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2022-06-07 23:35:00
Don Giovanni, San Francisco Opera, Media Round-Up
[…] not a coincidence that the best production of this I've ever seen took the opera seriously and didn't play it for laughs. If you're going to laugh at this opera, where most of the jokes are about sexual assault or class, you should be laughing nervously. I'm especially disappointed because honestly, this was about the best-sung Don Giovanni that I have seen at SFO. A good chunk of the cast was new (Etienne Dupuis, Nicole Car, Adela Zaharia, Cody Quattlebaum) and they were all good to terrific. Zaharia sounded like a dramatic soprano, with a big, dark voice, so imagine my surprise at finding Lucia and other coloratura roles in her bio. Donna Anna can accommodate a range of voice types, I guess. Dupuis was not quite as magnetic as in the Met Don Carlos, and I feel like he has an even better DG in him, but he was fine. I liked […]
2022-03-14 10:21:00
Opéra BastilleDon Giovanni – Christian van Horn Commendatore – Alexander Tsymbalyuk Donna Anna – Adela Zaharia Don Ottavio – Pavel Petrov Donna Elvira – Nicole Car Leporello – Krzysztof Bączyk Masetto- Mikhail Timoskenko Zerlina – Anna El-KhashemIvo van Hove (director)Jan Versweyveld (set designs, lighting)An D’Huys (costumes)Isabelle Horovitz (choreography)Christopher Ash (video)Jan Vandenhouwe (dramaturgy) Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris, (chorus master: Ching-Lien Wiu)Orchestra of the Opéra national de ParisBertrand de Billy (conductor) The problem with Don Giovanni, or rather with all too many contemporary approaches to it, whether by directors or audiences (perhaps less musicians), is secular liberals’ inability or refusal to acknowledge its nature as a deeply religious, indeed theological work. It does not tie one down to a single possibility, far from it, but simply to ignore that aspect, likewise its delicate, related balance on the cusp of mythology, serves at best to impoverish and delimit its […]
2021-07-09 14:08:00
Don Giovanni, Royal Opera, 5 July 2021
Royal Opera House Images: (C) ROH 2021, by Bill Cooper Don Giovanni (Erwin Schrott),Donna Anna (Adela Zaharia) Don Giovanni – Erwin SchrottLeporello – Gerald Finley Donna Anna – Adela Zaharia Don Ottavio – Frédéric Antoun Donna Elvira – Nicole Chevalier Zerlina – Zuzana Marková Masetto – Michael Mofidian Commendatore – Adam Palka Donna Elvira’s maid – Josephine Arden Kasper Holten (director)Jack Furness (revival director)Es Devlin (set design)Luke Halls (video design)Anja Vang Kragh (costumes)Bruno Poet (lighting)Signe Fabricius, Anna-Marie Sullivan (choreography)Kate Waters, Simon Johns (fight direction)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Constantin Trinks (conductor)This was the real thing, a return to Covent Garden that reminded one what opera can, should, even must be. We had made allowances for La clemenza di Tito, with which the ‘first reopening’ took place; there were admirable things, not least the return of […]
2021-06-26 01:55:00
San Francisco Opera 2021-22 Season
[…] Henrik Nanasi, conductor; Michael Cavanagh, stage director; Erhard Rom, production designer; the cast includes Nicole Cabell, Irene Roberts, Ben Bliss, John Brancy, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Nicole Heaston Dec. 10 - “The Future is Now” Adler Fellows Concert (in Herbst Theater) June 4, 10, 12, 15, 18, 21, 26. July 2 - Mozart's Don Giovanni - new production, Bertrand de Billy, conductor; Michael Cavanagh, stage director; Erhard Rom, production designer ; the cast includes Etienne Dupuis, Adela Zaharia, Carmen Giannattasio, Amitai Pati, Luca Pisaroni, Christina Gansch, Soloman Howard June 14, 17, 19, 23, 25, July 1, 3 - Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber - Darrell Ang, conductor; Stan Lai, stage director; Tim Yip, production designer; cast includes Meigui Zhang, Yijie Shi, Hyona Kim, Karen Chia-ling Ho, Hongni Wu, Sabina Kim, Guang Yang June 30 - Verdi Concert, Kim conductor, with Nicole Car, Arturo Chacon-Cruz, Soloman Howard One Puccini, one […]
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