Prime cuts: Fabio Luisi conducts Wagner in Aix

Gun-Brit Barkmin, Fabio Luisi and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

Fabio Luisi conducts the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

Von Mark Pullinger, 09 April 2023

Laden, bitte warten...

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“the heart of this particular bleeding chunk was red, raw and clearly still beating”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, am 8 April 2023

Wagner, Lohengrin: prelude to Act 1

Wagner, Tannhäuser: Ouvertüre

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel und Liebestod

Wagner, Parsifal: Karfreitagszauber

Wagner, Götterdaämmerung: Opferszene

Gun-Brit Barkmin, Sopran

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

Fabio Luisi, Musikalische Leitung

Erstklassige Solisten: Hilary Hahn und das Orchestra RAI in Köln

Cristina Burack, 27th October

Mit Spaß und Raffinesse spielte Italiens Funkorchester unter Robert Trevino. Es zeigte sein Talent in Mussorgskys Bilder einer Ausstellung und begleitete Hilary Hahn in einer unvergesslichen Interpretation von Sibelius' Violinkonzert.

*****

Anastasia Bartoli a regal Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival

Laura Servidei, 9th August

The ROF presents a new production of Ermione, a title not often performed, with a star-studded cast including divo Juan Diego Flórez.

****1

The Rossini Opera Festival comes home! Bianca e Falliero in Pesaro

Laura Servidei, 7th August

Jessica Pratt leads a strong cast in a beautiful performance of one of Rossini’s unjustly forgotten masterpieces, under the spectacular baton of Roberto Abbado, despite an unremarkable new production by Jean-Louis Grinda.

***11

Adelaide di Borgogna returns to the Rossini Opera Festival

Laura Servidei, 13th August

The ROF presents a new, cheeky production of Adelaide, by Arnaud Bernard, based on a unoriginal but very well executed “meta-theatrical” take, with an exemplary cast.

****1

Eduardo e Cristina: a rarity opens the Rossini Festival

Laura Servidei, 11th August

A strong cast and an inspiring production deliver the latest opera staged at the Rossini Opera Festival.

****1

Reverence and beauty in Mariotti’s Verdi Requiem in Parma

Mark Pullinger, 23rd September

A Verdi Festival account where the orchestral detail registers with true distinction and the singing impresses.

****1

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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.