Formidable e iconoclasta: nuevo Rigoletto en el Teatro Real

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 09 December 2023

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Reviewed at Teatro Real: Sala Principal, Madrid on 8 December 2023

Verdi, Rigoletto

Teatro Real

Nicola Luisotti, Conductor

Miguel del Arco, Director

Sven Jonke, Set Designer

Ana Garay, Costume Designer

Juan Gómez-Cornejo, Lighting Designer

Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

Coro Titular del Teatro Real

Ludovic Tézier, Rigoletto

Adela Zaharia, Gilda

Javier Camarena, The Duke of Mantua

Simon Lim, Sparafucile

Marina Viotti, Maddalena

Cassandre Berthon, Giovanna

Tomeu Bibiloni, Count Ceprano

Sandra Pastrana, Countess Ceprano

Fabián Lara, Borsa

Jordan Shanahan, Monterone

César San Martín, Marullo

Inés Ballesteros Bejarano, Page

Luz Arcas, Choreography

Jose Luis Basso, Choirmaster / chorus director

Deborah Warner attains her theatrical dream at the Teatro Real

Juan José Freijo, 12th March

Warner once again displays her unquestionable talent onstage and her affinity with Benjamin Britten, although, on this occasion, the musical aspect are not equally satisfactory.

***11

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David Karlin, 17th April

John Adams’ opera about Richard Nixon’s historic meeting with Mao Tse-Tung is performed with all round excellence, with a real find on the podium in the shape of Olivia Lee-Gunderman.

****1

The martyrs and the oppressed: Peter Grimes at Teatro Real Madrid

Juan José Freijo, 19th April

The new production of Peter Grimes stands out as the strongest item in Teatro Real's season, with magnificent staging by Deborah Warner and superb musical direction by Ivor Bolton, with outstanding vocal and dramatic performances.

*****

Reality as a staging concept: La traviata at Teatro Real, Madrid

Juan José Freijo, 22nd July

In this historic reopening, Lisette Oropesa offers a magnificent performance, dramatically overwhelming and vocally very unique.

****1

La Veronal heads Into the Little Hill in Madrid

John Marten Barnard, 15th February

The Teatros del Canal host the Benjamin–Crimp partnership’s thrillingly dark, lyric retelling of Robert Browning’s famous 1842 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin by La Veronal dance company.

*****

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Comedy fails to spark in Laurent Pelly's new production of Falstaff at the Teatro Real.

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Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Leonardo Mattana (1988) es Doctor en filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. También ha cursado estudios de piano, composición, teoría musical e historia de la música en el conservatorio de Sassari (Italia). Sus pasiones musicales son trasversales, privilegiando la música sinfónica y de cámara, pero sobre todo, buscando siempre en la experiencia estética de la música elementos de reflexión.

Formidable e iconoclasta: un Rigoletto de ruptura y fondo en el Teatro Real