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Teatro Real. Rossini's Il turco in Italia. June 3, 2023.
Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain. Butaca Paraiso (Seat 13-13, 90 euros).Inside of the Teatro Real as viewed from our seat at the back of the "paradise" section. The auditorium seats 1746, per their website.Story. The story is quite simple. Zaida, a favorite slave of Prince Selim, left Turkey for Italy after being falsely accused of infidelity. She is now with a group of Gypsies. Fiorella, meanwhile, is a housewife bored with her marriage to Geronio. When the Turk visits Italy, sparks fly between him and Fiorella, Selim first offers to buy Fiorilla from Geronio, then threatens to kidnap her. At the end, Selim offers Fiorilla to elope to Turkey together. At the end, Selim recognizes and reconciles with Zaida, Fiorilla decides to stay with Geronio.The simple story is complicated by the role of poet Prosdocimo who is trying to write a story using the events that unfold, Narciso - Fiorilla's servant […]
2017-02-07 22:15:56
Jesus Christ! Superstars?
[…] imprisoned in the castle. By covering the queen in a wedding veil, Arturo helps her escape. Elvira believes she has been abandoned by Arturo, but in the end, the two are happily reunited. Elvira Albina Shagimuratova Conductor Enrique Mazzola Arturo Lawrence Brownlee Director Eric Einhorn Riccardo Anthony Clark Evans° Set Designer Ming Cho Lee Giorgio Adrian Sâmpetrean Costume Designer Peter J. Hall Lighting Designer Chris Maravich Chorus Master Michael Black °Ryan Opera Center Alumnus Anthony Freud: “Opera companies can produce I Puritani only when four extraordinary singers are available, and I’m delighted to say that we have them. Albina Shagimuratova, the Russian soprano who was so enthralling as both Gilda and Lucia at Lyric, […]
2016-10-18 14:48:13
‘Tis new to thee
Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor returned to Chicago Lyric Opera on Saturday evening in a “new to Chicago” but well-travelled production by Graham Vick. And whatever one thinks of this production, last night we had in spades what every great bel canto opera needs: spectacularly good singing from the principals and the Lyric Opera chorus, and wonderful playing by the Lyric Opera Orchestra under debuting conductor Enrique Mazzola. The audience responded with an enthusiasm rarely heard from the usually staid crowd at the Civic Opera House. Maestro Mazzoli led a very idiosyncratic reading of the score, occasionally too loud and bangy (the overture) and occasionally too fast (the Act One duet “Verrano a te…” sped by as if Edgardo couldn’t wait to get on that boat) but there was never an unexciting moment. The overall arc and sweep of the music was very well served and the […]
2014-11-12 15:30:09
Flame war
[…] out over the pit and a clever enclosure at its apex for the prompter. Doors, trap and otherwise, fly open at various levels and at various sizes. Some, either real or projection based, allow for exits and entrances or for the display of some nifty computer imagery bursting with colorful dreamscapes. Much of the lighting is up from the footlights giving everything a grotesque “monster-movie” look Things start very promisingly with the entrance of Adrian Sâmpetrean as Ferrando. With his skull shaved clean and a scar diagonally across his face, he makes an appropriately menacing figure as he launches into the tale of the gypsy’s kidnapping the old Count’s son. His voice is excellent and is Italian acute. He’s very exacting in all of the tricky writing in this part even if his trill escapes him at times because Barenboim’s taking it all at a fairly rapid clip. Costume designer, […]
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