Entre duelos y dúos: notable Romeo et Juliette en La Coruña

By Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 01 October 2023

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Reviewed at Teatro Colon, La Coruña on 29 September 2023

Gounod, Roméo et Juliette

Alain Guingal, Conductor

Daniele Piscopo, Director, Lighting Designer

Riccardo Roggiani, Set Designer

Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia

Coro Gaos

Sofía Esparza, Juliette

Mario Bahg, Roméo

Patricia Illera, Stéphano

Luis López, Frère Laurent

Fernando Latorre, Count Capulet

Francisco Corujo, Tybalt

Irene Zas, Gertrude, Juliette's nurse

Christopher Robertson, Duke of Verona

Gabriel Alonso, Pâris

Borja Quiza, Mercutio

Enrique Alberto Martínez Rivero, Benvolio, nephew of Montaigu

Jacobo Rubianes, Grégorio

Fernando Briones, Choirmaster / chorus director

From Russia with love, recrimination and death

Lorenzo Fiorito, 8th May

A revival of a traditional staging, with great singers and full of dramatic energy

****1

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

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Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro es un apasionado de toda la música clásica, pero muy especialmente de la obra y de la personalidad de Gustav Mahler. Su estudio y su disfrute han llenado y llenan su vida, hasta el punto de que una autoridad como José Luis Pérez de Arteaga lo ha calificado como "fabuloso estudioso mahleriano". Actualmente es coeditor de la principal web en castellano dedicada a dicho compositor (gustav-mahler.es). Profesionalmente, enseña e investiga neuroanatomía animal en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.

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