Nicolo Grimaldi News
Italian opera singer
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- opera singer, stage actor
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A live opening night broadcast from Bologna with Erika Grimaldi, Claudio Sgura, and Luciano Ganci conducted by Oksana Lyniv
2023-12-06 18:04:00
Metropolitan Opera. Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas. December 5, 2023.
Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Orchestra (Seat Y101, $122).Ailyn Perez at curtain call. The other principal cast members are: The Captain, Arcadio, Rosalba, Riolobo, Alvaro, and Paula.Story. See previous post.Conductor - Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Florencia Grimaldi - Ailyn Perez, Rosalba - Gabriella Reyes, Arcadio - Mario Chang, Paula - Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Alvaro - Michael Chioldi, Captain - Greer Grimsley, Riolobo - Mattia Olivieri.A while ago a Lincoln Center email offered a 20% discount for the opera. Because of scheduling issues, only I could get to tonight's performance.I saw this opera in Washington DC, in 2014, while tagging along with Anne on her business trip. That time I went by myself also. While my review of that performance was just so-so, I still remember a few things about it: it was in Spanish, a young Chinese-American woman was the conductor, the set was simple, there was some dancing involved, and the protagonist […]
2022-06-17 11:45:01
Strong meat: Grange Park Opera stages Ponchielli's rarity, La Gioconda in a performance that full embraces the work's drama
[…] Opera gave it in concert in 2004, and Opera Holland Park staged it in 2008. Our most recent encounter with the opera was in Brussels in 2019 [see my review]. Grange Park Opera planned to stage the work in 2020, and now finally this has come to pass.We caught Grange Park Opera's performance of Ponchielli's La gioconda on Thursday 16 June 2022. Directed by Stephen Medcalf, it featured Amanda Echalaz as Gioconda, Joseph Calleja as Enzo Grimaldi, Elisabetta Fiorillo as La Cieca, David Stout as Barnaba, Marco Spotti as Alvise Badoero and Ruxandra Donose as Laura. Stephen Barlow conducted the Gascoigne Orchestra. Designs were by Francis O'Connor, movement by Sarah Fahie and lighting by Tim Mitchell.Ponchielli: La gioconda - Amanda Echalaz - Grange Park Opera 2022 (Photo Marc Brenner)It is tricky to understand La gioconda without comprehending the vogue for French Grand Opera that spread in Italy from the 1860s. Verdi wrote […]
2021-06-25 16:43:46
Today we discovered a wonderful classical composition! aura by Raffaele Grimaldi Check it out, you
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