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[…] The performance didn't really gel very well. The orch. was surprisingly sloppy and Runnicles seemed to be beating time at various points. The scene with the Venetian ambassador lost all momentum, for example. The most recent production, in November, 2009, had completely different problems. I heard the last performance, and Nicola Luisotti's conducting sounded so disengaged that I figured he was already mentally checked out and on his way to guest conduct elsewhere. Marco Vratogna shouted most of Jago. Zvetelina Vassileva was forgettable, and had so little chemistry with Johan Botha that she never looked at him during the love duet! Botha...what can one say? He sang like an angel; I know that I'll never hear a more beautiful sound in the love duet. But he could not act, was facially inexpressive, and not very mobile on stage. It was a really dispiriting performance. So it's a real thrill to […]
2019-05-29 08:40:26
[…] their own point of view, the fear felt by Tosca despite believing everything will be all right, and our own absolute sense of impending doom. As the curtain falls, three of the plot’s survivors can do nothing but take a few awkward steps. This only emphasises their own sickening sense of shame at the fact that all of the giants, the evil ones included, have now passed on. Angela Gheorghiu plays Tosca and Marco Vratogna Scarpia for some performances over the current run, while the opera also returns to the Royal Opera House in July 2020 with Anna Netrebko as Tosca, Brian Jagde as Cavaradossi and Bryn Terfel as Scarpia once more. By Sam Smith Tosca | 27 May – 20 June 2019 | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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Royal Opera House
2017-10-13 20:35:55
Watch Verdi's Otello on BBC Four on 15 October 2017
Jonas Kaufmann as Otello and Marco Vratogna as Iago in Otello, The Royal Opera © 2017 ROH. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore The Royal Opera's production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello will be broadcast on BBC Four at 10.30pm on Sunday 15 October 2017, and will be available on demand on BBC iPlayer. One of the major works of Italian...
2017-06-30 23:26:37
Leaving blood on the shirt
[…] tragedy is that he’s manipulated into losing all control, while Kaufmann, as ever, whether wowing us with a gorgeous messa di voce or fixing us with the patented Jonas Thousand Yard Stare (you know the one) is all control, all the time. The conductor was Antonio Pappano, and I’m going to let you guess whether (a): he once more demonstrated that nobody currently before the public better understands Italian opera, or (b): see (a). Marco Vratogna, tonight’s Iago, will never in his entire career sing one line as well as any one line sung by Kaufmann. But in many ways his performance was weirdly more satisfying than the hugely more talented Kaufmann’s. Vratogna is fun. He’s having fun, and he’s letting us see that. There’s a contract being made between performer and spectator in a way that there never is with Kaufmann, who invites us to View His Art. Vratogna […]
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