Verdi: La forza del destino ***
Zurich Opera, 2nd June 2018
Remember that bit at the end of La forza del destino, where the Marquis of Calatrava and Don Carlo welcome Leonora back into the bosom of their family? You don’t? Then you’ve clearly dodged a bullet in missing Andreas Homoki’s wilful staging at Oper Zürich. By the end of Verdi’s opera, all three characters are dead, long since in the case of the Marquis whose accidental death at the end of Act 1 sparks the whole revenge tragedy. Yet, Homoki resurrects him as Padre Guardiano – without a hint of ecclesiastical garb – turning the opera into Leonora’s nightmare fantasy.
Christof Fischesser, George Petean (Carlo), Hibla Gerzmava (Leonora) and Marcelo Puente (Alvaro)
© Monika Rittershaus
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