Verdi: Il corsaro ***
Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, 28th March 2018
By the time it premiered in Trieste in 1848, Giuseppe Verdi had rather fallen out of love with Il corsaro, his piratical opera based on Byron’s poem. Indeed, he didn’t even bother showing up to the first performance. His initial enthusiasm for the work, originally intended for London, waned in the wake of postponements and rearranged plans. It’s an opera which has never found a foothold in the repertoire so Nicola Raab’s new staging at Valencia’s looming spaceship of a house, the Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia, tempted me to cast anchor for Spain.
Oksana Dyka (Gulnara)
© Miguel Lorenzo and Mikel Ponce | Les Arts
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