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2020-02-04 07:29:24
New operas, a new team - Welsh National Opera approaches its 75th anniversary
[…] Pavlova as Marguérite, Gareth Brynmor John as Valentin and Katie Bray as Siébel. There is no word yet of which version of the opera is being used grand opera/opera comique, recitative/spoken dialogue, ballet/no ballet, but it is a production with Teater Magdeburg (as was Fuchs' Der Rosenkavalier) so we can expect something rather interesting.The Spring season is completed with a revival of Peter Watson's production of Verdi's Il Trovatore conducted by Pietro Rizzi with Mary Elizabeth Williams as Leonore. Williams has made a big impression in the two recent David Pountney Verdi productions, Un ballo in maschera [see my review] and La forza del destino [see my review], and we also caught her on form in Verdi's Don Carlos (in French) in Flanders [see my review] so we await her Leonore with keen interest.As well as the opera, Tomáš Hanus will be conducting three concerts with the WNO Orchestra as […]
2019-10-30 07:27:19
A remarkable reinvention: Verdi's Don Carlos in French in Flanders
Verdi: Don Carlos - the Auto-da-fe scene - Opera Vlaanderen (Photo Annemie Augustijns) Verdi Don Carlos (1886 Modena version, sung in French); Leonardo Capalbo, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Kartal Karagedik, Raehann Bryce-Davis, dir: Johan Simons, cond: Alejo Perez; Opera Vlaanderen at Opera Ghen Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 Oct 2019 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Verdi's final thoughts on his Grand Opera, given in a strikingly modern psychological interpretationHaving given us French Grand Opera at its height, with Peter Konwitschny's striking production of Fromental Halevy's La Juive earlier this year [see my review], Opera Vlaanderen has returned to the form with Verdi's Don Carlos, the Italian composer's final, remarkable engagement with French Grand Opera. But the new production of Don Carlos was also an indication of the possible directions for the company, as one of the dramaturges was Jan Vandenhouwe who is the company's […]
2019-02-10 18:34:45
A jolly good show: Verdi's 'Un ballo in maschera' at WNO
[…] elements seem to have gone into the company's new production.Welsh National Opera opened their Spring 2019 season at the Wales Millennium Centre on Saturday 9 February 2019, in the presence of the company's patron HRH the Prince of Wales, with the second of the planned Verdi trilogy directed by David Pountney, Un ballo in maschera, with set designs by Raimund Bauer and costumes by Marie-Jeanne Lecca, the production featured Gwyn Hughes Jones as Riccardo, Mary Elizabeth Williams as Amelia, Roland Wood as Renato, Julie Martin du Theil as Oscar, and Sara Fulgoni as Ulrica, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Pountney's interest in the Gothick elements in Un ballo in maschera brought out the theme of death, which inevitably hangs over the opera. The performance opened with a coup, Oscar (Julie Martin du Theil) and Ulrica (Sara Fulgoni) mourning on Riccardo's catafalque, with the courtiers in attendance. Then part of the […]
2019-02-10 17:31:53
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffA Swedish king rises from his coffin in David Pountney’s playfully vamped up staging of Verdi’s opera, supported by exceptional principal performances Welsh National Opera’s new staging of the opera that crowns the middle of Verdi’s career is musically very fine indeed, with exceptional performances from all its principals. In this second of WNO’s three-year Verdi trilogy, tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones and soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams reinforce the successful pairing in last year’s La Forza del Destino, their singing as distinguished as it is moving. And with skeletons a dominant presence in the final scene, this might be described as a rattlingly good production. Given that the opera is based on the
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