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"Rigoletto" als kluges Opernspektakel

Dass sich auf der riesigen Bühne so etwas wie Intimität einstellt, das liegt auch an den Musikern. Stephen Costello ist ein viriler und stimmlich schneidiger Herzog, der sich mühelos in die Herzen der Frauen singt.

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19 julij 2019www.wienerzeitung.atJudith Belfkih
D: Bartlett Sher
C: Daniele RustioniKarel Mark ChichonKaren Kamensek
Igralska zasedba: Sylvia D'EramoChanáe CurtisErin MorleyRosa FeolaKristina MkhitaryanAdriana ChuchmanEdyta KulczakEve GigliottiMichael ChioldiQuinn KelseyChristopher JobJeongcheol ChaCraig ColcloughScott ScullyCatherine ChoiYohan YiJonathan ScottPiotr BeczałaStephen CostelloAndrea MastroniAnte JerkunicaVarduhi AbrahamyanYulia Matochkina
The Met’s ‘Rigoletto’ Brought in 2022 Against All Odds

While the highly anticipated revival of The Music Man idles awaiting the recovery from COVID of its stars Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster and other Broadway shows have closed either temporarily or permanently, the Metropolitan Opera defied Omicron to present its annual New Year’s Eve gala Friday night. If the crowd was sparser and less nattily dressed than in previous years, enthusiastically grateful applause greeted the superb cast and conductor after the premiere of the company’s new version of Verdi’s beloved classic Rigoletto. Before a celebratory shower of glittering confetti fell from the ceiling, the response was decidedly more tepid for the production team as yet once again director Bartlett Sher demonstrated little affinity for opera.

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05 januar 2022observer.comChristopher Corwin
La Traviata
D: Richard Eyre
C: Keri-Lynn Wilson
Igralska zasedba: Kristina MkhitaryanLiparit AvetisyanChristoph PohlJuan Jesús RodríguezBlaise MalabaGabrielė KupšytėJosef Jeongmeen AhnMichael GibsonJeremy WhiteRenata Skarelytë
BWW Review: LA TRAVIATA, Royal Opera House

If it's not broke, don't fix it!" Most clichés gain their status through being true, but that one is honoured in the breach as often as in its application, the desire to sell something new (even if it isn't really) as addictive to the vendor as it is to the buyer. Not always though. "25 years of Richard Eyre's La Traviata" is emblazoned (in gold, no less) on the cast list and the programme compiles a Who's Who of opera stars who have sung the roles in that quarter century - it was staged here as recently as January after all! So you've every right to expect something good, something slick, something that can fill hundreds of seats on wet Tuesday night a week before Christmas. And that's what you get.

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18 december 2019www.broadwayworld.comGary Naylor
La Traviata

Apart from Oropesa’s Violetta, the superb tenor Liparit Avetisyan gives a convincing performance as the passionate Alfredo, a role that is rarely achieved in operatic productions. The German baritone Christian Gerhaher in the role of Giorgio Germont, the man responsible for the break-up, also offers an impressive performance. The entire leading cast as well as the rest of the cast secured the narrative’s realism that is so brilliantly embedded in its musical fabric, which translates on stage in a manner that even those not musically trained, gain a satisfying musical and dramatic experience. The stamp of the director of this revival, Pedro Ruibeiro, is much in evidence. The dramatic performance, highlighting the conflict between father-son, the shift in Germont’s attitude towards Violetta, the ‘saintly courtesan’, is made clear in their first encounter in Act II. His hard tone and demeanour towards this fallen reveal early signs of softening and gestures of respect. The social norms layered with hypocrisy are superbly probed musically and dramatically in that first encounter between the two. The dramatic tension is given momentary relief by the colourful and beautifully performed gypsy’s singing dancing and the matadors. They lighten up the atmosphere before the mood darkens.The evening, in its entirety, can be summed up as memorable

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29 oktober 2021playstosee.comRivka Jacobson
D: Leonard Foglia
C: Patrick Summers
Igralska zasedba: Stephen CostelloBen HeppnerJay Hunter MorrisMorgan SmithJonathan LemaluTalise TrevigneMatthew O'NeillRobert OrthJosé Angel HernándezBradley KynardJoo Won Kang
Moby-Dick San Francisco Opera 10/10/12

Patrick Summers conducted with tremendous sweep and subtlety, and Heggie's music registered with turbulence and disarming sweetness; the score is often borne aloft on woodwinds, and San Francisco's section sounded exemplary. So did the men of Ian Robertson's chorus, who sang with hearty, unflagging energy.

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11 oktober 2012www.operanews.comGeorgia Rowe
D: Philipp Stölzl
C: Enrique MazzolaDaniele Squeo
Igralska zasedba: Stephen CostelloSergey RomanovskyPavel ValuzhinScott HendricksJordan ShanahanYngve SøbergVladimir StoyanovStacey AlleaumeMélissa PetitEkaterina SadovnikovaKostas SmoriginasJordan ShanahanGoderdzi JanelidzeMiklós SebestyénRinat ShahamKatrin WundsamLiviu HolenderWolfgang Stefan SchwaigerTaylan ReinhardPaul SchweinesterJorge EleazarDavid OštrekGloria GiurgolaLéonie RenaudDavid KerberHyunduk KimRinat ShahamKatrin Wundsam
"Rigoletto" als kluges Opernspektakel

Dass sich auf der riesigen Bühne so etwas wie Intimität einstellt, das liegt auch an den Musikern. Stephen Costello ist ein viriler und stimmlich schneidiger Herzog, der sich mühelos in die Herzen der Frauen singt.

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19 julij 2019www.wienerzeitung.atJudith Belfkih

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