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2019-10-30 07:27:19
A remarkable reinvention: Verdi's Don Carlos in French in Flanders
[…] across an account of the role which was both coherent dramatically and well sung. So that vocally as well as dramatically, King and Inquisitor were well balanced.The smaller roles, many taken by members of the company's young artists studio, were very well taken, with Justin Hopkins as the Monk/Charles V, Stephan Adriaens as the Herald and the Comte de Lerme. The roles of the Flemish Deputies in the Auto-da-Fe scene (Justin Hopkins, Patrick Cromheeke, Thierry Vallier, Simon Schmidt, Guido Verbelen, Mark Gough) are easily slid over by a critic, but watching the opera given by a Flemish company in Flanders made you realise that, for all the artistic licence and liberties taken with history, the work was dealing with real history.The chorus, often present watching from behind the scrim and sometimes singing from there rather than taking part in the action, was a strong, powerful presence. Conductor Alejo Perez drew […]
2016-05-23 21:54:00
Jean-Michel Richer (Comte Vallier de Tilly) et Etienne Dupuis (Simon Doucet)Photo, Yves Renaud Saturday night’s world premiere of Les Feluetteswas an accomplishment long in the making. A co-commission by Opéra de Montréal and Pacific Opera Victoria, the opera was conceived by Australian composer Kevin March, who saw the English movie adaptation, Lilies, over a decade ago. Set in a men’s prison in the 1950s and 1910s, the story is popular in Quebec through the play by Michel Marc Bouchard. Bishop Jean Bilodeau (tenor Gordon Gietz) visits the prison to hear the last confession of his boyhood friend Simon Doucet, played by baritone Gino Quilico. In a Man of La Mancha-style construction, the all-Canadian, all-male cast of inmates stage an opera-within-an-opera for the Bishop, who must reckon with his past. Deception, obsession, betrayal, and murder—Bouchard’s story has all of the trappings of a great opera. Old Simon forces Bilodeau to watch on […]
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