Buttered Tosti: Eleonora Buratto's Rosenblatt Recital

By Dominic Lowe, 12 October 2016

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“a clear syllabic savouring, an appreciation for the textual taste of what she was singing”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 10 October 2016

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492: Dove sono

Rossini, Le siège de Corinthe: Giusto ciel! in tal periglio

Mozart, Fantasie in D minor, K397

Bellini, Norma: Casta Diva

Verdi, Rigoletto: Tutte le feste al tempio

Puccini, La bohème: Sì, mi chiamano Mimì

Tosti, Malinconia no. 1: Dorme la selva, for voice and piano

Tosti, Malinconia no. 2: Quand'io ti guardo, for voice and piano

Tosti, Malinconia no. 3: L'ora è tarda, for voice and piano

Tosti, Malinconia no. 4: Or dunque addio, for voice and piano

Tosti, Malinconia no. 5: Chi sei tu che mi parli, for voice and piano

Alfano, Tre poemi di Tagore: Parlami amor mio

Liszt, Isolde's Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, transc. for piano, S 447

Tosti, Lasciami! Lascia ch'io respiri

Tosti, L'alba sepàra dalla luce l'ombra

Tosti, In van preghi

Tosti, Che dici, o parola del Saggio?

Tosti, A vucchella

Eleonora Buratto, Soprano

Nazzareno Carusi, Piano

An Idomeneo shattered to pieces at the Wiener Staatsoper

Orsolya Gyárfás, 23rd January

A committed cast struggles to lend a spark of life to Kasper Holten's static staging of Mozart's first mature opera.

**111

Luca Salsi breathes life into Abbado's minimalist Simon Boccanegra

Laura Servidei, 11th February

Generational shifts as La Scala presents a new production of Simon Boccanegra by Daniele Abbado (son of Claudio), conducted by Lorenzo Viotti (son of Marcello).

***11

Two-thirds of a triumph: Tatjana Gürbaca’s Trittico in Vienna

Chanda VanderHart, 16th October

The first premiere of the new Staatsoper season is a qualified success, led by Eleanora Buratto's superb Suor Angelica and Ambrogio Maestri's masterly Gianni Schicchi in Puccini's triptych of one-act operas.

****1

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

Florence's finest: Teatro del Maggio's compelling new Don Carlo

Roy Westbrook, 27th December

Five highly dissatisfied lead characters find only disastrous or ambiguous outcomes. Yet there are few greater operas than this.

*****

A fine showing for the 1884 Italian version of Don Carlo at the Met

Robert Levine, 7th November

A revival for Sir David McVicar's staging from last season, but this time reverting from French to the four-act Italian version, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.

****1

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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.

Buttered Tosti: Eleonora Buratto's Rosenblatt Recital at Wigmore Hall