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2022-01-31 20:39:55
Anglais - Pikovaya Dama at the Liceu: The Return of a Historic Production
In January 1992 Liceu presented a new production for Pikovaya Dama, a relatively infrequent opera in the Barcelona stage despite being one of the best Tchaikovsky operas. At that time, it was unanimously considered to be one of the most luxurious productions the theatre had ever done. In 2003 and 2010 it made the stage again and now, thirty years after its premiere, it has once more come back to Liceu – a rare event for an operatic production. Pikovaya Dama operates in two registers, in two levels. On one hand, as requested by the Mariinsky theatre in Saint Petersburg where the opera was due to be premiered, the piece takes the extreme shape of a French grand opéra, with an abundance of characters, more or less historical scenes (it even includes Catherine the Great, thankfully in a silent character), great choral scenes and ballet. Modest Tchaikovsky, the composer’s […]
2021-11-20 03:00:00
Opera Recitals Post 3 of 3 (Domingo. P, Vickers. J, Milnes. S, London. G, Wunderlich. F)
Placido Domingo Romantic Arias Handel: Svegliatevi nel core (from Giulio Cesare) Mozart: Il mio tesoro intanto (from Don Giovanni) Donizetti: Inosservato, penetrava … Angelo casto e bel (from Il Duca d'Alba) Halévy: Rachel, quand du Seigneur (from La Juive) Verdi: Oh! fede negar potessi (from Luisa Miller) Wagner: In fernem Land (from Lohengrin) Verdi: O inferno!...Sento avvampar nell'anima (from Simon Boccanegra) Tchaikovsky: Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin) Puccini: Ecco la Casa...Torna ai felici di (from Le Villi) Mascagni: Apri la tua finestra (from Iris) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Downes (conductor) Jon Vickers Italian Opera Arias Ponchielli: Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda) Verdi: Io l'ho perduta (from Don Carlos) Cilea: È la solita storia 'Lamento di Federico' (from L'Arlesiana) Leoncavallo: Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci) Leoncavallo: No! Pagliaccio non son! (from I Pagliacci) Giordano, U: Un dì, all' azzurro […]
2021-03-29 17:19:16
Anglais - Otello at Liceu, a Psychological Drama
[…] solo scene delivered the best musical moment of the night. All secondary characters did very well, with Airam Hernández’s Cassio deserving a special mention. The choir, unbalanced at first, became more focussed in subsequent interventions and offered a good performance in a production that didn’t afford it many opportunities. Xavier Pujol Barcelona, 27th March 2021 Otello by Giuseppe Verdi. Gregory Kunde, tenor. Carlos Álvarez, baritone. Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano. Airam Hernández, tenor. Francisco Vas, tenor. Mireia Pintó, mezzosoprano. Felipe Bou, bass. Fernando Latorre, baritone. Orchestra and Choir of Gran Teatre del Liceu. Gustavo Dudamel, conductor. Amélie Niermeyer, stage director. Georgine Balk, re-staging. Christian Schmidt, scenography. Annelies Vanlaere, costumes. Olaf Winter, lighting. Production by Bayerische Staatsoper (Munchen). Gran Teatre del Liceu.
2021-01-28 20:42:51
Anglais - A Magnificent Recycled Hoffmann at Gran Teatre del Liceu
[…] orchestral precision with meticulous detail in the entries and also balanced the orchestra with the voices as well as the voices amongst themselves with notable efficacy. His version of Les contes d’Hoffmann is quite solid. Xavier Pujol (Barcelona, 25th January 2021) Les contes d’Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach. Elena Sancho Pereg, soprano, Olga Pudova, soprano. Ermonela Jaho, soprano. Nino Surguladze, mezzosoprano. Marina Viotti, mezzosoprano. Laura Vila, mezzosoprano. John Osborn, tenor. Aleksander Vinogradov, bass. Francisco Vas, tenor. Alexey Bogdanov, baritone. Carlos Daza, baritone. Orchestra of Gran Teatre del Liceu. Choir of Gran Teatre del Liceu. Riccardo Frizza, conductor. Laurent Pelly, stage director and costumes. Agathe Mélinand, dramaturgy and libretto version. Chantal Thomas, scenography. Joël Adam, lighting. Production by Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opéra National de Lyon, San Francisco Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin.
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