Giovanni Zenatello News
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2017-08-06 15:59:35
[…] Rossini’s Le Compte Ory, directed by Stefano Montanari at the Lyon Operà. Among the numerous prizes she has received for her work, outstanding awards include the Ester Mazzoleni Special Prize, 2008, and the International “Mimosa d’Oro” Prize, 2008, which was bestowed by the City of Agrigento. In 2010 she was awarded the first Opera Oscar for the most popular soprano by the Verona Arena and it was in this same city that she won the Zenatello Prize for the best soprano in 2008. Her recordings include El rapto en aus dem Serail with Sir Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; the film Mozart in Turkey shot in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; Die Zauberflöte in the Paris Opera House; and CDs for Dynamic (Les Huguenots, Lucia di Lammermoor, La cambiale di matrimonio, Les contes d’Hoffmann), Bongiovanni (Ascanio in Alba), Arthaus Musik (Die Vögel, Die entführung aus dem serial-hangar 7), […]
2017-01-09 14:30:36
Theory of revolution
[…] Westbroek and Zeljko Lucic. Giordano’s most highly-regarded work had dropped in popularity in the second half of the 20th century, and is now often regarded as a guilty pleasure, somewhat like Adriana Lecouvreur. Just as Cilea’s work needs a true diva for the title role, Andrea Chénier demands the top tenors of the day. During its initial popularity after its 1896 premiere at La Scala, interpreters of the lead role included Francesco Tamagno, Giovanni Zenatello, Enrico Caruso, Giovanni Martinelli, Aureliano Pertile, Francesco Merli, Beniamino Gigli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, and Antonio Cortis. After World War II it became a calling card of Franco Corelli, Richard Tucker, and Mario del Monaco, and was then passed on to Carlo Bergonzi, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. Since then, it’s become rarer and rarer. Performances of the 1954 Met production became less frequent to the point that when it was last dragged on stage more […]
2016-12-01 19:50:42
‘V’ is for Verdi: The Met Opera’s ‘Simon Boccanegra’ and ‘Otello’ — How the Mighty Have Fallen (Part Two)
[…] disastrous assumptions in years past, as well as an unnerving one by the barrel-chested Richard Cassilly. I have listened to enough broadcasts and recordings of the work, including several live transmissions and actual stage presentations, to form my own opinions about how Otello should be handled. And I instinctively know when a voice has the stamina and thrust to acquit itself favorably in the part. I’ve also been privy to the best of the best: Zenatello, Martinelli, Vinay, Del Monaco, Vickers, McCracken, Cossutta, Domingo, Cura, et al. But never have I heard a more wobbly, more tonally inferior, more dramatically inert performance than the one I experienced with Antonenko. To be fair, even though no announcement of his disposition was forthcoming, I sensed trouble ahead, from the moment he opened his mouth. The love duet with Gerzmova’s beautifully inflected soprano, came off better than expected. And Antonenko’s Act II wasn’t […]
2015-11-14 17:38:39
[…] completed the opera on December 27, 1903, at precisely 11:05 pm. Pleased with the overall results, and with the two-act partition, as well as with the rehearsals (which had gone exceedingly well), Madama Butterfly was set to premiere at La Scala on February 17, 1904. Ricordi’s son, Tito, was placed in charge of the production, with scenery designed by the Parisian-born stage-painter Lucien Jusseaume. A first-rate cast was assembled for the run: Rosina Storchio, Giovanni Zenatello and Giuseppe de Luca, all of them established artists in their own right. The conductor would be Cleofonte Campanini, the brother of tenor Italo Campanini. Pinkerton (Giovanni Zenatello) & Sharpless (Giuseppe de Luca) in Act I of Madama Butterfly Everyone’s spirits were up, including Puccini’s, who felt secure enough in the outcome to invite his entire family to the opening — the first time any of his relatives were present at one his […]
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