In Moscow, a rare outing for Bellini’s Il pirata

By Edward Sava-Segal, 24 January 2021

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“the score still sounds fresh to modern ears”

Reviewed at Novaya Opera, Moscow on 23 January 2021

Bellini, Il pirata (Concert performance)

Novaya Opera

Andrey Lebedev, Conductor

Victoria Agarkova, Director

Maya Shavdatuashvili, Lighting Designer

Pavel Yankovsky, Ernesto

Dmitry Korchak, Gualtiero

Victoria Shevtsova, Adele

Irina Kostina, Imogene

Alexander Skvarko, Itulbo

Vitaly Efanov, Goffredo

Chorus of Novaya Opera

Orchestra of Novaya Opera

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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.