A dispiriting Maria Stuarda in Genoa

By James Imam, 19 May 2017

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“Antoniozzi... gives the impression that he is unable to take Maria Stuarda seriously”

Reviewed at Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa on 17 May 2017

Donizetti, Maria Stuarda

Opera Carlo Felice Genova

Andriy Yurkevych, Conductor

Alfonso Antoniozzi, Director, Set Designer

Gianluca Falaschi, Costume Designer

Elena Moşuc, Maria Stuarda

Silvia Tro Santafé, Elisabetta

Celso Albelo, Earl of Leicester

Stefano Antonucci, Cecil

Andrea Concetti, Talbot

Orchestra dell'Opera Carlo Felice Genova

Coro dell'Opera Carlo Felice Genova

Simon Boccanegra in Genoa

Courtney Smith, 22nd October

Excellent music-making over an indecisive but faithful Simon Boccanegra production opens Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice new season.

***11

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

Scarpia stabbed, Tosca smothered by Livermore’s La Scala staging

Mark Pullinger, 7th December

Anna Netrebko chews the scenery as Floria Tosca… and there’s a lot of it to get her teeth into in David Livermore’s busy staging in Milan.

***11

Rossini's Turk given in memory of Alberto Zedda

Renato Verga, 12th March

In Livermore's staging the scheme becomes meta-cinematographic: the poet Prosdocimus here has Marcello Mastroianni's features in Fellini's film 8 ½.

***11

Paisiello's La Grotta di Trofonio, fun and happy ending in Martina Franca

Lorenzo Fiorito, 31st July

The revival of La Grotta di Trofonio is part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Paisiello's death, in co-production with Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

***11

Tutino's Le braci: embers of regret never extinguished

Lorenzo Fiorito, 1st August

A suggestive opera based on Sàndor Màrai's novel, at the Festival della Valle d'Itria.

****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.

A dispiriting première for Maria Stuarda at the Teatro Carlo Felice