Italian musical metamorphoses in Yekaterinburg

By Olga de Kort, 10 October 2015

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Reviewed at Sverdlovsk State Academic Philharmonic: Great Hall, Yekaterinburg on 7 October 2015

Respighi, Trittico botticelliano 'Three Botticelli Pictures'

Respighi, Concerto Gregoriano

Romitelli, Dead City Radio

Maderna, Composition No. 1

Marco Angius, Director

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

Josef Špaček Jr, Violin

Anastasia Bartoli a regal Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival

Laura Servidei, 9th August

The ROF presents a new production of Ermione, a title not often performed, with a star-studded cast including divo Juan Diego Flórez.

****1

The Rossini Opera Festival comes home! Bianca e Falliero in Pesaro

Laura Servidei, 7th August

Jessica Pratt leads a strong cast in a beautiful performance of one of Rossini’s unjustly forgotten masterpieces, under the spectacular baton of Roberto Abbado, despite an unremarkable new production by Jean-Louis Grinda.

***11

Adelaide di Borgogna returns to the Rossini Opera Festival

Laura Servidei, 13th August

The ROF presents a new, cheeky production of Adelaide, by Arnaud Bernard, based on a unoriginal but very well executed “meta-theatrical” take, with an exemplary cast.

****1

Eduardo e Cristina: a rarity opens the Rossini Festival

Laura Servidei, 11th August

A strong cast and an inspiring production deliver the latest opera staged at the Rossini Opera Festival.

****1

Prime cuts: Fabio Luisi conducts Wagner in Aix

Mark Pullinger, 8th April

The Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai impresses in “bleeding chunks” from Wagner operas at the Festival de Pâques d'Aix-en-Provence.

****1

Reverence and beauty in Mariotti’s Verdi Requiem in Parma

Mark Pullinger, 23rd September

A Verdi Festival account where the orchestral detail registers with true distinction and the singing impresses.

****1

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Olga de Kort

Musicologist and music critic Olga de Kort (The Netherlands) studied in Russia (piano, culture sciences), France (journalism) and the Netherlands (musicology and music history, music education and communication, organ) where she has lived from 1998. She is active as a music journalist, lecturer in music history and culture and as a freelance musician. She writes for Piano Bulletin, Pianist, Luister, Preludium, De Klank, Het Orgel, Muziek&Liturgie, Kunstzone and Bachtrack. Besides her personal journalist blog, Olga de Kort has a website about Russian music in the Netherlands. At this moment she is working on a book about Russian music and musicians in the Netherlands and on a biography of Russian singer Anna El Tour.