Bologna's Teatro Comunale scores a slam dunk

Von James Imam, 22 Mai 2017

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“Mark S. Doss was a robust Balstrode armed with a strapping voice and sparkling diction”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Bologna, am 18 Mai 2017

Britten, Peter Grimes

Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Juraj Valčuha, Musikalische Leitung

Cesare Lievi, Regie

Csaba Antal, Bühnenbild

Marina Luxardo, Kostüme

Ian Storey, Peter Grimes

Charlotte-Anne Shipley, Ellen Orford

Kamelia Kader, Mrs. Sedley

Gabriella Sborgi, Auntie

Paolo Antognetti, Bob Boles

Saverio Bambi, Reverend Horace Adams

Mark S Doss, Kapitän Balstrode

Luca Gallo, Hobson

Maurizio Leoni, Ned Keene

John Molloy, Swallow

Coro di Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna

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Vick enjoys working with young singers, and in with the young second cast he is spoiled.

*****

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James Imam, 9th April

One wonders why Emma Dante's concept, which explores the plight of women crushed by romantic catastrophes, is not done more often.

*****

Werther's middle-class dream in Bologna

Renato Verga, 15th December

Juan Diego Flórez plays the role for the first time on stage and it's a vocal triumph

****1

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Laura Servidei, 8th March

The Opernhaus Zürich presents yet another Cenerentola with Cecilia Bartoli in the title role, surrounded by a great cast, with the support of the period orchestra La Scintilla, under Gianluca Capuano's knowledgeable baton.

****1

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***11

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The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s proposal is fully commendable, as they restored an opera rarely performed

****1

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James Imam

James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.

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