Patriotic fervour in Florence's La battaglia di Legnano

Von Mark Pullinger, 23 Mai 2018

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“Renato Palumbo drove Verdi's score with real energy”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence, am 22 Mai 2018

Verdi, La battaglia di Legnano

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Renato Palumbo, Musikalische Leitung

Marco Tullio Giordana, Regie

Boris Stetka, Bühnenbild

Francesca Livia Sartori, Kostüme

Giuseppe Gipali, Arrigo

Giuseppe Altomare, Rolando

Vittoria Yeo, Lida

Marco Spotti, Fredrico Barbarosa

Giada Frasconi, Imelda

Min Kim, Marcovaldo

Elisabetta Antico, Kostüme

Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Jessica Pratt triumphs in a new Lucrezia Borgia in Florence

Laura Servidei, 9th November

Despite the Maggio Musicale stage being dominated by clerical garb and daring papal parallels, the true revelation is Jessica Pratt's breathtaking role debut as Lucrezia.

****1

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino's Don Giovanni falls at the final hurdle

Laura Servidei, 6th May

The Maggio postpones Pountney’s expected new production of Don Giovanni, presenting Ferrara’s production from Spoleto instead, with a good cast in the hands of Zubin Mehta.

**111

Florence's finest: Teatro del Maggio's compelling new Don Carlo

Roy Westbrook, 27th December

Five highly dissatisfied lead characters find only disastrous or ambiguous outcomes. Yet there are few greater operas than this.

*****

A Florentine Comedy: a lively Barbiere di Siviglia in Tuscany

David Larkin, 14th September

A lively and amusing Barbiere at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, with Daniele Gatti expertly marshalling the talents of Ruzil Gatin, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Nicola Alaimo and Fabio Capitanucci in Damiano Michieletto's colourfully minimalist staging.

****1

Juan Diego Flórez charms as Roméo in Florence

Elena Luporini, 3rd May

For the 84th edition of its summer festival, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents its first ever production of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.

***11

Linda di Chamounix a bittersweet tale at the Maggio Musicale

Laura Servidei, 3rd October

Jessica Pratt shines in this Donizetti coloratura role, with the support of Teresa Iervolino as a luxury Pierotto, and a solid cast of Italian singers.

***11

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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.

Viva Verdi! Patriotic fervour in Florence's new La battaglia di Legnano