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William Tell brims with a palpable sense of relevance in concert performance at the Edinburgh Festival

By Thomas May, 27 August 2014
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“There was symphonic heft, an almost Beethovenian muscularity, in the score's most powerful climaxes”
Reviewed at Usher Hall, Edinburgh on 26 August 2014
Programme
Rossini, Guillaume Tell (William Tell)
Performers
Teatro Regio di Torino
Gianandrea Noseda, Conductor
Dalibor Jenis, Guillaume Tell
Marina Bucciarelli, Jemmy
Angela Meade, Mathilde
John Osborn, Arnold Melchthal
Luca Casalin, Rodolphe
Fabrizio Beggi, Melchthal senior
Luca Tittoto, Gesler
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Riccardo Muti triumphs with Un ballo in maschera in Turin
Laura Servidei, 23rd February

The Teatro Regio di Torino presents Andrea de Rosa's new production of Verdi’s operal, with a solid cast under the baton of Riccardo Muti. 

***11
The Pearl Fishers: Turin opens its operatic season
Renato Verga, 3rd October
The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.
**111
The first modern staged performance of Paër’s Agnese in Turin
Laura Servidei, 17th March
The Teatro Regio presents a Classical rarity with echoes of Mozart and anticipations of Rossini. Diego Fasolis conducts with imagination and spunk.
***11
In Turin's Trovatore, the women carry the day
Renato Verga, 10th October
Female voices dominate in the vocal cast: Rachel Willis-Sørensen debuts as Leonora and charms the audience; Anna Maria Chiuri has the temperament and rich vocality requested by the role of the gypsy.
***11
A strong Italian cast for Così fan tutte in Turin
Laura Servidei, 1st July
Diego Fasolis gives an enlightened, 18th-century account of the Mozart/da Ponte masterpiece, with great precision and elegance.
****1
On the female condition: two 20th-century operas in Turin
Renato Verga, 16th May
Two different variations of the female conditions: one of 1909 and now utterly out-of-date, the second of 1959 much more ut-to-date.
****1
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Thomas May
Thomas May
Thomas May is a writer and translator based in Seattle. His books include Decoding Wagner and The John Adams Reader, and he blogs about the arts at memeteria.com. He has written for The Washington Post, Gramophone, Listen, Symphony magazine, OPERA America, crosscut.com, and many other publications.