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Tag Archives: Carlos Álvarez
“Esultate!” Kunde’s Otello impresses at Covent Garden
Verdi: Otello Royal Opera, 9th December 2019 It’s good to have expectations confounded. For much of his career, American tenor Gregory Kunde specialised in bel canto repertoire, his light, flexible voice ideal for Rossini with easy top notes that also … Continue reading
Political intrigues at the Royal Opera as Simon Boccanegra returns
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra **** Royal Opera, 15th November 2018 The air in London is rife with conspiracy, recrimination and infighting. But away from Westminster, political machinations and a baying mob are also at the heart of Simon Boccanegra, returning to the … Continue reading
Softly awakes my cold, cold heart: a tepid Samson et Dalila in Vienna
Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila *** Wiener Staatsoper, 12th May 2018 Strip Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila of its biblical setting and what have you got left? An individual who succumbs to temptation and forfeits his life to kill hundreds of his religious enemies. … Continue reading
Tears of blood among the cherry blossoms: La Scala make amends with a return to Puccini’s original Madama Butterfly
Puccini: Madama Butterfly **** Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 7th December 2016 For years I’ve wondered why Cio-Cio San refers to her bridegroom as F.B. Pinkerton when the Imperial Commissioner names him as Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton in the wedding ceremony. Was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvis Hermanis, Annalisa Stroppa, Bryan Hymel, Carlo Bosi, Carlos Álvarez, La Scala, Madama Butterfly, Maria José Siri, Nicole Brandolino, Puccini, Riccardo Chailly, Teatro alla Scala
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Pountney points the Finger of Fate: La forza del destino from Vienna
Verdi: La forza del destino Zubin Mehta/Wiener Staatsoper (C major) Who would have guessed that Verdi’s La forza del destino is an opera filled with coincidental encounters, fickle fate and sheer rotten luck? If you miss that point in David … Continue reading
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Tagged Alastair Miles, Carlos Álvarez, IRR, La forza del destino, Nadia Krasteva, Nina Stemme, Salvatore Licitra, Tiziano Bracci, Verdi, Wiener Staatsoper, Zubin Mehta
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