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2014-10-28 04:33:29
In witch we serve
[…] herself with a final yearning “Credete al mio dolore” immensely aided by Joseph Crouch’s eloquent cello obbligato. It could be argued that Ruggiero is the opera’s most important character; he certainly has the most music. Written for the famed soprano castrato Carestini, this role, along with that of Ariodante, has long remained the sole property of mezzo sopranos as the tessitura is too high for nearly all countertenors. However, this may be changing as Florin Cezar Ouatu, one of Angela Gheorghiu’s recent erstwhile boyfriends, appeared as Ruggiero several years ago in Lausanne and Philippe Jaroussky is scheduled to take on the role for the first time at next summer’s Aix-en-Provence Festival, opposite the enchantress of Patricia Petibon. However, at Carnegie we had a mezzo–Coote in a puzzling performance. Since starring in the Sergio Morabito/Jossi Wieler production of Alcina in Stuttgart in the late 1990s, the British mezzo has made […]
2014-01-18 04:59:27
Stage mother
[…] scene where she has four(!) da capo arias. In the role of the mercurial adolescent Nerone, Kimberly Sogioka was disappointingly drippy, more a moony Cherubino than a budding dictator. Her occasionally unsteady mezzo struggled shrilly with the sizzling coloratura. Although written for a castrato, it’s rarely sung by a man, although Derek Lee Ragin is miscast on the otherwise admirable John Eliot Gardiner recording , but Romanian countertenor and recently discarded Angela Gheorghiu boytoy Florin Cezar Ouatu recently took a brave stab at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aquGM6mDc24 As Claudio, bass Paul Goodwin-Groen literally towered over the rest of cast, proving particularly amusing during his attempted seduction of Poppea who stood at least two heads shorter. He went for a more serious take on the character than usual, missing Claudio’s ridiculousness. Coping well enough with the low tessitura, he tended to sound gravelly and seemed to lose concentration […]
2013-12-16 19:16:15
It's official. Cezar is out (if he was ever in). On the day that Roberto Alagna opens in Carmen at Covent Garden , Angela Gheorghiu has taken to Facebook to share her new love. He is Romanian dentist Mihai Ciortea , who at 26 is at least 22 years younger than Angela. More Mihai:
2013-07-03 06:53:58
17 Across: Flamboyant Romanian countertenor (5 letters)
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