Larisa Gogolevskaya News
Russian opera singer and teacher
- soprano
- Soviet Union, Russia
- opera singer
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2012-04-08 01:07:41
[…] but it certainly manacles your attention.The same could not be said for all the singers. Unsatisfactorily, they were placed either side of the stage. If that helped in terms of audibility, it dashed all hope of dramatic sense or focus. Russian pronunciation of German – and yes, we are fine ones to talk – can be particularly hazardous for singers, but was not bad on this occasion. The best singing came from the almighty Larisa Gogolevskaya (Kundry), whose voice seems to break in at least three parts and is often not beautiful but who puts her very soul into each note.Nikolai Putilin's Klingsor showed comparable force and strength. Yury Vorobiev had an attractive voice as Gurnemanz but, like Avgust Amonov in the title role, seemed text-bound and dull, making the long exchange in Act 3 between the pair well nigh interminable. As Amfortas, Evgeny Nikitin looked restless and even bored […]
2012-04-01 19:45:01
[…] the real thing.Sections occasionally dragged, but that was less Gergiev's fault than his singers'. Neither Avgust Amonov's Parsifal nor Yury Vorobiev's Gurnemanz really gave much sense of a character; a Parsifal who doesn't grow in stature through the opera is as problematic as a Gurnemanz who doesn't make his great narrations compelling, and we had both here. On the plus side were Evgeny Nikitin's engaged Amfortas, Nikolai Putlin's stentorian Klingsor (despite an on-stage tumble), Larisa Gogolevskaya's Kundry (squally in the first act, but focused and dramatically intense when it mattered in the second) and, above all, Gergiev's conducting.Rating: 4/5OperaRichard WagnerClassical musicAndrew Clementsguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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