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2022-06-12 15:51:07
Glyndebourne, SussexFloris Visser’s new production puts a dark spin on this story of doomed lovers – which only heightens the life-affirming vibrancy of the music ‘We’ll part when the flowers appear,” sing Mimì and Rodolfo at the end of act three, putting off the break-up they have now accepted as inevitable. There’s nothing in Puccini’s music to dampen the audience’s fond hope that they’ll work things out in the meantime and live happily ever after. But in Floris Visser’s new La Bohème, there is a chill to these words – because the flowers are already appearing, sickly pink against the monochrome set, uncovered by the tall, gaunt figure who has been shadowing consumptive Mimì since before she stepped into Rodolfo’s life. Death is not in Puccini’s cast list. But in Visser’s production, which plays on any number of film references from The Seventh Seal to Meet Joe Black, he is […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2022-02-07 10:51:06
The multi-talented Gianluca Floris, president of Assolirica (the... The post Italian singers grieve for their president, 58 appeared first on Slipped Disc.
2019-02-25 07:38:32
In case you are sifting through your residual Spanish from college, your rough translation is correct: This early music group calls itself Rats of the Old World, a HIP rat pack founded in 2017 by Floris De Rycker, cruising the authentic-performance scene with the bent neck of a medieval lute sticking through the sunroof. Gesualdo […]
Brian Dickie, Life as General Director of Chicago
2019-01-29 09:38:42
© www.marcoborggreve.com The above photo gives a taste of the visual impact of the Dutch National Opera's spectacular new production by Floris Visser of Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans which I saw yesterday evening. Saw yes, but above all heard - with...
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