Vick's new Magic Flute opens the Macerata festival

Por James Imam, 23 julio 2018

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“Vick's is a generalised representation of the power of politics, business and religion”

Crítica hecha desde Arena Sferisterio, Macerata el 20 julio 2018

Mozart, La flauta mágica (Die Zauberflöte)

Daniel Cohen, Dirección

Graham Vick, Dirección de escena

Stuart Nunn, Diseño de escena, Diseño de vestuario

Giovanni Sala, Tamino

Valentina Mastrangelo, Pamina

Tetiana Zhuravel, Queen of the Night

Guido Loconsolo, Papageno

Antonio Di Matteo, Sarastro

Lucrezia Drei, First Lady

Eleonora Cilli, Second Lady

Adriana di Paola, Third Lady

Marcell Bakonyi, The Speaker (Der Sprecher)

Paola Leoci, Papagena

Manuel Pierattelli, Monostatos

Orchestra Regionale delle Marche

Coro Lirico Marchigiano "Vincenzo Bellini"

Juego de identidades en el Liceu: Un ballo in maschera

Maria Sánchez, 9th February

La última producción del tándem Vick-Spirei defiende una postura fluida entre géneros y convenciones; una puesta de escena bien calibrada por el temple verdiano de Riccardo Frizza.

*****

La flauta mágica en Les Arts: Mozart como chirigota

Juan José Freijo, 1st December

La presentación de La flauta mágica de Vick en Les Arts prometía una intensidad subversiva que resultó tan solo una sucesión de clichés trasnochados.

**111

Keri-Lynn Wilson leads an irrepressible Lady Macbeth at the Met

Robert Levine, 29th September

Making her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, the wife of Met GM Peter Gelb crushes any talk of nepotism at the downbeat.

*****

Embracing the unfinished: a compelling Zaide in Rome

Elena Luporini, 18th October

Graham Vick's new staging of Mozart's unfinished Singspiel marks a welcome, exciting reopening of Teatro Costanzi after the Covid-19 shutdown.

****1

The Queen is back: Semiramide in Pesaro

Laura Servidei, 14th August

Michele Mariotti triumphs in Rossini’s masterpiece with a good cast led by Salome Jicia and a new production, only partially successful.

****1

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

Renato Verga, 28th May

The wealth of visual images displayed by director Graham Vick goes with the extraordinary richness of Korngold's music.

****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.

Graham Vick's new Magic Flute opens the Macerata Opera Festival