Bachtrack logo

Vasily Barkhatov's car crash Turandot opens the season in Naples

Turandot
© Luciano Romano
Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot) and Yusif Eyvazov (Calaf)
© Luciano Romano
Turandot, Act 2
© Luciano Romano
Loading, please wait...
See full listing
“gives Barkhatov the pretext to roam freely in the forest of his cultural fetishes”
Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 12 December 2023
Puccini, Turandot
Teatro di San Carlo
Dan Ettinger, Conductor
Vasily Barkhatov, Director
Zinovy Margolin, Set Designer
Galya Solodovnikova, Costume Designer
Alexander Sivaev, Lighting Designer
Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo
Coro del Teatro di San Carlo
Sondra Radvanovsky, Turandot
Yusif Eyvazov, Calaf
Rosa Feola, Liù
Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Timur
Nicola Martinucci, Emperor Altoum
Roberto de Candia, Ping
Gregory Bonfatti, Pang
Francesco Pittari, Pong
Sergio Vitale, Mandarin
Rosa Feola’s Lucia rescues a San Carlo production showing its age
***11
Laurent Pelly’s Falstaff passes the Naples test with flying colours
*****
Ludovic Tézier delivers a noble Nabucco in Naples
***11
Ennio Morricone’s only opera, Partenope, finally premiered in Naples
***11
San Carlo’s Medea a clash of worlds in a neoclassical framework
***11
Vocal triumph in Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro di San Carlo
****1
More reviews...
Related articles
Loading image...
Edward Gardner in fracas with Teatro San Carlo, claiming “mafia” links
Loading image...
Elena Stikhina on Salzburg, Tosca and the reality of a singer’s life
Loading image...
A journey through Puccini’s Tuscany
Loading image...
Puccini and the moderns: a composer in the 20th century
Lorenzo Fiorito