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2019-07-11 08:32:55
La forza del destino: Verdi's sprawling masterpiece in a highly picturesque production at the Paris Opera
Verdi: La forza del destino - Opera National de Paris (Photo Julien Benhamou / OnP) Verdi La forza del destino; Elena Stikhina, Brian Jagde, Zeljko Lucic, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Rafal Siwek, Gabriele Viviani, dir: Jean-Claude Auvray/Stephen Taylor, cond: Nicola Luisotti; Opera National de Paris Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 July 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A finely balanced cast brings strong musical values to this revival of Jean-Claude Auvray's handsome 2011 production Verdi: La forza del destino - Brian Jagde, Elena StikhinaOpera National de Paris (Photo Julien Benhamou / OnP) Jean-Claude Auvray's 2011 production of Verdi's La forza del destino was revived at Paris' Opera Bastille (revival director Stephen Taylor) for ten performances of which we caught the last (9 July 2019). Nicola Luisotti conducted with Elena Stikhina as Leonora, Brian Jagde as Don Alvaro, Zeljko Lucic as Don Carlo, Varduhi Abrahamyan as Preziosilla, Rafal […]
2018-12-03 21:15:00
[…] phrased at all. A few too many disjunctures between pit and stage were skilfully retrieved, yet all in all – and this is quite a different thing from minutes on the clock – the pace somewhat dragged, a greater sense of the musical whole proving elusive. There was not much to glean, either, from Thomas Allen’s production. It was less aggressively, even offensively ‘traditional’ than the FigaroI last saw at the RCM (Jean-Claude Auvray, 2012), yet it would be difficult to claim any great insights. (Not that an extraordinarily disruptive – drunken? – audience, laughing and applauding almost every bar, seemed to seek insight; alas, the Glyndebourne Guffaw Brigade seemed very much to be at large.) Notwithstanding a strange initial preoccupation with babies, soon dropped, as it were, the production was very much school of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, albeit on a necessarily less grand scale. What worked in the […]
2014-12-02 09:57:50
Review – Die Zauberflöte (Royal College of Music, Britten Theatre, Saturday 29 November 2014) Tamino – Nick Pritchard Papageno – Timothy Connor Pamina – Sofia Larsson Die Konigin der Nacht – He Wu Sarastro – Matthew Buswell Drei Damen – Gemma Lois Summerfield, Angela Simkin & Maria Ostroukhova Drei Knabe – Louise Fuller, Katie Coventry & Polly Leech Papagena – Turiya Haudenhuyse Monostratos – Peter Aisher Director – Jean-Claude Auvray Designer – Ruari Murchison Lighting Designer – Michael Doubleday Royal College of Music Orchestra Michael Rosewell (Conductor) The Britten Theatre was the perfect venue for a very strong production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte by the students of the Royal College of Music under the direction of Michael Rosewell. There’s something almost ‘life affirming’ about attending a performance of such high musical, vocal and instrumental standards, performed with such passion, commitment and […]
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