A Teatro Nuovo performance with a thieving magpie and silvery voices

By Edward Sava-Segal, 20 July 2019

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Reviewed at Jazz at Lincoln Center: Rose Theater, New York City on 18 July 2019

Rossini, La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)

Teatro Nuovo

Rachelle Jonck, Conductor

Alisa Jordheim, Ninetta

Hannah Ludwig, Pippo

Oliver Sewell, Giannetto

Erik Van Heyningen, Fernando Villabella

Hans Tashjian, Il Podestà

Allison Gish, Lucia

Rob McGinness, Fabrizio Vingradito

Spencer Viator, Isacco

Jacob Wright, Antonio

Samuel Ferreira, Giorgio

Peter Warren, Ernesto

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Soprano Chelsea Lehnea is a revelation in a rare opportunity to see Donizetti's operatic take on the early Christian martyr Polyeuctus.

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Bellini's mysterious Straniera appears in New York

Robert Levine, 17th July

The recently formed Teatro Nuovo provide fine entertainment with Bellini's rarely performed second opera.

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Teatro Nuovo sheds new light on bel canto’s beginnings

Edward Sava-Segal, 5th August

Maestro Crutchfield carefully underlined the transitional character of the music, neither Classical nor Romantic.

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The early flowering of opera: a fragrant L’Orfeo at Schwetzingen

Mengguang Huang, 3rd May

Markus Bothe’s Botticelli-inspired production fuses tableau vivant aesthetics with Jörg Halubek’s surgical musical precision, offering a peerless, vivid tribute to the fragrant dawn of opera.

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Boston Doodle Dandy: Boston Lyric Opera presents La Fille du régiment

Kevin Wells, 1st May

Very few singers can hold an audience in the palm of their hand the way Brenda Rae as Marie does in this rollicking frolic.

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Two funerals and a bedding at the Linbury Theatre

Eleanor Knight, 1st May

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.