Sondra Radvanovsky: un huracán lírico en el corazón de El Escorial

By Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 21 August 2023

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Reviewed at Teatro Auditorio Escorial, El Escorial on 18 August 2023

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Z 626: Dido's Lament "When I am laid in earth"

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Piangerò la sorte mia

Rachmaninov, Do not sing, my beauty (Ne poy krasavitsa pri mne), Op.4 no.4

Rachmaninov, How fair this spot (Zdes' khorosho), Op.21 no.7

Rachmaninov, I await you, (Ja zhdu tebja) Op.14 no.1

Strauss R., Allerseelen (All Souls' Day), Op.10 no.8

Strauss R., Befreit (To set free), Op.39 no.4

Strauss R., Morgen! Op.27 no.4

Strauss R., Heimliche Aufforderung, Op.27 no.3

Liszt, Tre sonetti di Petrarca, S 270

Heggie, If I Had Known

Giordano, Andrea Chenier: La mamma morta

Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano

Anthony Manoli, Piano

Star quality: Sondra Radvanovsky's Rosenblatt debut

Dominic Lowe, 16th March

For her London recital debut, Sondra Radvanovsky offered a varied programme of ranging from Bellini to Barber, showing off the technique with which she has dazzled American audiences.

****1

San Carlo’s Medea a clash of worlds in a neoclassical framework

Lorenzo Fiorito, 10th December

A new Medea at the Teatro di San Carlo presents three distinct visions – neoclassical in the pit, expressionistic on stage and conceptual in the direction – that never fully merge.

***11

Dodging the executioner’s axe: Șerban’s Turandot returns

Mark Pullinger, 19th March

Andrei Șerban’s 1984 staging of Turandot may the oldest production left in The Royal Opera’s stable, but there's life in the old horse yet.

****1

Costume drama at its finest: Andrea Chénier at The Royal Opera

David Karlin, 30th May

The Royal Opera orchestra, chorus and a large cast bring their A game to Sir Antonio Pappano's last run as music director.

*****

Sondra Radvanovsky triumphs in COC's darkly grand Medea

Gianmarco Segato, 3rd May

In the title role of Canadian Opera Company's Medea, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky offers the vocal and dramatic goods required by this flawed masterpiece.

****1

Vasily Barkhatov's car crash Turandot opens the season in Naples

Lorenzo Fiorito, 12th December

The Teatro di San Carlo opens its season with Vasily Barkhatov directing a Gen X mish-mash take on Puccini's final opera.

***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.