Enlèvement royal au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

By Clémence Faber, 23 September 2015

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“Norman Reinhardt est un merveilleux ténor mozartien, au timbre solaire.”

Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 21 September 2015

Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem)

Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor

Rachele Gilmore, Blonde

Jane Archibald, Konstanze

Norman Reinhardt, Belmonte

David Portillo, Pedrillo

Albert Pesendorfer, Osmin

Tobias Moretti, Bassa Selim

Le Cercle de l'Harmonie

Ensemble Aedes

A shark with shiny teeth

Chanda VanderHart, 18th January

Requiring trained opera singers to focus primarily on acting and asking actors to sing in a renowned opera house puts everyone out of their comfort zone, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

***11

Kušej's new Entführung disappointingly toothless

Mark Valencia, 3rd July

An updating of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail to the post-World War One era in a desert fails to inspire in Aix.

**111

A noble Norma trapped in a hollow dystopia

Andrew Larkin, 24th May

Salome Jicia delivers a vocally impressive and emotionally committed Norma, but Orpha Phelan’s post-apocalyptic staging fatally weakens Bellini’s sacred tragedy.

***11

A deli-cious revival of Rossini’s Il turco in Italia at Glyndebourne

Dominic Lowe, 23rd May

Mariame Clément’s production of Rossini's meta comedy is tightly revived with some excellent singing. Come for the writing tips, stay for the cured meats.

****1

Superb musical performances in Pinchgut's Scarlatti rarity in Sydney

Sandra Bowdler, 23rd May

As usual, Pinchgut lavishes musical excellence on an obscure Baroque work... but why stage an oratorio?

****1

The Met’s Frida y Diego proves visually stunning, musically thrilling

David Wolfson, 22nd May

Deborah Colker and her design team create visually vibrant worlds for the Met’s new production of El último sueño de Frida y Diego, by Pulitzer Prize winner Gabriela Lena Frank.

*****

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Clémence Faber

Clémence Faber, mezzo-soprano, est née à Paris en 1991. Elle se forme à la Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Chœur d’enfants de l’Opéra de Paris, entre 2003 et 2010, et poursuit le chant au conservatoire Gabriel Fauré (Paris) dans la classe de Yann Toussaint, en parallèle de ses études à Sciences Po Paris. Elle se perfectionne actuellement au Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (UK), dans la classe de Wilma MacDougall.