Große Namen, kleine Wirkung: I due Foscari in Salzburg

By Daniel Url, 13 August 2017

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Reviewed at Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg on 11 August 2017

Verdi, I due Foscari (Concert performance)

Michele Mariotti, Conductor

Plácido Domingo, Francesco Foscari

Joseph Calleja, Jacopo Foscari

Guanqun Yu, Lucrezia Contarini

Roberto Tagliavini, Jacopo Loredano

Bror Magnus Tødenes, Barbarigo

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

Philharmonia Chor Wien

Walter Zeh, Choirmaster / chorus director

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10 Days in a Madhouse is a musically and dramatically excellent but disturbing insight into conditions in a women’s asylum brought to life in Toronto by an excellent production.

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Peter Quantrill, 15th June

First class young voices and bewitchingly stylised designs shine through the murk at the Bucharest Opera Festival.

****1

L’Orfeo, the world’s first great opera, premieres at Glyndebourne

Roy Westbrook, 14th June

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Aldeburgh Festival dives in at the deep end with Pelléas et Mélisande

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Monteverdi and Ulisse return happily to Garsington Opera

David Karlin, 12th June

Laurence Cummings and John Caird’s second Garsington exploration of the operas of Monteverdi brims with wonderfully playing and singing in an attractive setting.

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Daniel Url

Daniel Url hat Musik- & Tanzwissenschaft in Salzburg und Trondheim (Norwegen) studiert. Sein Hauptinteresse gilt der Oper (besonders Wagner und Strauss) und Gesang im Allgemeinen, aber auch großen sinfonischen Werken. Auf der Suche nach der perfekten Opernaufführung durchstreift er regelmäßig die großen Opernhäuser des gesamten deutschsprachigen Raums.

Große Namen, kleine Wirkung: Konzertante Aufführung von I due Foscari in Salzburg