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2024-01-17 17:37:00
Così fan tutte, Komische Oper, 14 January 2024
SchillertheaterImages: Monika RittershausFiordiligi – Penny Sofraniadou Dorabella – Susan Zarrabi Guglielmo – Hubert Zapiór Ferrando – Caspar Singh Despina – Alma Sadé Don Alfonso – Seth Carico Sempronio – Amer El-Erwadi Tizio – Goran JurenecDirector, set and costume designer – Kirill SerebrennikovImplementation of direction, choreography – Evgeny KulaginStaff director (Spielleitung) – Martha JurowskiCo-costume designer – Tatyana DolmatovskayaAssistant set designer – Nikolay SimonovDramaturgy – Beate Breidenbach, Maximilian HagemeyerLighting – Olaf FreeseVideo – Ilya ShagalovChoral Soloists of the Komische Oper (director: Jean-Christophe Charron) Orchestra of the Komische Oper Erina Yashima (conductor) There should never be a run-of-the-mill Così fan tutte: Mozart’s most exquisite opera, arguably his profoundest, and perhaps ultimately his greatest. (It is, at any rate, my current favourite, and not only because I heard it last.) This was certainly not it, whether in origin, direction, or performance. Indeed, this staging from Berlin’s Komische Oper is an outstanding achievement in almost every respect, […]
2023-07-19 10:41:00
Munich Opera Festival (1) - Così fan tutte, 17 July 2023
Nationaltheater Fiordiligi – Louise Alder Dorabella – Avery Amereau Guglielmo/Gulielmo – Konstantin Krimmel Ferrando – Sebastian Kohlhepp/Jonas Hacker Despina – Sandrine Piau Don Alfonso – Johannes Martin Kränzle Benedict Andrews (director) Magda Willi (set designs) Victoria Behr (costumes) Mark Van Denesse (lighting) Katja Leclerc (dramaturgy) Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Kamila Akhmedjanova) Bavarian State Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) Images: ©Wilfried HöslDon Alfonso (Johannes Martin Kränzle), Despina (Sandrine Piau) It is refreshing to find a Così fan tutte that takes the very greatest of Mozart and Da Ponte’s three masterpieces (for the most part) seriously. The amount of nonsense I have seen and heard said of it at least matches that for Don Giovanni. That the nonsense may be genuinely ‘felt’ is neither here nor there, we are not supposed to say that; uninformed misunderstanding is just that, whether it concern an artwork, politics, or particle physics. Benedict Andrews’s production […]
2023-06-13 14:45:00
Così fan tutte, Grange Festival Opera, 10 June 2023
Fiordiligi – Samantha Clarke Dorabella – Kitty Whately Guglielmo – Nicholas Lester Ferrando – Alessandro Fisher Despina – Carolina Lippo Don Alfonso – Christian Senn Martin Lloyd-Evans (director) Dick Bird (designs) Johanna Town (lighting) Grange Festival Chorus (chorus master: Tom Primrose) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits (conductor) Guglielmo (Nicholas Lester), Dorabella (Kitty Whately), Fiordiligi (Samantha Clarke), Ferrando (Alessandro Fisher)Images: Craig Fuller To Hampshire and The Grange for the second of what should for me be three productions of Così fan tutte this summer. I cannot yet comment on Munich (Benedict Andrews/Vladimir Jurowski) but Oslo (Katrine Wiedemann/Tobias Ringborg) makes for an interesting comparison. Both had good casts, though if pushed, I should say The Grange had the edge. Though there were a good few things to admire in conductor and orchestra in Oslo, here the wonderful Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and an inspired Kirill Karabits unquestionably offered the superior experience. It was, however, […]
2022-11-17 22:35:00
[…] from Peabody Conservatory. Moisés Salazar(Santa Ana, California)Moisés Salazar is a Mexican American tenor known for his rich romantic sound and broad range of vocal color. This season, he returned to Palm Beach Opera as Remendado in Carmen, as well as performing the 1st Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte with Merola Opera Program. During the 2021–22 season, Salazar appeared as Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, both 1st Priest and 1st Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte with Palm Beach Opera. Other operatic roles include Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Señor Alcalde (The Summer King), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Borsa (Rigoletto) and Camille (The Merry Widow). Salazar began singing in his family’s mariachi band, Trio Los Salazar, and is presently creating a concert series dedicated to Mexican folk music. Olivia Smith(Penticton, British Columbia, Canada) Canadian soprano Olivia Smith is completing her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music. Current engagements include Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with the Curtis Opera Theatre and Marguerite […]
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