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2022-03-05 10:20:29
Anglais - A Pelléas et Mélisande of Dark Beauty at Liceu
Achieving perfection in opera, the most complex form of artistic expression that Western culture has ever created, is not easy, but when it is achieved, the result is magical. The Pelléas et Mélisande currently on stage at Liceu does not reach perfection but it is very, very close to it and it is more than likely that it will become the great show of the season on an artistic level and will remain for many years in the theatre’s memory. Pelléas et Mélisande, Gran Teatre del Liceu 2022 © David Ruano Everything works at a very high level in this Pélleas. Getting an opera theater orchestra, usually accustomed to a different sonority, to sound ‘as Debussy’ is not easy, but Josep Pons has fully succeeded. In the orchestral sound there was a richness of colours, a floaty sound, transparencies, a delicate balance between sections and nuances, many […]
2021-11-30 13:20:05
Rigoletto comes back to Liceu – there will be fifteen performances and it will take the stage for the next few weeks. Verdi’s opera is presented in the same production, with Monique Wagemakers signing as stage director, as in March 2017 which was already reviewed for Opera Online. Nothing essential has changed and its virtues and flows are still present. However, it would seem that in this re-staged version, the actors’ direction and the choir’s movement received further work lightening a production which came across as rather rigid and visually static in the choral scenes. Rigoletto (© David Ruano) Rigoletto’s drama – Victor Hugo’s character which Verdi considered “one of the greatest creations that the theatre can boast of, in any country and in all history” – revolves around various axis, the main ones being: power, vengeance and exclusion of those who are different. Wagemakers’ proposal, which is […]
2021-06-16 12:56:41
Anglais - La Bohème moves to the Banlieue
[…] especially the (almost cinematographic) use of music as a mechanism of happiness remembrance during unhappy times. The two final acts are mainly constructed, from a musical perspective, around a re-elaboration of motifs which had initially illustrated happiness. Watching Mimì die whilst the orchestra play the theme from the first encounter between the two lovers in the first act has pleasantly devastating effects on the audiences’ emotivity. La Bohème, Gran Teatre del Liceu © David Ruano The Bohème seen at Liceu is the result of a commission from the Teatro Regio di Torino in 2016 to stage director Àlex Ollé. He worked on this production with his excellent usual collaborators, scenographer Alfons Flores and lighting designer Urs Schönebaum. Ollé moves the action from the bohemian Paris of the mid-19th century to the marginal and multicultural banlieue in present day Paris. The impactful scenography, with metallic structures reaching 18 […]
2021-01-28 20:42:51
Anglais - A Magnificent Recycled Hoffmann at Gran Teatre del Liceu
[…] troubling works by Belgian symbolist painter Leon Spilliaert (1881 – 1946). The production, rather than looking at the jolly and lively Offenbach, is more orienteered towards E.T.A. Hoffmann, author of the fantastical texts which decisively influenced most of the 19th century’s horror literature. Beyond narrating the impossibility of the poet’s quest for love, it goes further to present Hoffmann as a paradigm of sorts of the artist as a needed neurotic. (c) David Ruano(c) David Ruano Placing such a long piece in the described visual context could have resulted in a tedious and boring performance. Pelly resolves this with great skill through great scenic dynamism, with turning panels in constant movement, thus achieving an easy and agile narrative from the prologue, through to the three central acts and the epilogue. Musically, this recycled Hoffmann achieved very high levels, especially in the voices. First of all, […]
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