The first modern staged performance of Paër’s Agnese in Turin

Von Laura Servidei, 19 März 2019

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“The orchestra was the best player on the field, every solo perfectly on point”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatro Regio di Torino, Turin, am 17 März 2019

Paer, Agnese

Teatro Regio di Torino

Diego Fasolis, Musikalische Leitung

Leo Muscato, Regie

Federica Parolini, Bühnenbild

Silvia Aymonino, Kostüme

María Rey-Joly, Agnese

Lucia Cirillo, Carlotta

Giulia Della Peruta, Vespina

Andrea Giovannini, Don Girolamo

Edgardo Rocha, Ernesto

Filippo Morace, Don Pasquale

Federico Benetti, Il custode dei pazzi

Markus Werba, Uberto

Alessandro Verazzi, Licht

Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino

Nicht perfekt, aber unterhaltsam: L'elisir d’amore in Turin

Isabella Steppan, 22nd April

Die gestreamte Vorstellung von Donizettis Oper aus dem Teatro Regio hätte noch deutlich Luft nach oben gehabt, war aber dennoch charmant.

**111

Riccardo Muti triumphs with Un ballo in maschera in Turin

Laura Servidei, 23rd February

The Teatro Regio di Torino presents Andrea de Rosa's new production of Verdi’s operal, with a solid cast under the baton of Riccardo Muti.

***11

The Pearl Fishers: Turin opens its operatic season

Renato Verga, 3rd October

The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.

**111

In Turin's Trovatore, the women carry the day

Renato Verga, 10th October

Female voices dominate in the vocal cast: Rachel Willis-Sørensen debuts as Leonora and charms the audience; Anna Maria Chiuri has the temperament and rich vocality requested by the role of the gypsy.

***11

A strong Italian cast for Così fan tutte in Turin

Laura Servidei, 1st July

Diego Fasolis gives an enlightened, 18th-century account of the Mozart/da Ponte masterpiece, with great precision and elegance.

****1

On the female condition: two 20th-century operas in Turin

Renato Verga, 16th May

Two different variations of the female conditions: one of 1909 and now utterly out-of-date, the second of 1959 much more ut-to-date.

****1

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Laura Servidei

Mathematician, science nerd, translator of popular science books, obsessed opera fan since the teen years. Day job: business analyst in a software house developing systems for the financial industry. Amateur choral singer. Main musical interests: baroque music and Italian opera. Originally from Italy, currently based in Sweden. I make a mean eggplant parmesan.