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2019-02-23 03:30:00
Verdi - Jérusalem- First complete recording
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)Marina Mescheriakova, Marcello GiordaniRoberto Scandiuzzi, Philippe RouillonChoeur du Grand Théâtre de GenèveL'Orquestre de la Suisse Romandedir: Fabio LuisiLabel; Philips (2000) 462 613-2 PH3 DDD 3 CDRecorded at the Victoria Hall of Geneva , 18-25 August 1998.[flac&cue; cover,inlays,disc&booklet scans] Here's Jérusalem, an adaptation of his original opera, I lombardi alla prima crociata (my previous post) to be presented in Paris in 1847. I thought it was interesting to compare their differences. And there are plenty of them: " there are significant changes in the location and action of the French version of Lombardi, especially given the need to set the story for French involvement in […]
2016-08-17 16:13:07
Pièce de résistance
After enduring a pitiful performance of Verdi’s Aida at one of Italy’s most beautiful opera houses—Napoli’s Teatro San Carlo—in an ugly, mindless production performed in the “any arm you can raise, I can raise higher” style of acting, I was hopeful that my next operatic engagement would offer greater rewards: Norma at the Edinburgh Festival. My first introduction to Bellini’s Norma—or selection thereof—was on a multi-LP collection of operatic scenes and arias. I can’t recall the name of the album (maybe one of Parterre’s illustrious contributors will recall) but among the selections I remember were Sherrill Milnes singing “Nulla silenzio” from Il Tabarro, the final scene of Berg’s Lulu, and Montserrat Caballe singing “Casta diva”. As a teenager in the 70’s I did not always have the funds to buy complete opera LPs, so more often than not my first experience hearing an opera was in the opera house […]
2016-03-25 18:24:17
I want your Essex
During its first-ever Roberto Devereux Thursday evening one felt transported back to the Volpe years: four of the Met’s biggest stars shining in an opulent (if occasionally perverse) but reassuringly non-challenging production paid for by Sybil B. Harrington. Unfortunately, Sondra Radvanovsky, Elina Garanca, Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien were consistently undermined by the shockingly aimless conducting of Maurizio Benini, and so the gala premiere turned out to be less than the sum of its impressive parts. Donizetti’s darkly grim opera about the aged Queen Elizabeth I’s deluded passion for the dashing—and decades younger—Earl of Essex rounded out the Met’s so-called “Tudor Trilogy” all produced by Sir David McVicar. In fact, it was a gift from the Harrington Endowment Fund that made possible McVicar’s seventh Met show in seven years, the first for which he served as his own scenic designer. The generally vivid and intense interaction between the four […]
2013-04-07 23:08:00
This Week in Toronto (April 8 - 21)
Anna Christy as Lucia in the ENO production which is coming to the COC (photo: Clive Barda) The eagerly anticipated spring season of the Canadian Opera Company is finally upon us. The first of three operas opens on Wednesday April 17th 7:30 pm at the Four Seasons Centre. The second performance is on Saturday April 20th at 7:30 pm. It's the ever-popular Lucia di Lammermoor. This Donizetti warhorse was seen actually not all that long ago at the COC when it was staged for Russian soprano Marina Mescheriakova, a frequent visiting artist a dozen years ago. This time around, it is the wonderful American soprano Anna Christy, whose voice I first heard in Santa Fe some years ago. Edgardo is American tenor Stephen Costello, and Enrico is American baritone Brian Mulligan. Stephen Lord conducts the COC Orchestra. The production comes from the English National Opera directed by David Alden. Of […]
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