Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Teatro Nuovo’s concerts of Donizetti’s “Poliuto” and the Ricci brothers’ “Crispino e la Comare” delight with historically informed ...
If the purpose of West Edge Opera’s Opera Medium Rare series is to introduce audiences to seldom-performed works, then Saturday afternoon’s performance of “Poliuto” was an unqualified success. And if ...
Usually, when long-neglected works somehow find their way to the forefront, we find there’s a pretty good reason for the lack of interest. Happily for us, this did not apply to Donizetti’s POLIUTO, ...
Bel canto, or “beautiful singing,” can be applied to most operas, but it has come to describe the hundreds of Italian works composed during the first half of the 19th century. Most have languished ...
Gaetano Donizetti’s Poliuto (1848) is rarely performed. Mariame Clèment’s production, which opened Glyndebourne’s season last night, was the premiere of the work in this country (though the music has ...
From the opening scene of massive grey pillars on which are projected videos of war-torn Sarajevo, the staging is in stark contrast to the gorgeous imagery that director/designer team of Mariame ...
Anyone hoping for a repeat of director Mariame Clément's ebullient 2013 Don Pasquale will be disappointed by the sombre, monolithic visuals on offer here. There's not a toga or a lion in sight for a ...
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