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Italian conductor and composer
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2016-02-12 15:30:25
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[…] Koven’s liking was this night’s opera, a Rigoletto with Giuseppe de Luca’s “subtle and sarcastic” jester. “[O]h, in these lack luster musical times, for the melodic genius of a Verdi,” pleaded the critic (himself a composer, whose The Canterbury Pilgrims had received seven Met performances) less than a year before his sudden death. 1923: “The Metropolitan Opera House gave shelter last evening to a new opera from Italy,” wrote Richard Aldrich of the premiere of Vittadini’s now-little-known Anima Allegra. “Gayety is its theme, and its lesson is that life perceptibly brightens if you are visited by a sufficiently lively niece.” Perhaps the opera caught the spirit of its time; another review indicates it went over well with the “Monday nighters” of New York society. But after ten performances in 1923-24, Anima Allegra vanished from the Met’s repertory. Lucrezia Bori and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi headed its deluxe Met premiere cast. 1924: Hungarian […]
2015-09-08 01:02:00
[…] the part with a deep bass voice, but either because the producer wanted it or he likes it that way, his characterisation was of a much older man than at the Colón, and I don´t agree: he shouldn´t look more than 50 to 55. The tiresome drunkards Schmidt and Johann were correctly sung by Sergio Vittadini (a new name) and Sebastián Angulegui, though grossly exaggerated in their movements and explosions of laughter, probably marked so by the producer. A general problem whenever a French opera is put on stage is the deficient diction, and there were many moments where some phonemes grated on the ear. […]
2012-11-21 20:49:00
[…] if I would have preferred from him a less open voice, one with more light and shade. Elisabeth Canis was an excellent Filipievna (the wet-nurse), and both Alicia Alduncín (Larina, the mother) and Vanina Guilledo (Olga) were satisfactory. To my mind Walter Schwarz lacks the deep Russian-type voice for Gremin, but he sang acceptably. Sergio Spina did an appropriately mannered Triquet (Louis XVI style) and the fine voices of Emiliano Bulacios, Ricardo Crampton and Sergio Vittadini were pluses. There has never been a shortage of "Toscas" and I wasn´t particularly keen on seeing it yet again, but there were some good points in Juventus Lyrica´s revival. Foremost, Antonio Russo´s eminently musical phrasing with a responsive orchestra. Good choral work (prepared by Russo). And Sabrina Cirera as Tosca, whose voice has vastly improved […]
2011-12-23 22:50:00
DECEMBER 24 Today in classical music history
[…] Talpa in Tabarro (Puccini) Simone in Gianni Schicci (Puccini) Sang in premiere of Canterbury Pilgrims (De Koven) Anima Allegra (Vittadini) Figlia di Jorio (Franchetti). 1881 Birth of American composer Charles Wakefield CADMAN in Johnstown, PA. d-LA, 30 DEC 1946. Search Charles Wakefield CADMAN. 1887 (1888?) Birth of Spanish soprano Lucrezia BORI in Valencia. Search Lucrezia BORI. Died 14 May 1960 Debut Micaela […]
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