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2022-08-11 19:26:18
Montreal, August 2nd, 2022 – On Sunday, August 14th at 9:00 pm, on the Mastro® and San Daniele® stage in Little Italy, all eyes will be on the presentation of the opera, “The Barber of Seville”, starring a cast of exceptional singers including Raphaëlle Paquette as Rosina, Hugo Laporte as Figaro, Louis-Charles Gagnon as Count Almaviva, [...]
2019-07-11 08:32:55
La forza del destino: Verdi's sprawling masterpiece in a highly picturesque production at the Paris Opera
[…] role.Rafal Siwek made a poised Padre Guardiano, one suspected he was rather ascetic and definitely at one remove from humanity in great contrast to Gabriele Viviani's very human Melitone. As with the best performances of this role, Viviani added a nice sense of serious intensity to the humour. Carlo Cigni made a youthful, upright and unbending Marquis.The smaller roles were all well taken with Majdouline Zeran as a delightful Curra, Rodolphe Bricano as an upright Mastro Trabuco, Luciano Prete as the Alcade and Laurent Laberdesque as the surgeon. Verdi: La forza del destino - Elena Stikhina - Opera National de Paris (Photo Julien Benhamou / OnP) The large chorus sang well, and made the big chorus numbers fill the auditorium. In the pit Luisotti conducted a fluid account of the piece so this most sprawling of operas really flowed. The playing from the Paris Opera Orchestra was admirable.
2019-04-13 08:56:42
The stars shine in Verdi's La forza del destino at Covent Garden despite a rather disappointing production
[…] Corbelli is a brilliant comedian and sang the role of Fra Melitone here and in Amsterdam, so the slightly vicious element to Melitone's comedy in Act Three were presumably deliberate.The smaller roles were all well cast, but tended to get lost in the welter of people on stage (the production used a large chorus, dancers and actors) and in the big scenes it was difficult to see who was singing. But Carlo Bosi impressed as Mastro Trbuco, with Michael Mofidian as Alcade, Jonathan Fisher as the surgeon and Roberta Alexander as luxury casting as Curra.The chorus have a lot of work to do here, Loy has a lot going on in the big scenes and the Covent Garden chorus participated enthusiastically in the organised may-hem of the inn scene, and in the musical theatre elements of the staging at the end of Act Three. Though quite why we needed big […]
2018-02-12 08:09:19
Powerful stuff: Verdi's La forza del destino in Cardiff
[…] the performance on 10 February 2018.Directed David Pountney with set designs by Raimund Bauer, costumes by Marie-Jeanne Lecca, lighting by Fabrice Kebour and choreography by Michael Spenceley, Mary Elizabeth Williams was Donna Leonora, Gwyn Hughes Jones was Don Alvaro, Luis Cansino was Don Carlo di Vargas, Miklos Sebestyen was il Marchese di Calatrava and Padre Guardiano, Justina Gringyte was Preziosilla and Curra, Donald Maxwell was Fra Melitone, Wyn Pencarreg was the Alcalde, Alun Rhys-Jenkins was Mastro Trabuco and Julian Boyce the surgeon. La forza del destino was written for St Petersburg in 1862. As the excellent programme book explained, the opera was due in 1861 but was postponed due to the illness of the soprano, and Verdi would revise it for the 1869 performances at La Scala, but in fact each of these dates saw the opera in a different state as Verdi and Piave struggled somewhat with the […]
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