María José Montiel News
Spanish opera mezzo-soprano
- mezzo-soprano
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- opera singer, musician
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2019-04-03 19:04:33
Anglais - Anna Pirozzi saves La Gioconda that Irène Theorin didn't sing
[…] of the cast there was a little bit of everything. Dolora Zajick, who debuted at Liceu 30 years ago and who has already announced that she will retire professionally in 2021, is in great vocal shape. Her Laura, Gioconda’s love rival, was magnificently sung. Scenically, however, she didn’t render the character at all and, battling with a scenography that made her go up and down the stairs constantly, she and we struggled. María José Montiel delivered a good Cieca, Gioconda’s mother. However, a darker tone and greater lower resonance would have gone well with the mysterious character. Brian Jagde, debuting at Liceu, is a brave North American tenor, with a potent voice and not very refined style. In the role of Enzo Grimaldo, his “Cielo e mar!” became more stentorian than beautiful. The character afforded more. Ildebrando D’Arcangelo was singing the role of Alvise Badoero, the Venetian […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-06-29 20:36:11
Latin Accents at Shalin Liu
With patrons in yellow slickers, a sky occulted by fog, the surf pounding in a strong wind, and the air chilled, the atmospherics for the Rockport Chamber Music Festival on Sunday bespoke Sea Drift or Peter Grimes rather than sultry South American zephyrs, but that’s what imaginations are for. And the Cuarteto Latinoamericano produced ample sustenance for that imaginative escape in its music from south (sometimes very far south) of the border. The quartet consists of the Bitrán brothers (Saúl and Arón, violins, and Alvaro, cello) and Javier Montiel, viola; they are probably the best known quartet in Latin America, having formed 30 years ago in Mexico and establishing strong connections throughout the Western Hemisphere (they were in residence for many years at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh) and through global touring. We have known them only through their recordings, chiefly of the complete quartets (17 in all) of Villa-Lobos, though their […]
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Royal Opera House
2014-11-12 14:52:38
What Don Quixote's tall tales can tell us about our own fantasies
Will Tuckett and Kristen McNally in Don Quixote, The Royal Ballet © ROH/Johan Persson, 2013 Cervantes ’s Don Quixote tells the story of Alonso Quixano, a gentleman of about fifty. He has lost his wits, having read too many popular stories about the adventures of chivalric knights and deprived himself of too much sleep in the process. He fills his mind, we are told, with ‘enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, torments and other impossible nonsense’. The fictions that entertain him become more real to him than real life. Quixano assumes the role of a knight-errant (a roaming hero and defender of the good) and sets out across the plainsof Montiel in La Mancha to find adventure and achieve amazing feats, in the manner of his favourite fictional heroes. He renames himself Don Quixote de La Mancha, because it sounds nobler, and his horse Rocinante – more appropriate for […]
2010-01-02 17:09:00
[…] Paul Fouchecourt, conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce. Dwojka Polskie Radio - From the Vienna State Opera, a June 2009 performance of Gounod's Faust, with Soile Isokoski, Zoryana Kushpler, Roxana Constantinescu, Piotr Beczala, Kwangchul Youn, Boaz Daniel and Hans Peter Kammerer, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. France Musique - From Opéra Bastille in Paris, a December 18 performance of Giordano's Andréa Chenier, with Marcelo Alvarez, Sergei Murzaev, Micaela Carosi, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Stefania Toczyska, Maria José Montiel, André Heyboer, Igor Gnidii, Antoine Garcin, David Bizic, Carlo Bosi, Bruno Lazzaretti, Ugo Rabec and Guillaume Antoine, conducted by Daniel Oren. KBIA2 & KOHM - NPR World of Opera: From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers, with Olga Guryakova, Vsevolod Grivnov, Larissa Diadkova, Vladimir Matorin, Sergei Leiferkuss, Maxim Mikhailov, Vyacheslav Voynarovsky, Alexander Vassiliev and John Upperton, conducted by Alexander Polianichko. MDR Figaro - From the Royal Opera House, […]
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