L'Orfeo de Rossi à Versailles : une magnifique redécouverte

By Julie Jozwiak, 23 February 2016

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“Judith van Wanroij brille notamment par ses implorations aux accents déchirants.”

Reviewed at Château de Versailles: Royal Opera House, Versailles on 19 February 2016

Rossi, Orfeo

Raphaël Pichon, Conductor

Jetske Mijnssen, Director

Ben Baur, Set Designer

Gideon Davey, Costume Designer

Judith van Wanroij, Orfeo/La Vittoria

Francesca Aspromonte, Euridice

Giuseppina Bridelli, Aristeo

Giulia Semenzato, Giunone

Luigi De Donato, Pluto

Victor Torres, Endimione, Caronte

Marc Mauillon, Momo

Dominique Visse, Una vecchia

Ray Chenez, Nutrice

Renato Dolcini, Baritone

David Tricou

Alicia Amo, Soprano

Violaine Le Chenadec, Soprano

Lucile Richardot, Mezzo-soprano

Guillaume Guttierez, Tenor

Olivier Coiffet, Tenor

Virgile Ancely, Bass

Chœur de Pygmalion

Ensemble Pygmalion

Claudia Isabel Martin, Director

Julia Katharina Berndt, Set Designer

Bernd Purkrabek, Lighting Designer

Handel’s Ariodante returns home to Covent Garden

Roy Westbrook, 9th December

Jetske Mijnssen’s house debut sees Handel’s opera transposed to a modern-day palace, with Emily D'Angelo angelic in the title role.

****1

Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal

Peter Quantrill, 17th May

Compelling singers carry the day in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's first staging of Wagner’s swansong.

****1

Second episode in Jetske Mijnssen's Tudor trilogy opens in Naples

Lorenzo Fiorito, 20th June

This production focuses on the psychological and human aspects of the central characters, rather than on their political conflict, with Elizabeth playing a pivotal role.

***11

Crowning glory: DNO's Donizetti Tudor trilogy concludes

Eleanor Knight, 21st April

Angela Brower steals the crown in the final instalment of Jetske Mijnssen’s Donizetti trilogy with a voice of apparently limitless emotional range.

****1

Annalisa Stroppa's Giovanna triumphs in San Carlo's Anna Bolena

Lorenzo Fiorito, 8th June

The Italian mezzo-soprano makes her mark as Anne Boleyn's rival in Jetske Mijnssen's production in Naples.

****1

Outstanding voices, compelling drama: Maria Stuarda at DNO

David Karlin, 6th May

Extraordinary performances from Kristina Mkhitaryan and Aigul Akhmetshina turn Donizetti's take on Schiller into an intense psychological portrait of power struggle.

*****

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Julie Jozwiak

Après des études en lettres et musicologie ainsi qu’un master d’école de commerce, Julie Jozwiak s’est consacrée à la production de concerts classiques. Elle est harpiste, choriste et violoniste, mais se définit surtout comme mélomane passionnée, et affectionne aussi beaucoup la danse classique qu’elle a longtemps pratiquée. Son amour inconditionnel du spectacle vivant l’incite à se rendre quasi quotidiennement au concert, à l’opéra, au ballet, au théâtre… ou à tout autre type de performance scénique.