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Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in Piacenza moved from fierce energy to the most tender emotions

Andrea Mastroni’s firm, confident and rich bass for Polifemo was particularly magnificent throughout. Polifemo has his lyrical moments in addition to his barnstormings, Mastroni finding a superb mezza voce at – in translated text – ‘not forever, no, cruel one, will you speak to me like this’.

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16 noviembre 2020seenandheard-international.comColin Clarke

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Rigoletto, Verdi
D: Bartlett Sher
C: Daniele RustioniKarel Mark ChichonKaren Kamensek
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 enero 2022observer.comChristopher Corwin
A kékszakállú herceg vára, Bartók
D: Deda Cristina Colonna
C: Marco Alibrando
Novara, Alibrando svela la profezia di Barbablù

Scommessa vinta grazie alla bacchetta di Marco Alibrando che dal podio restituisce intatte le atmosfere, i colori, le inquietudini del Castello grazie ad un minuzioso lavoro di concertazione. Il direttore siciliano, interprete di grande maturità e di spiccata e non comune sensibilità, scava nella partitura, la viviseziona e la ricompone per trovare, con i ventitré musicisti (che sono quelli dell’orchestra del Coccia) il suono ideale per raccontare (con poco) il mondo (sonoramente ridondante e sterminato) di Barbablù. Mondo nel quale Alibrando ci introduce con un suono nebbioso, che viene dal silenzio, sul quale si stagliano le parole del prologo, detto (da Giuditta Pascucci e Carolina Rapillo) in italiano e non nel più litanico, rituale, magico ungherese del libretto. Sette porte oltre le quali ci conduce Alibrando dando ad ogni scena, ad ogni scoperta di Judit un colore, un’atmosfera diversa: tagliente e metallica quella della camera delle torture, ipnotica quella della stanza dei gioielli, che diventa poi lussureggiante nel giardino, solenne nel descrivere il regno di Barbablù che, nell’intuizione registica di Deda Cristina Colonna, diventa la sala del teatro, illuminata a tutta luce. Ma poi arriva il sangue, che colora tutto. Arriva il brivido (letteralmente nella concertazione di Alibrando, lunare e siderale) del lago di lacrime. Arriva l’ultima porta. Quella delle tre mogli. Vive, nel racconto di Bartók e Balázs, immobili, cristallizzate in un’inquieta, candida eternità con i loro volti ricamati nell’arazzo che cala dall’alto, sudario funebre per Judith immobile sul trono/tomba.

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26 octubre 2021www.pierachilledolfini.itPierachille Dolfini
Don Carlo (Italian version), Verdi
D: Nicholas Hytner
C: Bertrand de Billy
Royal Opera's Don Carlo revival fails to completely catch fire

Kristin Lewis, making her Royal Opera debut as Elisabetta at relatively short notice to replace Krassimira Stoyanova, cut a girlish figure dashing through the snowy forests of Fontainebleu in Act 1. Her soprano was a little cloudy at first, consonants swallowed, and nervousness doubtless played a part in a couple of forgotten words and skipped cues. After a few cranky gear changes between registers, Lewis rose to the challenge of her demanding Act 5 aria “Tu che le vanità” well, with good pianissimo high notes and long phrases blossoming. Christoph Pohl, stepping in at even shorter notice for Ludovic Tézier, made a fine impression as Posa, his noble baritone having just enough bite to wound Philip in their Act 2 confrontation. After a curiously low-key Veil Song, Ekaterina Semenchuk made her mark as Eboli.For a performance which ended a good ten minutes ahead of the advertised timing, Bertrand de Billy's reading felt ponderous in places, the final Carlo—Elisabetta duet in danger of grinding to a complete halt. The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House played well though, the brass on its better behaviour, and the Chorus gave the auto-da-fé plenty of mob mentality. Hopefully individual performances will bed in during the run, but this was an evening where it wasn't just the heretics that failed to catch fire.

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13 mayo 2017bachtrack.comMark Pullinger
Oedipus rex, Stravinsky
C: Kirill Petrenko
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‘All the smaller roles were well taken and characterful, particularly the resonant bass of Derek Welton as Creon and the messenger.’

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14 febrero 2021bachtrack.comChris Garlick

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