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Tag Archives: Luca Salsi
Netrebko and Pappano pack a punch at Salzburg: La Gioconda
Ponchielli: La Gioconda Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 23rd March 2024 There’s more to La Gioconda than The Dance of the Hours, although Disney’s animated classic Fantasia boosted the ballet music’s fame. The Royal Opera House has never staged Amilcare Ponchielli’s opera … Continue reading
Oliver Mears turns La Gioconda into a tale of abuse at the Salzburg Easter Festival
Ponchielli: La Gioconda Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 23rd March 2024 Amilcare Ponchielli’s La Gioconda is an opera it’s easy to scoff at: unlikely coincidences, disguises and fake poisons pile on top of each other at every turn in a tale of … Continue reading
Scarpia stabbed, Tosca smothered by Livermore’s La Scala staging
Puccini: Tosca Teatro alla Scala, 7th December 2019 A stone lion pins down its prey in Scarpia’s study, symbolic, no doubt, of the cat-and-mouse game the Chief of Police plays with Tosca in Act 2. But it could also represent … Continue reading
Codes of honour trip up Bechtolf’s Ernani at La Scala
Verdi: Ernani *** Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 29th September 2018 George Bernard Shaw admired the “fierce noonday sun” of the score to Ernani. “The one with the bandits” evens gets a glancing mention in his play, Arms and the Man. I’m not … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Fischer, Ailyn Pérez, Ernani, Francesco Meli, Ildar Abdrazakov, Luca Salsi, Matteo Desole, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Teatro alla Scala, Verdi
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A Traviata to blow away the cobwebs at The Royal Opera
Verdi: La traviata **** The Royal Opera, 16th January 2016 Even we Verdi enthusiasts experience something of a heavy tread as we wend our way to yet another Traviata at the Royal Opera House. Richard Eyre’s classic production is revived … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Crowley, Daniel Dooner, La traviata, Luca Salsi, Richard Eyre, Samuel Sakker, Sarah Pring, Venera Gimadieva, Verdi, Yves Abel
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