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La sonnambula
From the Vienna State Opera, Juan Diego Flórez, Daniela Fally and Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Guillermo García Calvo.
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Classical Music on Past Daily
2019-09-18 23:24:33
Guillermo Garcia-Calvo And Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña In Music Of Schubert, Baguer And Weber – 2012 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Guillermo Garcia-Calvo and Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona Y Nacional de Cataluña – May 6, 2012 – RNE-Radio Clasica – Subscribers get access: Become a Patron! Over to Spain this week for a concert by Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona Y Nacional de Cataluña, conducted by the extremely popular star-on-the-rise Guillermo Garcia-Calvo... The post appeared first on Past Daily.
2019-04-03 19:04:33
Anglais - Anna Pirozzi saves La Gioconda that Irène Theorin didn't sing
[…] and lascivious spy at the service of the Inquisition, a worthy heir of the Verdian Iago. The character was very well portrayed scenically by Gabriele Viviani. Vocally it remained correct but not memorable. La Gioconda includes the famous ballet ‘The dance of the hours”, which was very satisfactorily resolved in the soloist parts by Alessandro Riga and Letizia Giuliani. The orchestra and choir worked well in the hands of another debut, the Madrilene conductor Guillermo García Calvo. The production that was presented at Liceu of this imperfect, dark, gruesome opera of unnecessarily and pointlessly complicated plot was a restaging, allegedly renewed, of the production premiered in 2005 with stage direction, scenography and costumes by Pier Luigi Pizzi. The production, visually dull, uninventive, with excessively conventional actors’ direction, didn’t work 15 years ago and, despite the renovation, still doesn’t work now. On the 10th April La Gioconda will be […]
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2017-02-05 08:31:10
Nabucco is a role for the 70s
Placido Domingo has sung the young Verdi’s old king at Covent Garden and the Met at the age of 75. Running him close is Leo Nucci, the specialist Italian Verdi baritone, who is presently singing Nabucco at the Vienna State Opera. Nucci will be 75 in April. He shows no sign of strain. If the voice has lost a little lustre at the lower edge, there is no lack of voltage and the naturalness of his delivery is a delight. At full power, his is still an instrument of wonder. photo: Vienna Opera/Michael Poehn Guenter Kraemer’s 2001 production requires him to suffer a stroke during Abigaille’s coup and to make a miraculous recovery in the third act. He brings tears to the eyes with his disability and a little gulp of joy at his incredulous return to full health. You would not want to meet Anna Smirnova’s Abigaille without […]
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