Matthew Stiff Actualités
musicien britannique
- basse
- musique classique
- Royaume-Uni
- artiste lyrique
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2024-04-25
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2013-07-07 22:23:09
San Francisco’s Tales of Hoffman is Right on Target with Natalie Dessay
Let’s be clear right from the start: the joint effort of Barcelona, San Francisco and Lyon, vocally powerful in this production, is right on target. Because quite simply, precise, explicit, slimmed-down, fast-paced–in a word, successful–it unquestionably achieves its goal. No use rehashing the libretto’s history or the structure of these Tales. That would be opening too large a can of worms. Happily, our colleague Catherine Scholler has deciphered the puzzle for us (cf. Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Pleyel, 2012, ResMusica .) Michael Kaye and Jean-Christophe Keck ’s version reigns here, seasoned very slightly by Choudens and Oeser. The dialogue, written by dramaturge Agathe Mélinand for Lausanne in 2005, retouched for Barcelona (February, 2013). The sets by Chantal Thomas work very well; sparse, austere (discreet), bluish-gray, dark or black, made up of those sliding panels which can either reduce or enlarge a space, Lewis Carroll’s Alice would find them most acceptable. The […]
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