Recensioni di produzioni precedenti
2Belle reprise à Berlin, au Staatsoper Unter den Linden, d’une production de novembre 2013 du Trouvère, dans la vision de Philipp Stölzl. A revoir la version initiale (Domingo, Netrebko, Rivero, Prudenskaya, pour le quatuor vocal, le tout sous la direction de Barenboïm), on se dit hâtivement qu’il ne peut s’agir là que d’une seconde distribution en somme. Or, ce n’est pas tout à fait exact, tant cette soirée, pour irrégulière qu’elle fut par certains aspects, nous offrit aussi de jolis moments, voire quelques fulgurances dont on se souviendra.
Of the three principals, Marcelo Álvarez was most successful at integrating a strain of lyricism into an otherwise dramatic role. His Dick Johnson stood apart from the patrons of the Polka bar not only in sartorial terms – his crisp black suit put him immediately at odds with the jeans and flannel around him – but in his suave, supple delivery, especially his elegantly sculpted expressions of feeling for Minnie at the end of the first act. As Jack Rance, Michael Volle distinguished himself as much through intelligence as force; he was the most charismatically dangerous figure on stage, yet his glowering, contemptuous manner with the miners made his brief flashes of humanity all the more disarming. He was also an ideal vocal partner for Ms Kampe, and in an opera full of grandly-wrought emotion, the palpable malice in the scenes between Minnie and Rance emerged as perhaps the most authentic; for all the production’s visual flash, it was the simple confrontation between these two forces that provided the evening with its greatest excitement.
