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2024-01-26 12:46:39
Royal Opera House, LondonThis revival of Richard Jones’s 2017 staging sees the diva return to the stage and the role that made her name, and if Gheorghiu doesn’t quite sparkle as she did 30 years ago, there is superb support from her fellow bohemiansThe centenary of Puccini’s death falls later this year, and the Royal Opera has effectively opened the commemorations and tributes with a big revival, the fourth , of Richard Jones’s 2017 staging of La Bohème. There are three casts, of which this was the second: the performance also marked the return of
2024-01-22 16:52:18
She calls herself ‘the world’s most glamorous opera star’, and always knew that her destiny was to be on stage. Can the Romanian diva possibly live up to her reputation? You bet …‘I like to say,” says Angela Gheorghiu confidentially, “that the fairies visited me when I was born and gave me what I needed to be an artist.” This visit took place 58 years ago in a town called Adjud, when little Angela became first child to a seamstress mother and train driver father. Her parents must have been surprised since in Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania, fairies, like political dissent, did not officially exist.Even fairies could not have foreseen how Gheorghiu would turn out. The woman sharing a sofa with me in a windowless room in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, is one of the world’s leading sopranos. She is back in her beloved London to sing Mimi in Puccini’s […]
2023-12-29 14:49:53
LEBRECHT LISTENS | Angela Gheorghiu Explores Puccini’s Rare Gems
Angela Gheorghiu revives Puccini's overlooked melodies in 'A te, Puccini', offering a fresh take on the maestro's less-celebrated compositions
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2023-11-14 15:43:22
The Romanian soprano has produced an album of... The post Angela Gheorghiu records a Puccini premiere first appeared on Slippedisc. The post Angela Gheorghiu records a Puccini premiere appeared first on Slippedisc.
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