Bastarda @ Brussels De Munt/Monnaie
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by giardinoarmida
10M ago
The idea of the show Bastarda is to tell the story of Queen Elisabeth I from childhood through abdication by mixing 4 of Donizetti’s operas over two evenings. In order of composition they are Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829), Anna Bolena (1830), Maria Stuarda (1834) and Roberto Devereux (1837). When the curtain rises, 2 narrators recite the historic context while a ..read more
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Yevgeni Onegin @ De Munt/La Monnaie
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by giardinoarmida
1y ago
Not sure what I have to think about the new staging of Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin this February at De Munt/La Monnaie. It might have been the cold that was creeping up, an overall sense of sad anticipation (I was bringing friends who rarely go to the opera), I don’t know…but yet again it was one ..read more
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Le convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali @ Piacenza
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by giardinoarmida
1y ago
Sono molto grato al Teatro municipale di Piacenza per la serata estremamente soddisfacente dovuta alla rappresentazione de Le convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali di Gaetano Donizetti. L’opera ha musica molto piacevole e si presta benissimo ad essere adattata ad altri tempi, luoghi o realtà e meriterebbe di essere rappresentata piu spesso. Alberto Mattioli ha dunque riadattato ..read more
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Les Huguenots @ De Munt/La Monnaie
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by giardinoarmida
1y ago
It is such a pleasure to see this production again after it was first performed in 2011. The staging by Olivier Py remained fixed in my memory as if it was yesterday: the stairs opening to Marguerite standing under the moon, the crosses used as swords, the confrontations between the choirs in Act 3, the ..read more
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Il Turco in Italia@La Scala
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by giardinoarmida
2y ago
Among the buffo operas by Rossini it is  Il Turco in Italia which seems the most interesting to me in many ways. The presence of the Poet, for exemple, offers a piece of metatheatre rarely observed in opera, he is the one in search of a subject, commenting the plot while writing it. He is also constantly ..read more
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Mortelmans’ De kinderen der zee @ Bozar
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by giardinoarmida
2y ago
Lodewijk Mortelmans is not particularly well-known to the wider public, his name being linked mainly to the genre of the lied. His wish to create an opera came into being when he found the libretto by Raphael Verhulst, which inspired him to create his only opera De kinderen der zee. The story unfolds around a ..read more
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Porpora’s Polifemo @ Bayreuth
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by giardinoarmida
2y ago
  Nicola Porpora, largely forgotten today, was one of the most renowned composer of his time. He composed almost 40 operas staged mainly in Naples, Rome Venice and London. In Rome he met the young Handel who would later be a musical rival. Though many accounts of his life might exaggerate the rivalry between composers, it ..read more
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Paër’s Leonora @ Innsbrucker Festwochen der alten Musik
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by giardinoarmida
3y ago
Ferdinando Paër belongs to the group of composers between Mozart and Rossini which include Cimarosa, Paisiello, Mayr and many others, and who are today largely forgotten. Only very few rediscoveries are recorded on disc, and even fewer presented on stage. Which is a pity because Paër has no fewer requisites than any other belcanto composer ..read more
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Les Huguenots @ Genève
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by giardinoarmida
3y ago
A performance of a grand opéra, and especially one by Giacomo Meyerbeer, is always an event not to be missed. Unfortunately the staging was far from pleasurable. One issue I had, it drew inspiration from Regietheater. The opera, set in the late 40s judging from the clothes, starts with corpses in the church which get ..read more
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Peer Gynt @ Concertgebouw Brugge
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by giardinoarmida
3y ago
Seen the rare performances of Peer Gynt, I thought I might never seen it on stage. Edvard Grieg’s skill to set the deeply philosophical drama by Ibsen into music, characterizing the different characters with profound empathy was quite extraordinary. Some of the text interacts very strictly with the music for example when trolls haunt Peer ..read more
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