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Tag Archives: Daniele Rustioni
Play your cards right: La fanciulla del West and Pique Dame at Opéra de Lyon
Puccini: La fanciulla del West Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame Opéra de Lyon, 15th-16th March 2024 For its spring festival, Opéra de Lyon gambled on a pair of new productions featuring works that both hinge on crucial card games. If Tatjana Gürbaca’s … Continue reading
Darkness and grandeur in Christophe Honoré’s staging of Don Carlos for Opéra de Lyon
Verdi: Don Carlos **** Opéra de Lyon, 17th March 2018 Verdi was obliged to cut music from Don Carlos so the Paris première finished before midnight, allowing the public time to catch the last trains home. Why didn’t he simply request an … Continue reading
Macbeth, Thane of Wall Street: Lyon’s Verdi Festival launches with “the Scottish opera”
Verdi: Macbeth *** Opéra de Lyon, 16th March 2018 Forget 11th-century Scotland. Ivo van Hove views Macbeth as an exploration of what people will do for power. With the world of finance dominating politics today, he sets Verdi’s opera in a Wall Street skyscraper … Continue reading
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Tagged Arseny Yakovlev, Daniele Rustioni, Elchin Azizov, Ivo van Hove, Macbeth, Opéra de Lyon, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Susanna Branchini, Verdi
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Grigolo’s Nemorino intoxicates Covent Garden in L’elisir d’amore
Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore *** Royal Opera House, 19th November 2014 The cheap Bordeaux masquerading as Dulcamara’s ‘elixir’ seemed to have an intoxicating effect on more than Nemorino last night. Conductor Daniele Rustioni’s zippy tempi – whilst welcome – weren’t always … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryn Terfel, Daniele Rustioni, Donizetti, Kiandra Howarth, L'elisir d'amore, Laurent Pelly, Levente Molnár, Lucy Crowe, Royal Opera, Vittorio Grigolo
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Latonia Moore a staggeringly good Aida at Covent Garden
Verdi: Aida **** The Royal Opera, 10th April 2011 When David McVicar’s production of Aida premièred at Covent Garden last spring, Antony Lias concluded, “All the Royal Opera now needs to do is find us an Aida worthy of singing … Continue reading
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Tagged Aida, Anna Smirnova, Brindley Sherratt, Daniele Rustioni, David McVicar, Dongwon Shin, Latonia Moore, Lukas Jakobski, Michael Volle, Royal Opera, Verdi
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