“Gloria all’ Egitto”: Aida en el Municipal de Santiago

By Álvaro Gallegos, 09 November 2017

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Reviewed at Municipal de Santiago, Santiago on 8 November 2017

Verdi, Aida

Pedro-Pablo Prudencio, Conductor

Hugo de Ana, Director, Set Designer

Guadalupe Barrientos, Amneris

José Azócar, Radamès

Cristián Lorca, Amonasro

Mónica Ferracani, Aida

Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile

La fanciulla del West revival fails to reignite the spark in Naples

Lorenzo Fiorito, 19th April

Huge de Ana's staging is carefully crafted but feels dramaturgically outdated as the Teatro di San Carlo heads into the twilight of sovrintendente Stéphane Lissner’s final season.

**111

A gloomy, dark Vespri siciliani at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 1st February

A somewhat disappointing new production by Hugo de Ana brings I vespri siciliani back to La Scala, where Fabio Luisi leads a successful musical production with a great cast.

***11

Blue Nun Flórez prevails over de Ana’s garden of earthly delights

Mark Pullinger, 9th August

Opening the 2022 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Hugo de Ana's new production plunges Le Comte Ory into Hieronymus Bosch’s lusty triptych.

****1

A dusty Aida revived at the Teatro Real

Fernando Remiro, 10th March

In a disappointing revival of Hugo de Ana's clichéd and clumsy production, Liudmyla Monastyrska and Violeta Urmana confronted each other with their superb vocal techniques and diverging styles.

***11

La fanciulla walks wistfully into the Naples sunset

Lorenzo Fiorito, 9th December

A movie-like staging for Puccini's most original opera at the Teatro San Carlo.

****1

Cecil B DeMille in China for Samson et Dalila

Renato Verga, 15th November

Kitsch and grand-opera in Hugo de Ana's production of Samson et Dalila in Turin.

**111

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Álvaro Gallegos

Periodista, investigador, productor de discos y conferencista chileno. De formación musical autodidacta, ha ejercido la crítica en medios escritos y digitales, así como también en radio, con un especial énfasis en la nueva música y la difusión de los compositores de su país.