Cecilia Bartoli and Rolando Villazón at the Barbican

By Dominic Lowe, 20 December 2015

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Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 18 December 2015

Mozart, Così fan tutte, K588: Overture

Mozart, Aria for Tenor, "Si mostra la sorte", K209

Mozart, Aria for Soprano, "Chi sà, chi sà, qual sia", K582

Mozart, Don Giovanni, K527: Là ci darem la mano

Rossini, La Cenerentola (Cinderella): Overture

Donizetti, Il duca d'Alba: Angelo casto e bel

Rossini, La Cenerentola (Cinderella): Nacqui all'affanno... Non più mesta

Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore: Una parola, Adina

Bellini, Concerto for oboe and strings

Bellini, Torna, vezzosa Fillide

Rossini, La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder): Overture

Rossini, Otello: Assisa al piè d'un salice

Rossini, Otello: Deh calma, o Ciel, nel sonno

Rossini, Otello: Eccomi giunto inosservato

Rossini, Otello: Non arrestare il colpo

Rossini, Otello: Notte per me funesta

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-soprano

Rolando Villazón, Tenor

Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich

Ada Pesch, Conductor

Pier Luigi Fabretti, Oboe

Handel’s Serse as a quirky modern tale in Zurich

Laura Servidei, 29th September

Christophe Dumaux shines as Arsamene in Nina Russi’s enjoyable production of Handel’s masterpiece revived at the Opernhaus Zürich under the baton of Enrico Onofri.

***11

Cecilia Bartoli does it again: an effervescent Cenerentola in Zurich

Laura Servidei, 8th March

The Opernhaus Zürich presents yet another Cenerentola with Cecilia Bartoli in the title role, surrounded by a great cast, with the support of the period orchestra La Scintilla, under Gianluca Capuano's knowledgeable baton.

****1

Handel in all his glory with Jonathan Cohen and La Scintilla in Zurich

Laura Servidei, 27th February

Jonathan Cohen leads the orchestra La Scintilla, on original instruments, in an exciting all-Handel program at the Opernhaus Zurich.

****1

Mozart’s Entführung as a jukebox musical in Zurich

Laura Servidei, 5th November

The Opernhaus Zurich revives a 2016 production by David Hermann, where the spoken dialogue is removed and the story completely altered.

**111

Pergolesi’s L’Olimpiade as a reflection on old age in Zurich

Laura Servidei, 13th March

The Opernhaus Zurich presents Pergolesi’s masterpiece as an accompaniment to moving videos of elderly citizens.

L’italiana arrives in Zurich from Salzburg on a dromedary’s back

Laura Servidei, 6th March

Opernhaus Zürich presents a Salzburg Festival production of Rossini’s first masterpiece, with a stellar cast and an orchestra on original instruments, under the baton of Gianluca Capuano.

*****

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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.

Fireworks amidst the winter colds: Cecilia Bartoli and Rolando Villazón at the Barbican