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2018-10-05 15:12:51
Anglais - Ernani at La Scala: Francesco Meli, Ailyn Pérez
'Mi raccomando brevità, e fuoco,' is how Verdi illustrated his blueprint for Ernani to his librettist Piave. He can't have been disappointed by the final product. Verdi's fifth opera brims with rollicking tunes, stirring arias and incendiary ensemble numbers -- it is an uninterrupted flow of musical invention. Such has not secured Ernani regular appearances at La Scala. The opera had last appeared at the Milan house 32 years ago, in a production from Luca Ronconi conducted by Riccardo Muti. Now it was back with Sven-Eric Bechtolf and Ádám Fischer at the helm. Fischer proved this performance's driving force. The conductor delivered a pacey, full-throttle reading, recounting the Victor Hugo-inspired plot, about Castillian noblemen, rugged bandits and honourable pacts, with unrelenting vigour and vivacity. The Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala provided a great deal of colour -- cantabile trumpets glowed, lower strings roared -- and Fischer employed extravagant gestures to […]
2017-03-08 17:58:20
Verse l’ivresse et l’oubli dans mon coeur!
Born on this day in 1825 librettist and playwright Jules Barbier. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_PLBkT82s Born on this day in 1875 composer Franco Alfano. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaS5Wd–6Cs Born on this day in 1914 tenor Franz Klarwein. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GG0UpZayvA Born on this day in 1933 director Luca Ronconi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=93r9WA2Z0Y8 Happy 78th birthday tenor Horst Laubenthal. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOsjK27mx3k Born on this day in 1939 tenor Robert Tear. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2fccUDPh8 Happy 56th birthday tenor Mark Padmore. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoC7c_XxLEc
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2017-01-04 19:08:36
Vienna’s favourite maestro dies, aged 92
[…] Pavarotti and Ileana Cotrubaş, in 1976 Massenet’s Werther with Alfredo Kraus and Elena Obraztsova, Madama Butterfly in 1978 and immediately after Manon Lescaut by Puccini with Sylvia Sass and Plácido Domingo in a direction of Piero Faggioni. In 1978 Ravel L’enfant et les sortileges and L’heure espagnole; back in 1981 for Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci, directed by Zeffirelli with Domingo and Obraztsova and in 1982 for Les Troyens by Berlioz in the direction of Luca Ronconi. The last operatic commitments of Prêtre at La Scala were Turandot directed by Keita Asari in 2001 and Pelleas et Melisande directed by Pierre Médecin, but he continued to give countless concerts with the orchestra. His last, triumphant concert took place on 22 February 2016. Georges Pretre was due to return to the podium for the Symphonic Season of the Teatro alla Scala on 13, 15 and 17 March 2017.
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