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Edoardo Pelligra

Edoardo Pelligra

Edoardo is a philosophy student in Torino, Italy. He has always been fond of classical music and operas and tries to combine his philosophical studies with music and especially philosophy of music. He is particularly enthusiastic about opera modern adaptations. Edoardo also maintains a strong passion for films, literature and travelling. He also writes reviews in Italian for Operaclick.

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A punk, post-industrial Siegfried at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo

By Edoardo Pelligra, 20 December 2015

Despite this mis-en-scene’s lack of intensity, this Siegfried closed the 2015 season of the Teatro Massimo with an outstanding musical performance.

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A punk, post-industrial Siegfried in Palermo

By Edoardo Pelligra

Tate's masterful conducting of Idomeneo opens new season at La Fenice

By Edoardo Pelligra, 28 November 2015

Promising young South-African director Alessandro Talevi opened the new season at the Teatro La Fenice with a new mis-en-scene of Mozart's Idomeneo.

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Tate's masterful conducting of Idomeneo

By Edoardo Pelligra

Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Turin: Baroque astonishment and wonder

By Edoardo Pelligra, 26 November 2015

Though musically played with participation and sensitivitythe, this production was full of jugglers, acrobats, dancers, circus performers and mimes.

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Baroque astonishment and wonder in Turin

By Edoardo Pelligra

Death circle of the House of the Atreidai: Elektra in Bologna

By Edoardo Pelligra, 15 November 2015

A pure and intense evening of music, which deserved the warm ovation of the audience at the end of the execution.

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Elektra in Bologna

By Edoardo Pelligra

Cold light rays, grim backdrops, disturbing shadows: Macbeth according to Robert Wilson

By Edoardo Pelligra, 17 October 2015

Thanks to Wilson, to an orchestra in great shape, and to an excellent cast, this production was a success. Everybody did his best in the orchestra and in the chorus, without disregarding the soring passages of the score.

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Macbeth according to Robert Wilson

By Edoardo Pelligra

Teatro Regio joins Expo’s cultural wave with a flavourless Norma

By Edoardo Pelligra, 17 July 2015

Visually traditional, this Norma often indulged on the most predictable aspects of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera, unfortunately missing the opportunity of bringing a bigger audience to the theatre and showcasing the vastness of Italian opera.

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Teatro Regio joins Expo’s cultural wave with a flavourless Norma

By Edoardo Pelligra

A Faust between sulphur and damnation at Teatro Regio in Turin

By Edoardo Pelligra, 09 June 2015

Stefano Poda’s deeply intellectual mis-en-scene immersed the bourgeois love affair between Marguerite and Faust in an abstract and transcendental tangle of philosophical, existential and liturgical motifs. However, an overflowing symbolism sounded sometimes academic, but the visual effects were suggestive if not properly enchanting.

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A Faust between sulphur and damnation

By Edoardo Pelligra

Humperdinck's bright Hänsel und Gretel in Turin

By Edoardo Pelligra, 06 May 2015

Vittorio Borrelli’s production of Hänsel und Gretel in Turin offers a refined mise-en-scène focusing on the tiny, playful and colourful aspects of the plot.

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Humperdinck's bright Hänsel und Gretel in Turin

By Edoardo Pelligra

A sombre mis-en-scene for Bellini's I puritani in Turin

By Edoardo Pelligra, 19 April 2015

Despite its happy ending, Vincenzo Bellini’s last opera I puritani is a 19th century opera permeated by deathly shadows, disenchantment, fading of love and sentiments forced or burdened by political intrigues.

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Bellini's I puritani in Turin

By Edoardo Pelligra

Rossini's Il turco in Italia: the strife of a poet pining for inspiration

By Edoardo Pelligra, 12 March 2015

Alden’s mise-en-scène developed the most modern aspects of Il turco's libretto. The stage not only showed what the Poet was participating towards, but the other characters also seemed to perform the poet’s conception of his own work.

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Rossini's Il turco in Italia: the strife of a poet pining for inspiration

By Edoardo Pelligra

Le nozze di Figaro in Turin: a triumph of love and classicism

By Edoardo Pelligra, 15 February 2015

Elena Barbalich's mis-en-scene for Le nozze di Figaro in Turin seemed a swirling game of Chinese boxes, but the vocal performances were full of vitality.

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Figaro in Turin: a triumph of love and classicism

By Edoardo Pelligra

Shades of solitude in Teatro Regio's new diptych: Goyescas and Suor Angelica

By Edoardo Pelligra, 18 January 2015

An intriguing combination which mixes up together the exuberant sensuality of Granados’ one-act-opera, the gloomy shades and the melancholy liturgy of Suor Angelica.

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Teatro Regio's new diptych: Goyescas and Suor Angelica

By Edoardo Pelligra

Impassioned Russian repertoire from the Mariinsky Orchestra in Turin

By Edoardo Pelligra, 09 December 2014

Valery Gergiev doesn’t aim for technical perfection or for unimpeachable execution: he conducts with almost mystical enthusiasm, drawing all the orchestra with uncontrollable ardour in this magnificent music, so deeply Russian.

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Impassioned Russian repertoire in Turin

By Edoardo Pelligra

De Marchi magnificently conducts Giulio Cesare with an ace cast in Turin

By Edoardo Pelligra, 20 November 2014

Laurent Pelly's production of Giulio Cesare is a play of references to antiquity, heroism and myth. However, it does not thrill.

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Magnificently conducted Giulio Cesare in Turin

By Edoardo Pelligra

Otello in Turin: the weakness of a Moorish general

By Edoardo Pelligra, 14 October 2014

in Turin, British director Walter Sutcliffe sets Otello right in the middle of a never-ending battle and Gianandrea Noseda leads a passionate, rigorous account of the score.

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Otello in Turin: the weakness of a Moorish general

By Edoardo Pelligra

Sacred Verdi ushers in Teatro Regio's new season

By Edoardo Pelligra, 04 October 2014

Teatro Regio in Turin paid its first seasonal tribute to Giuseppe Verdi with an engaging execution of the Messa da Reqiuem.

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Sacred Verdi ushers in Teatro Regio's new season

By Edoardo Pelligra

The music of Louis XV’s court: Jordi Savall and ‘Le Concert des Nations’ play Jean-Philippe Rameau.

By Edoardo Pelligra, 16 September 2014

Jordi Savall conducts ‘Le Concert des Nations’ playing suites from Baroque’s controversial Jean-Philippe Rameau. The varied programme of the Italian music festival, Mito, is enriched with this historical hint of Baroque music.

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Rameau: the music of Louis XV’s court

By Edoardo Pelligra

Proms matinée celebrates Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies

By Edoardo Pelligra, 09 August 2014

Lapland Chamber Orchestra debuts at the Proms with a brilliant performance ranging from unusual classical pieces such as Sibelius’s intimate and tender Rakastava to disturbing contemporary pieces by Birtwistle and Davies.

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Proms matinée celebrates Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies

By Edoardo Pelligra