From Russia with love, recrimination and death

Par Lorenzo Fiorito, 13 mai 2016

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Critique faite à Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, le 8 mai 2016

Giordano, Fedora

Teatro di San Carlo

Asher Fisch, Direction

Lamberto Puggelli, Mise en scène

Luisa Spinatelli, Décors, Costumes

Fiorenza Cedolins, Princesse Fedora Romazov

Giuseppe Filianoti, Comte Loris Ipanov

Roberto de Candia, De Siriex

Barbara Bargnesi, Comtesse Olga Sukarev

Francesca Russo Ermolli, Dimitri

Gianluca Sorrentino, Baron Rouvel

Cristiano Olivieri, Désiré

John Paul Huckle, Borov, Cirillo

Daniele Piscopo, Gretch

Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

Roberto Moreschi, Piano

Rosa Feola’s Lucia rescues a San Carlo production showing its age

Lorenzo Fiorito, 11th March

Gianni Amelio's 2021 production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro di San Carlo serves the music, but it no longer commands the same sense of discovery.

***11

Laurent Pelly’s Falstaff passes the Naples test with flying colours

Lorenzo Fiorito, 15th February

The French director’s much-travelled production arrives at the Teatro di San Carlo, displaying a precise balance between word, gesture and voice.

*****

Ludovic Tézier delivers a noble Nabucco in Naples

Lorenzo Fiorito, 18th January

Andreas Homoki’s staging at the Teatro di San Carlo, setting aside a few inconsistencies with the libretto, does not indulge in redundant symbolism.

***11

Ennio Morricone’s only opera, Partenope, finally premiered in Naples

Lorenzo Fiorito, 14th December

Vanessa Beecroft’s production of Ennio Morricone’s demanding sole opera relies on strong visual images.

***11

San Carlo’s Medea a clash of worlds in a neoclassical framework

Lorenzo Fiorito, 10th December

A new Medea at the Teatro di San Carlo presents three distinct visions – neoclassical in the pit, expressionistic on stage and conceptual in the direction – that never fully merge.

***11

Vocal triumph in Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro di San Carlo

Lorenzo Fiorito, 11th October

Faithful to the libretto’s dramaturgy, the staging unfolds in scenographic environments of strong impact -

****1

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.

Fedora in Naples: from Russia with love, recrimination and death