La metamorfosis de Madama Butterfly en la voz de Voulgaridou

By Irene Littfack, 17 March 2019

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“la protagonista se consagró como una Butterfly sobrecogedoramente expresiva”

Reviewed at Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Bogotá on 15 March 2019

Puccini, Madama Butterfly

Rodolfo Fischer, Conductor

Alejandro Chacón, Director

Liliana Duque, Set Designer

Adán Martínez, Costume Designer

Alexia Voulgaridou, Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)

César Augusto Gutiérrez, Pinkerton

Marcelo Guzzo, Sharpless

Asude Karayavuz, Suzuki

Fusión Filarmónica Juvenil

Coro de la Ópera de Colombia

Jetske Mijnssen's Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

Eleanor Knight, 4th June

Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.

*****

Tavener's Krishna fails to convince in world premiere

Nick Boston, 4th June

John Tavener's “mystical pantomime” proves a disappointment, despite strong performances from singers and orchestra in David Pountney's production.

***11

Antonia Bembo’s Ercole amante wins hearts at the Opéra de Paris

David Karlin, 2nd June

Leonardo García-Alarcón's exhumation of Bembo's work proves a winner, in a hyper-quirky staging by Netia Jones with Julie Fuchs as the pick of the fine singers.

****1

Chasing the American Dream: UK premiere for Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up

Mark Pullinger, 1st June

Amy Lane directs an intimate staging of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s 2018 chamber opera in the compact Milton Court Theatre.

****1

Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando

Eleanor Knight, 30th May

Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of Handel's Orlando.

***11

Bang! Mozart’s volcano erupts in Opera Holland Park’s Così fan tutte

Peter Quantrill, 28th May

Mount Vesuvius looms over Cecilia Stinton’s compelling new production of Così fan tutte.

****1

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Irene Littfack

Músico y periodista cultural colombiana formada en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y magíster en Diseño de espacios y experiencias culturales de la Escuela Superior de Diseño de Barcelona. Es cofundadora y periodista de la plataforma de periodismo musical Concertante, colabora frecuentemente con distintos medios especializados de Colombia y España y dedica su tiempo a la escritura y los podcasts en torno a la música.