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Madama Butterfly, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 14 February 2024
[…] extend beyond the glamour and excitement of premieres. For that reason and for their own sake, I try to sample older stagings I have not seen too and have made that a particular effort to explore these, both in opera and spoken theatre, for this spell in Berlin. Here, then is Staatsoper’s Madama Butterfly, in Eike Gramss’s production, first seen at the end of April 1991, when it was conducted by Fabio Luisi, with Miriam Gauci in the title role. Fashions change, of course, often rapidly so—and that certainly applies to opera staging. To see something hailing from less than two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall is to step back some time indeed (not helped by the realisation we reached the point some years hence that the post-Wall era had lasted longer than ever the Wall stood). German reunification and full sovereignty were little more than a […]
2020-04-24 18:23:00
Sergio Mims: Watch soprano Pretty Yende in Rossini's opera Ricciardo e Zoraide
ici Sergio A. Mims writes: You can watch now soprano Pretty Yende in a beautifully sung recent production of Rossini's rarely performed opera Ricciardo e Zoraide with tenor Juan Diego Florez taped at the 2018 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro Italy. As one review said "Pretty Yende, whose bright soprano was exciting and secure, sang Zoraide...She has beautiful super-high notes and a perfect picchiettato, and tended to employ them ubiquitously in her variations. Her legato and breath control were optimal, and her interpretation was a great success. Her love duet with Flórez was maybe the highlight of the evening; despite the corny setting and old-fashioned acting, their declaration of love was believable, and the second part of the duet (the slow part, in triple metre) moving and sweet." (ici Rossini - Ricciardo e Zoraide Dramma serio […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-04-07 20:29:10
Every Night A Singer Destroys This Artist’s Painting (And A New One Has To Be Created)
“It took artist Gerard Gauci a week to paint the whimsical portraits of sopranos Meghan Lindsay and Peggy Kriha Dye, which grace the stage of the Elgin Theatre in Opera Atelier’s Lucio SillaLucio Silla. But it only takes one minute for them to be destroyed when enraged dictator Lucio Silla punches one painting and stabs the other.”
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Royal Opera House
2015-11-13 00:51:36
Your Reaction: Carmen, Tchaikovsky Pas de deux, Afternoon of a Faun and Viscera live in cinemas
[…] (@BUBB1ES) November 12, 2015 Iana Salenko and Steven McRae in Tchaikovsky pas de deux © 2015 ROH. Photo by Tristram Kenton Tchaikovsky's pas de deux was like a firework display. @_stevenmcrae and @ianasalenko always bring the house down! #ROHcarmenmixed — Luca De Martino (@luquito96) November 12, 2015 Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux was absolutely breathtaking! I love the intricacy and beauty of the choreography! #ROHcarmenmixed — Rachel Gauci (@FlossyGRM) November 12, 2015 #ROHcarmenmixed funny, light and tender Faun; sparkling and elegant Tchaikovsky: a wonderful show and superbe dancers! Forlì-Italy — Paola Cestelli (@greendragonPaCe) November 12, 2015 Damn you, Tchaikovsky, and your magnificent crescendos. Just wow. #ROHcarmenmixed — Nemi (@AliceNemi) November 12, 2015 Sarah Lamb in Afternoon of a Faun © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper #ROHcarmenmixed : Sarah Lamb gorgeous […]
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