Livermore’s new Aida: an incredible cinematic experience in Rome

Aida, Act 2 finale

Riccardo Zanellato (Ramfis), Gregory Kunde (Radamès) and Ekaterina Semenchuk (Amneris)

Ekaterina Semenchuk (Amneris)

Gregory Kunde (Radamès)

Krassimira Stoyanova (Aida)

Von Alissa Balocco, 02 Februar 2023

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“Aida is thus transformed into a black-and-white film, a ghostly tale”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatro Costanzi, Teatro dell'Opera, Rome, am 31 Januar 2023

Verdi, Aida

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Michele Mariotti, Musikalische Leitung

Davide Livermore, Regie

Giò Forma, Bühnenbild

Gianluca Falaschi, Kostüme

Antonio Castro, Licht

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

D-Wok, Bühnenbild

Krassimira Stoyanova, Aida

Gregory Kunde, Radamès

Ekaterina Semenchuk, Amneris

Vladimir Stoyanov, Amonasro

Riccardo Zanellato, Ramphis

Giorgi Manoshvili, König von Ägypten

Veronica Marini, Priesterin

Carlo Bosi, ein Bote

Grigolo shines in a mixed new Roméo et Juliette at the Opera di Roma

Pia Maltri, 28th April

With its 1940s setting, Luca Del Fusco’s direction alienates in a new production of Gounod's Shakespeare-inspired opera.

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Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Pia Maltri, 7th April

Robert Carsen’s staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707.

****1

Ariadne in Rome: David Hermann’s Strauss staging highlights contrasts

Pia Maltri, 1st March

In an opera rarely staged in Italy, David Hermann skilfully masters the metatheatrical challenges posed by the libretto to Ariadne auf Naxos.

****1

Abandon all hope: Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno receives Italian premiere

Pia Maltri, 19th February

The Italian premiere of Lucia Ronchetti’s Inferno at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma uses Dante’s original verses, but her score fails to match their beauty.

***11

Livermore’s successful Bohème opens at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Pia Maltri, 14th January

Originally staged at the Caracalla Baths in 2014, Davide Livermore’s production comes in from the cold.

****1

Wagner’s Lohengrin finally returns – swanless – to Rome

Pia Maltri, 27th November

Damiano Michieletto is entrusted with the first staging of Lohengrin in Rome for 50 years, but his distracting staging is redeemed by the musical side of things.

***11

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Alissa Balocco

Born and raised in Rome, Alissa is an Italian pianist, musicologist and journalist. She graduated at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory and studied Musicology at University La Sapienza. She is now taking a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Communication at Luiss University and her articles have been published on Music.it, ZetaLuiss and HuffingtonPost. Alissa loves Debussy but, if she could, she would like to be reborn as a Mahler symphony. She can’t live without theatre although her friends would say she obsesses even more about her unconditional love for Amy Winehouse and Soul music.

Davide Livermore’s new Aida proves an incredible cinematic experience in Rome