Tag Archives: Riccardo Chailly

Beethoven 250: Riccardo Chailly on the nine symphonies

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Mark Pullinger

Interview: Riccardo Chailly 27th January 2020 During his tenure as chief conductor of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig from 2005 to 2016, Riccardo Chailly undertook what amounted to a re-evaluation of Beethoven’s music, performing and recording the cycle of nine symphonies, taking … Continue reading →

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Scarpia stabbed, Tosca smothered by Livermore’s La Scala staging

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

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 →

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Taking flight from the Scala pit: Riccardo Chailly and the Filarmonica della Scala on tour

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

Filarmonia della Scala/ Chailly ***** Barbican, 24th January 2018 La Scala doesn’t quite roll out the red carpet for Riccardo Chailly, but they do ferry around a podium upholstered with red velvet carpet and matching handrail. If Chailly is maestro royalty, … Continue reading →

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Rossini’s Thieving Magpie doesn’t quite take flight at La Scala

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Rossini: La gazza ladra *** Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 12th April 2017 Everyone knows the overture to La gazza ladra. It’s the one that begins with a pair of snare drums snarling across opposite sides of the orchestra which then … Continue reading →

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Plums and turkeys: a musical voyage around 2016

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Most people I know cannot wait to see the back of 2016. But in the year in which Brexit, Trump and the Grim Reaper were the big winners, I admit to having had a terrific twelve months. A whirl of … Continue reading →

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