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2022-10-01 13:14:51
Ocean, thou mighty monster
Michael Spyres’s nobly moving Idomeneo wasn’t just a bravura triumph: singing strongly throughout, he brought more colors to his portrayal of the tortured king than I had experienced from others in the Ponnelle production.
2021-10-30 08:53:28
Everything is in the music: conductor Antonello Manacorda on returning to La Traviata at Covent Garden, balancing concert work & opera, & music-making being a journey rather than a single event
[…] about a clash of cultures.He prefers building a new production because he likes to work with directors. He is interested in the stage, the design, the process and working with a director, Antonello tends to attend all the rehearsals. He is interested in learning a piece and then confronting with the director so that the music is as important as the text.Conversely, he has never felt constrained by revivals. He conducted a revival of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's venerable production (dating back to the 1970s) of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Vienna State Opera and whilst the production is rather old-fashioned, he feels that Ponnelle was a genius and captured the spirit of the piece so that it is rather like going into a museum and seeing a masterwork. Nowadays we would not do a production like that, but Ponnelle's production is so well made. And Antonello frankly comments that the […]
2021-06-17 21:00:57
Idomeneo
Starring Elza van den Heever, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote, Matthew Polenzani, and Alan Opie, conducted by James Levine. Production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. From March 25, 2017.
2021-05-18 22:57:09
Idomeneo
Starring Elza van den Heever, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote, Matthew Polenzani, and Alan Opie, conducted by James Levine. Production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. From March 25, 2017.
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