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2024-02-19 17:22:00
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 16 February 2024
Count Almaviva – Siyabonga Maqungo Doctor Bartolo – Renato Girolami Rosina – Marina Viotti Don Basilio – Grigory Shkarupa Berta – Adriane Queiroz Figaro – Samuel Hasselhorn Fiorillo – Dionysios Averginos Ambrosio, Notary – Florian Eckhardt Officer – Wolfgang BiebuyckDirector – Ruth BerghausDesigns – Achim FreyerRevival director – Katharina LangStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Dani Juris)Staatskapelle BerlinIdo Arad (conductor)Images (from 2010): Monika Rittershaus I see that, in London, Jonathan Miller’s 1987 ENO production of The Barber of Seville is receiving another outing. It seems positively modern, though, at least when it comes to years and performances on the clock, when compared with Ruth Berghaus’s 1968 staging for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, first seen a little less than midway between the declaration of the German Democratic Republic and the fall of the Berlin Wall and now past 350 outings. In one of these near-miracles impossible fully to explain, though, Berghaus’s production seems […]
2022-06-17 11:45:01
Strong meat: Grange Park Opera stages Ponchielli's rarity, La Gioconda in a performance that full embraces the work's drama
Ponchielli: La gioconda - Act One - Grange Park Opera 2022 (Photo Marc Brenner)Ponchielli: La gioconda; Amanda Echalaz, Joseph Calleja, Elisabetta Fiorillo, David Stout, Marco Spotti, director: Stephen Medcalf, the Gascoigne Orchestra, conductor: Stephen Barlow; Grange Park OperaReviewed 16 June 2022, (★★★★)A rare chance to hear Ponchielli's best-known opera in a large-scale and dramatic staging featuring a strong array of voices There were plenty of opera composers in Italy in the 19th century, but few wrote operas that have managed to stay in the repertoire and it is Verdi who dominated then and certainly dominates now. Between Donizetti's Caterina Cornaro (premiered in Naples in 1844) and Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (premiered in Rome in 1890), few new operas by composers other than Verdi have managed to remain in the repertoire. One of these is Ponchielli's La gioconda (premiered 1876, revised 1880), though its hold on the repertoire is fragile. Opera North staged it (with Rosalind Plowright […]
2020-08-07 23:00:00
Steven Staryk – 400 Years Of The Violin: An Anthology Of The Art Of Violin Playing
Vol. 1: Staryk In RecitalWorks by Fiocco - Schumann - Mozart etcEvery Violinist's Guide: 18 Traditional Etudes by Kreutzer, Dancla, Rode, Fiorillo, Kayser, Dont and Wieniawski (First Recording)Vol. 2: All Wieniawski Program: Complete Etude-Caprices for 2 Violins (World Premiere recording) plus Polonaise, Mazurka, Legende and Scherzo - TarantellaItalian Baroque Sonatas: Works by Nardini, Veracini, Locatelli and CorelliVol, 3: JS and CPE Bach: Four Sonatas BWV 1018, 1021, 1023and 542/5Solo Sonatas by Pisendel, Prokofiev, Hindemith, Papineau-Couture, Stamitz, GeminianiAdela Kotowska pianoEloise Niwa pianoKenneth Gilbert harpsichordBaroque/ Everest 1968digital download, cover and tagsIf you have heard the Mahler's Fourth Symphony recorded by Solti in Amsterdam, you have heard Steven Staryk. Born in Canada in 1932 and one of McCarthy "Symphony Six", he was concertmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the Toronto Symphony. Here is his masterful compilation, published by the Baroque Records label in 1968 and distributed by Everest, […]
2018-06-28 12:23:24
Verdi's Un ballo in maschera at Grange Park Opera
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera - Claire Rutter, Vincenzo Costanzo - Grange Park Opera (Photo Robert Workman) Verdi Un ballo in maschera; Claire Rutter, Vincenzo Costanzo, Roland Wood, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Tereza Gevorgyan, dir: Stephen Medcalf, orchestra of English National Opera, cond: Gianluca Marciano; Grange Park Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 June 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Verdi's complex opera in its American setting with some strong individual performances Elisabetta Fiorillo - Grange Park Opera (Photo Robert Workman) With it's complex political background, Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera provides the director with a variety of choices. Antonio Somma's libretto, based on the assassination of King Gustavo III of Sweden, was just too much for the King of Naples' censors, particularly in the light of assassination attempts on Napoleon III, so the opera was ultimately premiered in a version set in colonial-era Boston, […]
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