Shakespeare en el Real: entre la tormenta y la calma chicha

By Mario Muñoz, 03 March 2016

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“se reivindicó ese maravilloso color de la orquesta handeliana que tan pocas veces se consigue bien”

Reviewed at Teatro Real: Sala Principal, Madrid on 26 February 2016

Purcell, The Fairy Queen Z 629: First and Second Music

Purcell, The Fairy Queen, Z 629: See, even night

Purcell, The Fairy Queen, Z 629: Dance for Chinese man and woman

Purcell, The Fairy Queen, Z 629: Your awful voice – Come down my blusterers

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Overture

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Se pietà di me non senti

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Da tempeste

Veracini, Rosalinda: Allevar la serpe in seno

Graun, Coriolano: Overture

Graun, Coriolano: Ah! no mio Coriolano – Senza di te mio bene

Graun, Coriolano: Mio dolce sposo

Benda, Romeo und Julie: Auch sie verstummt – Du, die vom grauen Wagen

Maria Grazia Schiavo, Soprano

Christophe Rousset, Conductor

Les Talens Lyriques

Teenage Mozart’s Mitridate a great success at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 18th May

Christophe Rousset leads Les Talens Lyriques and a stellar cast in a superb rendition of Mozart’s first opera seria.

*****

A forgotten meta-opera at La Scala: Gassmann’s L’opera seria

Laura Servidei, 29th March

Christophe Rousset leads a great cast and an even greater orchestra in Gassmann’s 1769 rarity in Laurent Pelly’s visually striking, but oddly subdued, take on a comedy that thrives on chaos.

***11

Fine Bach cantatas from Paul Figuier at the Festival d’Ambronay

David Karlin, 4th October

Young countertenor Figuier gives an accomplished vocal performance, sometimes overpowered by the energy of Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques. Oboist Gilles Vanssons steals the show.

***11

Jephtha: Handel's last English oratorio at the Halle Handel Festival

Sandra Bowdler, 30th May

Handel's last English oratorio Jephtha is beautifully performed by Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques in Halle, although the drama is a bit slow off the mark.

***11

Not quite a premiere, not quite a success: Salieri’s Kublai Khan

Chanda VanderHart, 7th April

Martin G Berger exhaustively reworks the story and the libretto of Salieri's Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari and throws the kitchen sink at this new production, but not everything lands well.

***11

Unhappy ever after: Gluck's Armide returns to Paris

David Karlin, 11th November

Excellent performances and stage direction make a good case for an opera that's on the slow side dramatically.

****1

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Mario Muñoz

Mario Muñoz Carrasco (Madrid, 1976) es compositor y crítico musical. Cursa estudios de Guitarra Clásica en la Escuela de Música Creativa para especializarse más adelante en Composición e Improvisación Jazz en la Escuela de Nuevas Músicas. Desde el 2007 ejerce como crítico musical en distintos medios, tanto en radio como en prensa escrita, a la par que participa en actividades musicales de diversa índole (ponencias, congresos, confección de temarios, notas a programas, cursos de apreciación musical, etcétera). Desde su creación en 2011 cursa el Grado en Musicología de la UCM, formando parte de su primera promoción.