Au Gray du public : Les Noces de Figaro au TCE

By Stéphane Lelièvre, 02 December 2019

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“le spectacle est constamment séduisant pour l’œil, vif, agréable”

Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 29 November 2019

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor

James Gray, Director

Santo Loquasto, Set Designer

Christian Lacroix, Costume Designer

Stéphane Degout, Count Almaviva

Vannina Santoni, Countess Almaviva

Robert Gleadow, Figaro

Anna Aglatova, Susanna

Éléonore Pancrazi, Cherubino

Carlo Lepore, Doctor Bartolo

Jennifer Larmore, Marcellina

Rodolphe Briand, Don Curzio

Mathias Vidal, Don Basilio

Matthieu Lécroart, Antonio

Florie Valiquette, Barbarina

Le Cercle de l'Harmonie

Chœur Unikanti

Gaël Darchen, Choirmaster / chorus director

Jetske Mijnssen's Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

Eleanor Knight, 4th June

Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.

*****

Tavener's Krishna fails to convince in world premiere

Nick Boston, 4th June

John Tavener's “mystical pantomime” proves a disappointment, despite strong performances from singers and orchestra in David Pountney's production.

***11

Antonia Bembo’s Ercole amante wins hearts at the Opéra de Paris

David Karlin, 2nd June

Leonardo García-Alarcón's exhumation of Bembo's work proves a winner, in a hyper-quirky staging by Netia Jones with Julie Fuchs as the pick of the fine singers.

****1

Chasing the American Dream: UK premiere for Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up

Mark Pullinger, 1st June

Amy Lane directs an intimate staging of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s 2018 chamber opera in the compact Milton Court Theatre.

****1

Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando

Eleanor Knight, 30th May

Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of Handel's Orlando.

***11

Bang! Mozart’s volcano erupts in Opera Holland Park’s Così fan tutte

Peter Quantrill, 28th May

Mount Vesuvius looms over Cecilia Stinton’s compelling new production of Così fan tutte.

****1

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Stéphane Lelièvre

Stéphane Lelièvre est maître de conférences en littérature comparée. Il est responsable de l’équipe « Littérature et musique » du Centre de Recherche en Littérature Comparée à la Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Universités. Spécialiste des romantismes allemand et français, il s’intéresse d’une manière générale aux liens entre les lettres et la musique, et donc particulièrement à l’opéra.

Au Gray du public : Les Noces de Figaro au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées