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Buscador de artículos | Renato Verga

Renato Verga
Renato Verga
Renato graduated from Turin University in Physics. He has always had a particular passion for music and the stage. A former member of a choir, he was raised in the musical milieu influenced by the eminent Italian musicologist Massimo Mila. In 2014, Renato started his own blog, which now has 1000 posts.
Autor:Renato Verga
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Milán

Cavalli's La Calisto arrives at La Scala for the first time and triumphs

Por Renato Verga, 30 de octubre de 2021
Cavalli's debut at La Scala is a triumph, earning applause that not even a Bohème or a Traviata can sometimes elicit. 
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Milán
30 oct 2021
La Calisto arrives at La Scala for the first time and triumphs
Por Renato Verga
Venice

La Fenice transformed into a cathedral for Joan Antón Rechi's vision of Gounod's Faust

Por Renato Verga, 3 de julio de 2021
The real sensation of the evening was Alex Esposito – this time, Gounod's Faust should have been titled Méphistophélès...
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Venice
3 jul 2021
La Fenice transformed into a cathedral for Gounod's Faust
Por Renato Verga
Venice

Vivaldi's Farnace returns to Venice at the Teatro Malibran

Por Renato Verga, 2 de julio de 2021
Christophe Gayral gives Vivaldi's Farnace a contemporary update at the Teatro Malibran, but there are musical compensations. 
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Venice
2 jul 2021
Vivaldi's Farnace returns to Venice at the Teatro Malibran
Por Renato Verga
Bérgamo

From Byron to Donizetti, the political drama of Marino Faliero in Bergamo

Por Renato Verga, 20 de noviembre de 2020
14th-century Venice, a city of intrigue, criminal activity and mysterious masks, is the setting for Donizetti's opera about the Doge Marino Faliero, whose life is torn between public and private issues.
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Bérgamo
20 nov 2020
The political drama of Marino Faliero in Bergamo
Por Renato Verga
Florence

Damiano Michieletto's youthful Barbiere returns to Florence

Por Renato Verga, 23 de octubre de 2020
Three Russian singers star in a revival of the Italian director's academy production from 2003. 
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Florence
23 oct 2020
Damiano Michieletto's youthful Barbiere returns to Florence
Por Renato Verga
Macerata

Il trovatore proves a masterpiece even without staging

Por Renato Verga, 1 de agosto de 2020
In a reduced concert performance of Il trovatore the drama unfolds with the force of music alone.
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Macerata
1 ago 2020
Il trovatore proves a masterpiece even without staging
Por Renato Verga
Macerata

Macerata's Don Giovanni: a yellow cab to hell

Por Renato Verga, 31 de julio de 2020
Livermore's staging implies two different storylines – do we only see the result of Don Giovanni's hallucinations?
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Macerata
31 jul 2020
Macerata's Don Giovanni: a yellow cab to hell
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Venice

La Fenice reopens its doors with Vivaldi's first opera

Por Renato Verga, 10 de julio de 2020
The lack of a curtain has forced the director to employ a new inventiveness, if only with partially success.
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Venice
10 jul 2020
La Fenice reopens its doors with Vivaldi's first opera
Por Renato Verga
Florence

The resurrection of an opera: Alfano's Risurrezione in Florence

Por Renato Verga, 19 de enero de 2020
Risurrezione is a work whose value is to be found more in the orchestra than in the vocal lines, a peculiar thing for an Italian opera belonging to an epoch that gloried in enticing melodies.
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Florence
19 ene 2020
The resurrection of an opera: Alfano's Risurrezione in Florence
Por Renato Verga
Roberto Frontali (Montfort) and John Osborn (Henri) © Yasuko Kageyama | Opera di Roma
Roma

Verdi's Vêpres siciliennes opens the operatic season in Rome

Por Renato Verga, 10 de diciembre de 2019
Living in an environment influenced by French culture, Verdi saw the chance of breathing new life into the Italian opera through the grand-opéra. Les Vêpres siciliennes is his successful attempt.
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Roberto Frontali (Montfort) and John Osborn (Henri) © Yasuko Kageyama | Opera di Roma
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Roma
10 dic 2019
Verdi's Vêpres siciliennes opens the operatic season in Rome
Por Renato Verga
Bérgamo

Donizetti's L'ange de Nisida proves to be a masterpiece

Por Renato Verga, 16 de noviembre de 2019
The performance at Bergamo Opera Festival proved that L'ange de Nisida can contest the place of La favorite in Donizetti's catalog.
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Bérgamo
16 nov 2019
Donizetti's L'ange de Nisida proves to be a masterpiece
Por Renato Verga
Bérgamo

Pietro il Grande, Czar delle Russie: young Donizetti pays his debt to Rossini

Por Renato Verga, 15 de noviembre de 2019
Donizetti's music in this early opera has the freshness and liveliness of his most mature comic works, but l barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola were just a few years before, as one could easily perceive.
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Bérgamo
15 nov 2019
Young Donizetti pays his debt to Rossini in Bergamo
Por Renato Verga
Milán

The face that launched a thousand ships: Strauss’ Helena lands at La Scala

Por Renato Verga, 6 de noviembre de 2019
In the tiring role of Menelaus Andreas Schager was a mighty Heldentenor, combining impressive sound power with a dazzling colour and without ever showing a moment of fatigue.
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Milán
6 nov 2019
Strauss’ Helena lands at La Scala
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Handel at La Scala, and it's a sensation

Por Renato Verga, 18 de octubre de 2019
Carsen's modern mise en scène of Handel's opera did not stand out for originality, but for finesse and elegance and that was substantially appreciated by the audience.
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Milán
18 oct 2019
Handel at La Scala, and it's a sensation
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Libertine cynicism in music: Francesconi's Quartett at La Scala

Por Renato Verga, 5 de octubre de 2019
After 76 performances in 17 theatres and seven different productions, Quartett returns to La Scala in the original sgating by Àlex Ollé of La Fura dels Baus and the Milan audience is once more captivated.
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Milán
5 oct 2019
Libertine cynicism in music: Francesconi's Quartett at La Scala
Por Renato Verga
Turín

The Pearl Fishers: Turin opens its operatic season

Por Renato Verga, 3 de octubre de 2019
The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.
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Turín
3 oct 2019
The Pearl Fishers: Turin opens its operatic season
Por Renato Verga
Berlín

Korngold's Dead City is not so dead, but the dreams are glittering

Por Renato Verga, 28 de junio de 2019
In Robert Carsen's staging, the “dead city” is absent: the scenery showing a bourgeois room that one imagines overlooking a bright avenue in Vienna or Berlin rather than a dark alley in Bruges.
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Berlín
28 jun 2019
Korngold's Dead City is not so dead in Berlin
Por Renato Verga
Milán

I masnadieri: “Verdi's ugliest opera” returns to La Scala with mixed results

Por Renato Verga, 18 de junio de 2019
In the role created for Jenny Lind, Lisette Oropesa, in her debut in the theater, shows her magnificent silvery voice, beautiful vibrato and impeccable colorature.
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Milán
18 jun 2019
“Verdi's ugliest opera” returns to La Scala with mixed results
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Korngold's Die tote Stadt at La Scala for the first time: a triumph

Por Renato Verga, 28 de mayo de 2019
The wealth of visual images displayed by director Graham Vick goes with the extraordinary richness of Korngold's music.
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Milán
28 may 2019
Korngold's Die tote Stadt at La Scala for the first time: a triumph
Por Renato Verga
Roma

Emma Dante's demonic obsessions in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel in Rome

Por Renato Verga, 23 de mayo de 2019
In Emma Dante's staging we are viewing an allegory of death as painted in the medieval frescoes of Italian cemeteries.
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Roma
23 may 2019
Demonic obsessions in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel in Rome
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Ariadne in Milan: the director cannot find the thread

Por Renato Verga, 23 de abril de 2019
Frederic Wake-Walker sticks to a vapid pop-parody that demeans the intellectual message of Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos.
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Milán
23 abr 2019
Ariadne in Milan: the director cannot find the thread
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Valery Gergiev conducts a grandiose Khovanshchina at La Scala

Por Renato Verga, 27 de febrero de 2019
In Khovanshchina, even more so than in Boris Godunov, the chorus is the chief protagonist and the La Scala chorus was truly astonishing.
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Milán
27 feb 2019
Gergiev conducts a grandiose Khovanshchina at La Scala
Por Renato Verga
Venice

A second chance for a teenager Mozart in Venice

Por Renato Verga, 15 de febrero de 2019
Il re pastore seems to be a work that deserves to be included in the repertoire for its undoubted qualities and not only because it foreshadows the genius of the works that will follow.
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Venice
15 feb 2019
A second chance for a teenager Mozart in Venice
Por Renato Verga
Il sogno di Scipione © Michele Crosera
Venice

Young Mozart returns to Venice: Il sogno di Scipione

Por Renato Verga, 14 de febrero de 2019
Three sopranos and three tenors express a catalogue of "affections" in musical numbers full of coloratura and virtuosic effects that are already 100% Mozart despite the young age of the composer.
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Il sogno di Scipione © Michele Crosera
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Venice
14 feb 2019
Young Mozart returns to Venice: Il sogno di Scipione
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Elegance and finesse: Marianne Crebassa in recital at La Scala

Por Renato Verga, 27 de enero de 2019
The performance of the young French mezzo-soprano was admired more for its correctness than for its seductiveness.
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Milán
27 ene 2019
Elegance and finesse: Marianne Crebassa in recital at La Scala
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Beckett at La Scala: world première of Kurtág's Fin de partie

Por Renato Verga, 15 de noviembre de 2018
Never before has human impotence been so cruelly portrayed on stage.
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Milán
15 nov 2018
Beckett at La Scala: world première of Kurtág's Fin de partie
Por Renato Verga
Le nozze di Figaro © Yasuko Kageyama | Opera di Roma
Roma

An elephant in the room: Graham Vick's new Figaro opens in Rome

Por Renato Verga, 3 de noviembre de 2018
Graham Vick stages his Marriage of Figaro in todays vulgarity, but he is not fully convincing.
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Le nozze di Figaro © Yasuko Kageyama | Opera di Roma
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Roma
3 nov 2018
An elephant in the room: Graham Vick's new Figaro opens in Rome
Por Renato Verga
Turín

In Turin's Trovatore, the women carry the day

Por Renato Verga, 10 de octubre de 2018
Female voices dominate in the vocal cast: Rachel Willis-Sørensen debuts as Leonora and charms the audience; Anna Maria Chiuri has the temperament and rich vocality requested by the role of the gypsy.
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Turín
10 oct 2018
In Turin's Trovatore, the women carry the day
Por Renato Verga
Parma

Robert Wilson's lunar Trouvère in Parma is the antithesis of grand opéra

Por Renato Verga, 29 de septiembre de 2018
When they asked Wilson to stage an opera by Verdi, the Texan director replied "I'll never do it!". Now he is at his fourth Verdi's production.
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Parma
29 sept 2018
Wilson's lunar Trouvère the antithesis of grand opéra
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Cherubini's Ali Baba finally returns to La Scala in an Academy staging

Por Renato Verga, 1 de septiembre de 2018
A conventional plot retains few of the elements of its Arabian Nights original, but the Academy's young pupils display vocal mastery in Milan.
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Milán
1 sept 2018
Cherubini's Ali Baba finally returns to La Scala
Por Renato Verga
Florence

Dafne returns to Florence four centuries later

Por Renato Verga, 25 de junio de 2018
The imaginative baroque architecture of the Buontalenti Grotto in Palazzo Pitti Boboli Gardens is an inert background to the action in this reprise of one of the first operas.
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Florence
25 jun 2018
Dafne returns to Florence four centuries later
Por Renato Verga
Turín

On the female condition: two 20th-century operas in Turin

Por Renato Verga, 16 de mayo de 2018
Two different variations of the female conditions: one of 1909 and now utterly out-of-date, the second of 1959 much more ut-to-date.
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Turín
16 may 2018
On the female condition: two 20th-century operas in Turin
Por Renato Verga
Piacenza

A traditional Il corsaro revived in Piacenza

Por Renato Verga, 6 de mayo de 2018
In this Verdi's popular work we find a paroxysm of affections that is consonant with Matteo Beltrami's energetic conducting.
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Piacenza
6 may 2018
A traditional Il corsaro revived in Piacenza
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Breaking with Verismo: Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini returns to La Scala

Por Renato Verga, 15 de abril de 2018
The use in the score of ancient musical instruments is what differentiates this work: pifferi, a lute, a “viola pomposa” give this work a distinctive flavour.
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Milán
15 abr 2018
Francesca da Rimini returns to La Scala
Por Renato Verga
Ambrogio Maestri (Don Pasquale) © Brescia & Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Milán

Don Pasquale, or, The Revenge of the Dead Mother

Por Renato Verga, 3 de abril de 2018
Director Davide Livermore sets the story at the time of the Dolce Vita, including the motorbike from the film Roman Holiday and the roadster from The Easy Life.
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Ambrogio Maestri (Don Pasquale) © Brescia & Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
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Milán
3 abr 2018
Don Pasquale, or, The Revenge of the Dead Mother
Por Renato Verga
Modena

La Gioconda in Modena: a popularly acclaimed, small-town grand opera

Por Renato Verga, 25 de marzo de 2018
Every time Ponchielli’s La Gioconda is staged its popular fortune is renewed, but the diffidence of the musicography also remains unchanged.
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Modena
25 mar 2018
La Gioconda in Modena
Por Renato Verga
Turín

Turin's Orpheus does not ascend to Heaven

Por Renato Verga, 13 de marzo de 2018
In the Teatro Regio's production everything is according to the script, but the magic of the stage is absent. 
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Turín
13 mar 2018
Turin's Orpheus does not ascend to Heaven
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Mourning becomes Orpheus: Gluck at La Scala

Por Renato Verga, 24 de febrero de 2018
Juan Diego Flórez perhaps is the only one currently able to revive the virtuosity of the role created in 1762
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Milán
24 feb 2018
Mourning becomes Orpheus: Gluck at La Scala
Por Renato Verga
Venice

La Fenice's superb new Widow is always Merry, even without sequins and ostrich feathers

Por Renato Verga, 2 de febrero de 2018
Damiano Michieletto's new production in Venice sets the operetta in the 1950s. 
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Venice
2 feb 2018
La Fenice's superb new Widow is always Merry, even without sequins and ostrich feathers
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Fledermaus debuts at La Scala but misses some sparkle

Por Renato Verga, 21 de enero de 2018
The Temple of Opera has opened its doors to operetta. For the first time the Teatro alla Scala is staging Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus.
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Milán
21 ene 2018
Fledermaus debuts at La Scala but misses some sparkle
Por Renato Verga
Turín

An enigmatic Turandot in Stefano Poda's dream staging at the Teatro Regio in Turin

Por Renato Verga, 16 de enero de 2018
Stefano Poda's staging has its own coherence, but it is as cold as the Chinese princess. 
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Turín
16 ene 2018
An enigmatic Turandot in Turin
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Andrea Chénier in Milan: tradition triumphs at La Scala's season opener

Por Renato Verga, 7 de diciembre de 2017
The big season opener at La Scala offers few surprises in a traditional staging, although Yusif Eyvazov proved his worth in the title role. 
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Milán
7 dic 2017
Tradition triumphs at La Scala
Por Renato Verga
Bérgamo

Il borgomastro di Saardam: Donizetti's opera buffa revived in Bergamo

Por Renato Verga, 26 de noviembre de 2017
Absent from theatres for more than a century and a half, Donizetti's comedy about Tsar Peter the Great is revived in the composer's home town.
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Bérgamo
26 nov 2017
Rare Donizetti opera buffa revived in Bergamo
Por Renato Verga
Turín

Falstaff in Turin: elegant, but with little mass

Por Renato Verga, 15 de noviembre de 2017
Renzetti's traditional rendition does not reveal yet unprecedented details of a score that is the summation of Verdi's mastery and his last work – his third based on Shakespeare.
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Turín
15 nov 2017
Falstaff in Turin: elegant, but with little mass
Por Renato Verga
Milán

The memory of Baroque: Sciarrino's Ti vedo, ti sento, mi perdo at La Scala

Por Renato Verga, 14 de noviembre de 2017
The work takes its inspiration from the life of the little known Italian composer Alessandro Stradella who ended his life stabbed by killers sent by the husbands of his innumerable mistresses.
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Milán
14 nov 2017
Sciarrino's Ti vedo, ti sento, mi perdo at La Scala
Por Renato Verga
Ekaterina Bakanova (Magda) © Michele Borzoni | Terraproject
Florence

La rondine: a flimsy work in pastel colours in Florence

Por Renato Verga, 22 de octubre de 2017
Commissioned as an operetta, La rondine became a true opera instead, and was presented in 1917 in Montecarlo at the high point of WW1.
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Ekaterina Bakanova (Magda) © Michele Borzoni | Terraproject
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Florence
22 oct 2017
La rondine: a flimsy work in pastel colours in Florence
Por Renato Verga
Roma

Comedy and drama in Auber's Fra Diavolo: a balance well obtained at Opera di Roma

Por Renato Verga, 13 de octubre de 2017
The Mediterranean setting of Auber's work is recreated by director Giorgio Barberio Corsetti with its intriguing teatro-immagine, where video projections and virtual reality are predominant.
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Roma
13 oct 2017
Comedy and drama in Auber's Fra Diavolo: a balance well obtained at Opera di Roma
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Demons and angels: Der Freischütz at La Scala

Por Renato Verga, 10 de octubre de 2017
Hartmann's staging takes a bizarre twist in the end since so far the staging had followed the naïve story very faithfully without any weird implications.
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Milán
10 oct 2017
Demons and angels: Der Freischütz at La Scala
Por Renato Verga
Parma

A melancholy Falstaff at the Verdi Festival in Parma

Por Renato Verga, 1 de octubre de 2017
Not a particularly revealing Falstaff, but a pleasing performance though. Maybe one would have expected something of greater impact from a festival like this one, but that goal had already accomplished by Graham Vick with his Stiffelio the night before...
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Parma
1 oct 2017
A melancholy Falstaff at the Verdi Festival in Parma
Por Renato Verga
Milán

Plácido Domingo returns to La Scala in Handel's Tamerlano

Por Renato Verga, 12 de septiembre de 2017
Director Davide Livermore updates the plot to the period of the Russian Revolution, October 1917, a far echo of that turning point in 1403 when the Ottoman sultan Bajazet was defeated by the Tartar Timburlaine.
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Milán
12 sept 2017
Domingo returns to La Scala in Tamerlano
Por Renato Verga