Girolamo Vespa News
composer
- Italy
Last update
2024-03-28
Refresh
2016-02-26 16:15:55
Grand theatre, Leeds Opera North’s Fellini-esque production fizzes with energy as a holiday atmosphere takes hold and Vespa scooters putter around the stageCan there be any greater cure for the February blues than Opera North’s Elixir of Love? It must be said that, like the vintage Vespa scooters puttering back and forth across the piazza, Daniel Slater’s production has been around the block a few times (it was first produced in 2000). But, like a favourite holiday spot, the elegant hotel terrace featured in Robert Innes Hopkins’s design is the kind of place you’d happily go back to. Perhaps the only thing that never quite added up in this Fellini-esque paradise was that everyone appeared to speak English. It’s significant that for this revival, the title has reverted to the original and the piece is now sung in surtitled Italian. There are gains and losses here: I miss the directness of […]
2015-12-29 05:07:00
[…] prerpared for the press conference at the Colón CETC (Center for Experimentation). The other seven from Latinamerica: Ramiro Osorio Fonseca (Director General of the Teatro Mayor Santo Domingo at Bogotá; Alejandra Martí (Development Manager of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago); Lourdes Ambriz (Artistic Director of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, México DF); Daniela Bouret Vespa (General Director of the Teatro Solís, Montevideo); Alejandro Chacón (Artistic Director of the Ópera de Colombia, Bogotá); Gerardo Grieco (General Director of the Auditorio Nacional del Sodre, Montevideo); and Joao Guilherme Ripper (President of the Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro). From Spain: Juan Carlos Matellanes (President of ABAO-OLBE of Bilbao); Joan Matabosch (Artistic Director […]
2015-09-30 15:00:51
Fifty shades of Domingo
[…] Ms. Martinez was wonderful even though she had very little to work off of since Mr. Berti was, once again, almost solely concerned with vocal production and volume. As to the Canio v. Tonio decision on the final line, Canio won this time. The LA Opera Chorus acquitted itself marvelously and Pagliacci is a workout in this staging even before you add the possibility that you might get run over by a super driving a Vespa. Maestro Domingo led the LA Opera Orchestra and although his constant downbeats look like he’s trying to handcrank a lawnmower he is exceptionally good at accompanying singers and he certainly knows where all the tricky spots are.The orchestra itself sounded marvelous and there was real polish in the strings and the two harpists weren’t going to let us leave without hearing every note they had on the page. A good start to this season, […]
2015-08-02 22:03:35
[…] building with a relatively low ceiling that worked acoustically. The windows that lined the area above the stage made for a beautiful effect as the light dimmed outside. Director Mark Streshinsky used three platforms to create a U-shaped stage around the small Baroque ensemble. We were in close proximity to the instruments and the area around the audience was used extensively. Streshinsky was characteristically humorous, for instance Minerva brings Telemaco to Ulysses on a Vespa. There were extensive cuts, which made the length of the piece a very manageable two hours and twenty minutes with an intermission. Conducted by Gilbert Martinez, who also played harpischord and regal, the orchestra had a dry, understated sound. This let the singers shine. Many of the smaller parts were of a more humorous nature. Of these the suitors -- Gary Ruschman (Pisandro), Jonathan Smucker (Anfinomo), and Aaron Sorensen (Antinoo) -- […]
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): V...