A melancholy Falstaff at the Verdi Festival in Parma

Par Renato Verga, 02 octobre 2017

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Critique faite à Teatro Regio di Parma, Parma, le 1 octobre 2017

Verdi, Falstaff

Teatro Regio di Parma

Riccardo Frizza, Direction

Jacopo Spirei, Mise en scène

Nikolaus Webern, Décors

Silvia Aymonino, Costumes

Roberto de Candia, Sir John Falstaff

Giorgio Caoduro, Ford

Amarilli Nizza, Alice Ford

Juan Francisco Gatell, Fenton

Laura Giordano, Nannetta

Sonia Prina, Mistress Quickly

Jurgita Adamonytė, Meg Page

Andrea Giovannini, Bardolfo

Federico Benetti, Pistola

Gregory Bonfatti, Le Docteur Caïus

Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma

Orchestra dell'Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini

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Mark Pullinger, 25th September

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****1

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Mark Pullinger, 24th September

All you need to stage Trovatore, according to Enrico Caruso, are “the four greatest singers in the world”. The Verdi Festival may have found the four loudest...

***11

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Mark Pullinger, 22nd September

Audience protests against Roberto Abbado interrupt the opening night of the festival, Yannis Kokkos' staging of La forza del destino.

***11

A traditional Attila at the Verdi Festival in Parma

James Imam, 30th September

Traditionally, Italy's most unforgiving loggionisti are reputed to reside at Parma's Teatro Regio. Thankfully for the cast, they appear to be a dying breed.

***11

Wilson's lunar Trouvère the antithesis of grand opéra

Renato Verga, 29th September

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.

***11

Nothing short of a coup: Stiffelio at the Verdi Festival, Parma

James Imam, 30th September

Without recourse to virtual reality or hallucinogens, Vick has created a suggestive, vividly surreal world where one's reference points are lost to the wind.

*****

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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.