pastors and sang his character with the self-satiated flamboyance. Among the salacious Bacchantes, clearly influenced by the sort of thing girls get up to on TV talent shows, Alexandra Loutsion, who seems to be a mezzo now, was in especially powerful and lip-smacking form. I’d like to see her as Dalila, or perhaps Frank N. Furter. Photo by Christopher Ash.
2014-12-31 18:00:58
The year in Yohalem
[…] the money, always the money” – well, I’m back in Peter Grimes again. In a concert premiere of an opera, The Purchase of Manhattan, by a Native American composer, Brent Michael Davids (but with text in English), sung at a commodious church (Marble Collegiate) on the Middle East Side, I had the pleasure that keeps an opera lover coming back: The discovery of a remarkable young singer evidently ignored by the powers that be. Alexandra Loutsion easily filled the capacious hall with radiant sound, smoothly and evenly produced, deep enough to convince me she was a mezzo, unforced in higher registers. On her web site she lists many soprano roles. I would go anywhere in reason to hear her sing anything. She is the real deal, and it helped that Davids, if he lacks melodramatic excitement, knows how to write melody and to write for voice. We all love to […]
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