I Lombardi alla prima crociata returns to Turin after 93 years

By James Imam, 23 April 2018

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Reviewed at Teatro Regio di Torino, Turin on 20 April 2018

Verdi, I lombardi alla prima crociata

Teatro Regio di Torino

Michele Mariotti, Conductor

Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera, Director

Jean-Guy Lecat, Set Designer

Fernand Ruiz, Costume Designer

Gabriele Mangione, Arvino

Marko Mimica, Pagano/Hermit

Maria Billeri, Giselda

Giuseppe Gipali, Oronte

Lavinia Bini, Viclinda

Alexandra Zabala, Sofia

Vladimir Jurlin, Acciano

Antonio Di Matteo, Pirro

Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino

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Laura Servidei, 23rd February

The Teatro Regio di Torino presents Andrea de Rosa's new production of Verdi’s operal, with a solid cast under the baton of Riccardo Muti.

***11

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Renato Verga, 3rd October

The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.

**111

The first modern staged performance of Paër’s Agnese in Turin

Laura Servidei, 17th March

The Teatro Regio presents a Classical rarity with echoes of Mozart and anticipations of Rossini. Diego Fasolis conducts with imagination and spunk.

***11

In Turin's Trovatore, the women carry the day

Renato Verga, 10th October

Female voices dominate in the vocal cast: Rachel Willis-Sørensen debuts as Leonora and charms the audience; Anna Maria Chiuri has the temperament and rich vocality requested by the role of the gypsy.

***11

A strong Italian cast for Così fan tutte in Turin

Laura Servidei, 1st July

Diego Fasolis gives an enlightened, 18th-century account of the Mozart/da Ponte masterpiece, with great precision and elegance.

****1

On the female condition: two 20th-century operas in Turin

Renato Verga, 16th May

Two different variations of the female conditions: one of 1909 and now utterly out-of-date, the second of 1959 much more ut-to-date.

****1

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James Imam

James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.

I Lombardi alla prima crociata returns to Turin’s Teatro Regio after 93 years