Vick's new Magic Flute opens the Macerata festival

Par James Imam, 23 juillet 2018

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

Critique faite à Arena Sferisterio, Macerata, le 20 juillet 2018

Mozart, La Flûte enchantée (Die Zauberflöte)

Daniel Cohen, Direction

Graham Vick, Mise en scène

Stuart Nunn, Décors, Costumes

Giovanni Sala, Tamino

Valentina Mastrangelo, Pamina

Tetiana Zhuravel, Reine de la nuit

Guido Loconsolo, Papageno

Antonio Di Matteo, Sarastro

Lucrezia Drei, Première Dame

Eleonora Cilli, Deuxième Dame

Adriana di Paola, Troisième Dame

Marcell Bakonyi, L'Orateur (Der Sprecher)

Paola Leoci, Papagena

Manuel Pierattelli, Monostatos

Orchestra Regionale delle Marche

Coro Lirico Marchigiano "Vincenzo Bellini"

Le Roi Arthus de Thomas Hampson

Gilles Lesur, 16th May

On attendait beaucoup de cette production du Roi Arthus de Chausson à l'Opéra de Paris mais force est de reconnaître que cette redécouverte ne fut qu’un demi-succès ou plutôt même un demi-échec.

***11

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.

*****

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