A compelling Luisa Miller from Christof Loy at Glyndebourne

Von Mark Pullinger, 02 August 2021

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“Mané Galoyan, whose light lyric timbre and fragility of tone remind me very much of Ileana Cotrubaș”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne, am 1 August 2021

Verdi, Luisa Miller

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Enrique Mazzola, Musikalische Leitung

Christof Loy, Regie

Johannes Leiacker, Bühnenbild

Ursula Renzenbrink, Kostüme

Olaf Winter, Licht

Georg Zlabinger, Associate director

Vladislav Sulimsky, Miller

Mané Galoyan, Luisa

Charles Castronovo, Rodolfo

Evgeny Stavinsky, Graf Walter

Nadezhda Karyazina, Federica di Ostheim

Krzysztof Bączyk, Wurm

Carrie-Ann Williams, Laura

Paul Curievici, A peasant, Tenor

The Glyndebourne Chorus

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

A compelling, pared back Luisa Miller from Christof Loy at Glyndebourne