A busted straight: La Scala's La fanciulla del West

Von Kevin Wells, 06 Mai 2016

Laden, bitte warten...

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“Claudio Sgura's Rance was no one-dimensional Scarpia clone”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatro alla Scala, Mailand, am 3 Mai 2016

Puccini, La fanciulla del West

Teatro alla Scala

Riccardo Chailly, Musikalische Leitung

Robert Carsen, Regie

Luis F Carvalho, Bühnenbild

Petra Reinhardt, Kostüme

Barbara Haveman, Minnie

Claudio Sgura, Jack Rance

Roberto Aronica, Dick Johnson

Carlo Bosi, Nick

Gabriele Sagona, Ashby

Alessandra Visentin, Wowkle

Emanuele Giannino, Harry

Krystian Adam, Joe

Francesco Castoro, The Pony Express Rider

Marco Ciaponi, Trin

Costantino Finucci, Bello

Francesco Verna, Happy

Gianluca Breda, Sid

Alessandro Luongo, Sonora

Alessandro Spina, Billy Jackrabbit

Davide Fersini, Jake Wallace

Romano Dal Zovo, Jim Larkens

Leonardo Galeazzi, José Castro

Coro del Teatro alla Scala

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Kevin Wells

Kevin Wells was bitten by the opera bug at 10, having heard a 1936 recording of Jussi Björling singing “Che gelida manina”. He has never been the same since. A student of voice, performance practice, the history of singing and opera, he holds advanced degrees in Italian and has lived and worked in Italy off and on since the 70s. La Scala became a second home as the Met had been during college daze. Now in his native Boston, he works as translator, tutor, and language coach, haunts Symphony Hall, and would haunt the Opera House had it not been demolished in 1958!