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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-10-09 20:01:59
Don Quixote Destroys Puppets
[…] and adapted the text himself for three singers and a chamber orchestra to accompany a performance by puppets. I confess that, having heard El Retablo only on recording for a number of years, I thought of it as a somewhat monotonous piece. My view altered 100% upon seeing the work as it is intended to be performed, as accompaniment to a puppet show. For this event the Unitas Ensemble engaged a distinguished Mexican puppeteer, Pablo Cueto, who is a third-generation puppet master, continuing a tradition founded by his grandparents. The Sanders performance used a set of puppets created for this piece forty years ago by Cueto’s mother, Mireya Cueto. With a team of other puppeteers—John Bell, Trudy Cohen, and Carmen Solis—he presented a colorful, dramatic performance of utter charm. (He surprised the audience at the end by coming out from behind the puppet theater in full Don Quixote costume, complete […]
2013-10-19 00:14:00
[…] I have to be brief about a concert version with about a half hour of cuts of Verdi´s "La Forza del Destino" at the Roma (Avellaneda). Two singers dominated: the easy professionalism of baritone Omar Carrión and the strong personality of soprano Haydée Dabusti, always intense and accurate (though I missed some softer singing at appropriate moments). Tenor Juan González Cueto started poorly but later found better line and voice. Luciano Straguzzi was a correct bass, Vanina Trifoglio an agreeable Preziosilla (she skipped some high notes), Antonello Tramonti a wholly inadequate buffo baritone and Pablo Basualdo a rather dry bass in three roles. Conductor César Tello was the dynamic conductor of a passable Orchestra (de […]
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