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2021-07-09 14:08:00
Don Giovanni, Royal Opera, 5 July 2021
Royal Opera House Images: (C) ROH 2021, by Bill Cooper Don Giovanni (Erwin Schrott),Donna Anna (Adela Zaharia) Don Giovanni – Erwin SchrottLeporello – Gerald Finley Donna Anna – Adela Zaharia Don Ottavio – Frédéric Antoun Donna Elvira – Nicole Chevalier Zerlina – Zuzana Marková Masetto – Michael Mofidian Commendatore – Adam Palka Donna Elvira’s maid – Josephine Arden Kasper Holten (director)Jack Furness (revival director)Es Devlin (set design)Luke Halls (video design)Anja Vang Kragh (costumes)Bruno Poet (lighting)Signe Fabricius, Anna-Marie Sullivan (choreography)Kate Waters, Simon Johns (fight direction)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Constantin Trinks (conductor)This was the real thing, a return to Covent Garden that reminded one what opera can, should, even must be. We had made allowances for La clemenza di Tito, with which the ‘first reopening’ took place; there were admirable things, not least the return of […]
2019-09-20 12:28:10
Anglais - First Rate Character Exploration in Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[…] what is happening ‘behind closed doors’ and hence highlight many subtexts. In this way, many telling things happen and it is significant that while normally at the end of Act I Don Giovanni escapes from the party as everyone closes in on him, here it is he who disperses the others with a gesture of his arms. He cannot, however, get rid of the Commendatore who ends up standing menacingly above him. Anja Vang Kragh’s costumes are also clever as they reveal the same writing and ink blots that appear on the set. The amount of ‘ink’ on Donna Anna’s pink dress varies throughout the opera, but after her opening encounter with Don Giovanni there is a blot on it that suggests he has stained her, and she moves to cover this with a large back overdress when Don Ottavio appears. In fact, what makes this revival feel distinct […]
2018-07-05 20:33:47
Anglais - First Rate Revival of Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[…] walls during the Overture and so-called ‘catalogue aria’, while the names of individual characters such as Donna Elvira appear on doors as if suggesting that each is destined to behave as they do. Don Giovanni also sings of how he plans to have fun with women as a mass of names and staircases swirl around him, thus revealing how he expects the world to revolve around him in order to provide pleasure. Anja Vang Kragh’s costumes also reflect what we see in the set, as in Act II the dresses of Donna Anna and Donna Elvira reveal ‘splattered’ or other patterned effects. All of these details are important in a production that penetrates the psychology of the drama so that, for example, the Don often appears silently before the female principals in their dreams (or solo arias). ‘Faceless’ figures also roam the set representing the ‘ghosts’ of women whom […]
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2015-02-03 15:45:41
Opera Essentials: L’Ormindo
[…] fearing death is certain. Cavalli takes care with the characterization of even the minor roles, constructing a work that delights and moves in equal measure. A Runaway Success Holten makes ingenious use of the unique space of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in his fabulously entertaining production: gods descend through the ceiling, spirits clamber through the floor, candles are extinguished as the lovers draw close – all of whom are bedecked in Anja Vang Kragh ’s fabulously inventive costumes. The production was acclaimed by audience and critics – The Guardian summarized, ‘A more exquisite evening would be hard to imagine’. L’Ormindo runs 3 February–5 March 2015. Tickets are sold out but returns may become available. The production is a co-production between Shakespeare’s Globe and The Royal Opera.
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