Paisiello's La Grotta di Trofonio, fun and happy ending in Martina Franca

Par Lorenzo Fiorito, 07 août 2016

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Critique faite à Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca , le 31 juillet 2016

Paisiello, La grotta di Trofonio

Giuseppe Grazioli, Direction

Alfonso Antoniozzi, Mise en scène

Dario Gessati, Décors

Gianluca Falaschi, Costumes

Benedetta Mazzucato, Dori

Caterina Di Tonno, Rubinetta

Matteo Mezzaro, Artemidoro

Domenico Colaianni, Don Gasperone

Angela Nisi, Eufelia

Daniela Mazzucato, Madama Bartolina

Roberto Scandiuzzi, Trofonio

Giorgio Caoduro, Don Piastrone

Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia

Davide Livermore delivers a magical, enchanted Hoffmann at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 24th March

The new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann explores the gothic, magical nature of the story, with a solid cast led by Chaslin’s somewhat heavy baton.

***11

Scarpia stabbed, Tosca smothered by Livermore’s La Scala staging

Mark Pullinger, 7th December

Anna Netrebko chews the scenery as Floria Tosca… and there’s a lot of it to get her teeth into in David Livermore’s busy staging in Milan.

***11

A dispiriting Maria Stuarda in Genoa

James Imam, 17th May

One might have hoped for a memorable performance of the work for its absolute première at the Carlo Felice. Instead, this was an experience to quickly forget.

**111

Rossini's Turk given in memory of Alberto Zedda

Renato Verga, 12th March

In Livermore's staging the scheme becomes meta-cinematographic: the poet Prosdocimus here has Marcello Mastroianni's features in Fellini's film 8 ½.

***11

Tutino's Le braci: embers of regret never extinguished

Lorenzo Fiorito, 1st August

A suggestive opera based on Sàndor Màrai's novel, at the Festival della Valle d'Itria.

****1

Survivor guilt: Fedora at the Teatro Carlo Felice

Courtney Smith, 25th March

Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato make their role debuts in the first production of Umberto Giordano's Fedora at the Teatro Carlo Felice for 15 years.

***11

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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.