Peruvian sunshine struggles to beat the clouds

Par Dominic Lowe, 30 mars 2016

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Critique faite à Royal Albert Hall, Londres, le 29 mars 2016

Mozart, La Flûte enchantée (Die Zauberflöte), K620: ouverture

Mozart, La Flûte enchantée (Die Zauberflöte), K620: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön

Mozart, La Betulia liberata, K118 (K74c): D'ogni colpa, la colpa maggiore

Rossini, Le barbier de Séville: Ouverture

Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia: Cessa di più resistere

Verdi, Nabucco: Overture

Verdi, Ernani: Come rugiada al cespite

Rascel, Arrivederci Roma

Di Lazzaro, Chitarra Romana

Kreisler, Prelude and Allegro

Donizetti, Me voglio fa'na casa

de Curtis, Torna a Surriento

Leoncavallo, Mattinata

Monti, Csárdás

Tosti, L'alba sepàra dalla luce l'ombra

de Curtis, Non ti scordar di me

Juan Diego Flórez, Ténor

Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini

Christopher Franklin, Direction

Avi Avital, Mandoline

Ksenija Sidorova, Accordéon

Rossini Opera Festival’s clever pairing of first and last laughs

Laura Servidei, 11th August

Rossini’s first staged opera, La cambiale di matrimonio, in a spirited production by Laurence Dale, paired with his late work Les soirées musicales in a successful performance.

****1

L’equivoco stravagante returns to the Rossini Opera Festival

Laura Servidei, 8th August

Rossini’s ill-fated farce finds new life in the intelligent and enjoyable 2019 production by Leiser and Caurier at the Rossini Opera Festival, featuring a great cast under the unwavering baton of Michele Spotti.

****1

Il signor Bruschino in Pesaro: silly farce, but musical masterpiece

Laura Servidei, 7th August

A successful new production of the maestro’s opera buffaat the Rossini Opera Festival with a solid cast led by Marina Monzó.

****1

The beginnings of a genius: Demetrio e Polibio

Laura Servidei, 15th August

ROF presents the first, immature effort of the composer in the successful production by Davide Livermore, with a solid cast led by Jessica Pratt.

***11

Juan Diego Flórez et Marina Monzó enflamment Aix-en-Provence

Irma Foletti, 17th April

Dans le programme le plus lyrique du Festival de Pâques, le ténor péruvien et la soprano espagnole ont fait merveille dans Rossini plus particulièrement.

****1

Entre songe et réalité : La Somnambule de Bellini ou le triomphe du beau chant

Anne-Laure Faubert, 11th April

Après dix ans d’absence, La Somnanbula de Bellini, opéra composé en 1830 et surfant sur la vague du romantisme et des sciences occultes, est enfin reprise au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées avec un distribution dominée par Sabine Devieilhe, touchante et sublime Amina.

****1

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Dominic Lowe

Dominic Lowe recently completed a degree in Classics, and one of his great interests is the reception of Greece and Rome in opera. A regular opera-goer since his very early teens, he is particularly keen on the hidden operatic gems of the 19th century. He is largely based in the South of England.

Peruvian sunshine struggles to beat the clouds: Juan Diego Flórez at the Royal Albert Hall