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Carolina López Moreno (Santuzza) und Elisabetta Fiorillo (Mamma Lucia)

Carolina López Moreno (Santuzza), Giorgio Berrugi (Turiddu) und Eva Zaïcik (Lola)

Carolina López Moreno (Santuzza) und Domen Križaj (Alfio)

By Christoph Wurzel, 14 November 2022

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“ein Höchstmaß an emphatisch aufblühender Melodik”

Reviewed at Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden on 11 November 2022

Puccini, Messa di Gloria (Credo)

Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana (Concert performance)

Thomas Hengelbrock, Conductor

Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor

Carolina López Moreno, Santuzza

Giorgio Berrugi, Turiddu

Domen Križaj, Alfio

Eva Zaïcik, Lola

Elisabetta Fiorillo, Mamma Lucia

Jetske Mijnssen's Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

Eleanor Knight, 4th June

Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.

*****

Tavener's Krishna fails to convince in world premiere

Nick Boston, 4th June

John Tavener's “mystical pantomime” proves a disappointment, despite strong performances from singers and orchestra in David Pountney's production.

***11

Antonia Bembo’s Ercole amante wins hearts at the Opéra de Paris

David Karlin, 2nd June

Leonardo García-Alarcón's exhumation of Bembo's work proves a winner, in a hyper-quirky staging by Netia Jones with Julie Fuchs as the pick of the fine singers.

****1

Chasing the American Dream: UK premiere for Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up

Mark Pullinger, 1st June

Amy Lane directs an intimate staging of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s 2018 chamber opera in the compact Milton Court Theatre.

****1

Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando

Eleanor Knight, 30th May

Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of Handel's Orlando.

***11

Bang! Mozart’s volcano erupts in Opera Holland Park’s Così fan tutte

Peter Quantrill, 28th May

Mount Vesuvius looms over Cecilia Stinton’s compelling new production of Così fan tutte.

****1

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Christoph Wurzel

Nach dem Studium der Germanistik, Politikwissenschaft, Philosophie und Musikwissenschaft war Christoph Wurzel lange im pädagogischen Bereich tätig. Er interessiert sich besonders für die gesellschaftlich relevanten Aspekte der Musik. Er lebt in Baden – Baden und schreibt für verschiedene Magazine in Deutschland.

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