Juditha triumphans: A big night out for the girls in Venice

By Jonathan Sutherland, 08 July 2015

Loading, please wait...

See full listing

Reviewed at Teatro La Fenice, Venice on 5 July 2015

Vivaldi, Juditha triumphans, RV 644

Teatro La Fenice

Alessandro De Marchi, Conductor

Elena Barbalich, Director

Massimo Checchetto, Set Designer

Tommaso Lagattolla, Costume Designer

Paola Gardina, Vagaus

Teresa Iervolino, Holofernes

Manuela Custer, Juditha

Giulia Semenzato, Abra

Francesca Ascioti, Ozias

Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice

Coro del Teatro La Fenice

La clemenza di Tito at La Fenice: splendid score, sterile stage

Laura Servidei, 23rd November

Ivor Bolton leads a great cast in a superb musical production of Mozart’s last masterpiece, in a lukewarm new production by Paul Curran.

****1

Vivaldi’s pasticcio Bajazet given an extravagant staging

Laura Servidei, 7th June

Federico Maria Sardelli leads a great cast of specialists in a new production by Fabio Ceresa, perfectly attuned to the Baroque style.

****1

Orlando furioso: Vivaldi returns to Venice in a Baroque feast

Laura Servidei, 23rd September

Fabio Ceresa's spectacular production to the Teatro Malibran with a strong cast in the hands of Diego Fasolis.

****1

La Fenice closes season with a lively new Fille du regiment

Laura Servidei, 14th October

John Osborn dazzles again as Tonio in a nostalgic new production by Barbe and Doucet, with a strong cast under the baton of Stefano Ranzani.

***11

Full fathom five: Peter Grimes at La Fenice

Elena Luporini, 24th June

Finally reaching the stage of the Venetian theatre, Benjamin Britten's first major opera meets with success thanks to Juraj Valčuha's conducting, Paul Curran's staging and an excellent cast.

*****

Méphistophélès returns to the stage in Gounod’s Faust at La Fenice!

Laura Servidei, 30th April

The Teatro La Fenice reprises Joan Anton Rechi’s production in its full stage version, less inspiring than the one expanded through the whole theatre during Covid times.

***11

More reviews...

Jonathan Sutherland

Jonathan Sutherland is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. He is also an internationally renowned concert pianist specializing in the music of the 1930s. Jonathan’s first operatic experience was hearing Maria Callas sing Tosca in Covent Garden and he has since heard performances in all continents of the world including over 60 different productions at the Wiener Staatsoper. He has written for The Australian, Opera Today and The Opera Critic as well as Bachtrack. Jonathan speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently and is based in the south of France near Nice.