IDOMENEO. Whether it was opening night enthusiasm, active sabotage, or Hume foolishly seeking to have her cake and eat it too, the behavioral and spatial credibility so clearly sought rapidly descended into laughably melodramatic indulgence.
Die größte musikalische Überraschung des Abends war jedoch zweifellos Alexey Bogadnikov als Carlo Gerard. Sein italienisch geschulter, kräftiger, sowie elegant geführter Bariton, sowie sein anrührendes Spiel verliehen dem ehemaligen Diener und späteren Revolutions-Sekretär berührende Glaubwürdigkeit und führten die Ambivalenz und Zerrissenheit dieses Charakters glaubwürdig vor Augen.
Much has been written about the historical backgrounds of the Regietheater in opera, also in Opera Gazet. We can deal with historical explanations exhaustively as much as we like, but in the…
Opera is not a museum !
Direction and music on the one hand and the libretto on the other are barbarically made into unnatural enemies.
CHEREMUSHKI. The ensemble cast was uniformly excellent.
Pavarotti meets Alberti is een professionele voorstelling die draait om muziek en verlucht wordt met enkele vermakelijke en soms wat minder vermakelijke sketches.
Les contes alla Scala. Molto brava, nel ruolo di Antonia, Eleonora Buratto che porta avanti, insieme a pochi, pochissimi, altri, la tradizione della scuola di canto italiana.
Zu Hilfe, zu Hilfe, sonst bin ich verloren!
The full title of Shostakovich’s operetta is Moscow, Cheremushki (Москва, Черемушки), and it was a direct, explicit response to the very specific reality of the housing crisis in Soviet Russia in the 1950s.