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"Anna Bolena" (Gaetano Donizetti) - Wiener Staatsoper - 05/04/1911

Yesterday we were able to attend an event remotely operatic of undoubted interest, thanks to the live broadcasts in movie theaters, from the Wiener Staatsoper of Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena" , whose greatest attraction lay in the debut of Russian soprano Anna Netrebko emblematic role in this bel canto , being accompanied by an equally interesting cast which featured Elina Garanca as Giovanna Seymour and Francesco Meli in the role of Lord Percy .

For this has chosen to debut a new production that has had the stage director Eric Genovese and musical direction I ask Evelino leading the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Wiener Staatsoper Choir .

To begin I will say that, although not all come out the round is always expected, could enjoy an evening of great opera. Well, I enjoy a say because, thanks to the bad relay that suffer, at least in theaters Kinepolis Valencia, for nearly a third of the first act were accompanied a crackling sound that was gaining in intensity until Netrebko make the girl from the exorcist and Meli in Darth Vader. And when the issue is half solved, it seems that should be at the cost of closing one of the sound channels, so that from then until the end of the work, but the girl in the exorcist went to sleep, the audio quality not just be as good as it would have been desirable.

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least important and most failed the night, I must say that the stage direction of Genovese seemed very unfortunate. The lack of originality of the proposal is overwhelming. It is true that features a colorful wardrobe of Luisa Spinatelli , sober and effective lighting, sometimes, of Bertrand Couderc and staging exudes a bombproof classicism. But all this is in purely anecdotal at the inability of regista to bring anything new.

nonsense I'm not asking not to use as Henry VIII get paqueteros in shorts or show a Boleyn junkie and addicted to bingo. It could reconcile a scenery and classic, with an address where you get actors, or at least try, to draw characters with a minimum consistent with a labor and stage movements that constitute a solid dramatic narrative vehicle appropriate to the musical discourse.

For Genovese, the result would not exceed the rehearsal of a Christmas Pre-school. It is a pity that the visual beauty that at times may present the proposal, despite the dark scenery and impersonal Jacques Gabel and Claire Sternberg , remain simply that, in outward appearance, because the inside is more hollow than the skull of Genovese and the final product is lifeless.

actors address is invalid. The singers came on stage and only your best or worse to know to guide their behavior. The appearances of Choir takes the cake, then burst on stage and singing remain static, as if that was the House of Click . So the feeling that one is left is to have attended a costumed concert version. It is a shame that, having assembled a team of such outstanding singers and is performing as well on the plane acting, he has not had a halfway decent stage direction that might have enhanced the overall performance. We have to wait until September to see if David McVicar a little job done better for "Anna Bolena" to open next season with the New York MET same two main characters of yesterday.

In the music department, fortunately, things went much better. Address Italian Evelino I ask not that was to shoot rockets, but remained at a very acceptable level. At times there was some haste in tempi which was combined with passages too slow, possibly to encourage the singers. Sin of excess volumes, and that's the impression I got in the cinema, and there was some layoffs at the inputs of metals. Moreover, his was not a reading that would leave residue of genius, but also hindered the vocal level was on stage, but it is also true that it was for the invaluable help of an orchestral ensemble of the first magnitude as Vienna Philharmonic , it is almost impossible to sound bad, however limited the batutero shift.

The Choir filling women did better than men, which were seen too many mismatches, and lack of stage direction favored not just shine.

But what really matters in the evening were the solo voices were heard, with the trio, at least as far as I'm concerned, they managed to bring out the emotion and worth the trip and the noise endured.

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Most focused on assisting the principal role debut Anna Netrebko. I am among those who maintain that the best performance of the singer are in other codes and the bel canto its territory is not ideal. The coloratura always seems to be one of the weaknesses showing some trampling. Also, his breath control prevents a more rounded and set in style, spoiling the line of song, yet the final result on paper so complicated to remember who is making his debut, I thought it was very positive, with all the quirks that are wanted, and certainly much better than I expected.

showed an acceptable fiato link got some beautiful moments, with filados and dreamy pianissimo . The treble to concerto ended with a beautiful ending the first act was really spectacular. Sweeping force and verve with which he played "Coppia Iniquity" and full of sweetness and sensitivity that shades the chiseled "Al dolce guidami" compensate for any defect that you wish to search. Stage was complete delivery and interpretation of irreproachable character, within the constraints set by Genovese. In short, I think it has been a fantastic debut.

Elina Garanca, who was recently in Barcelona playing the same role of Giovanna Seymour , returned to marvel at his wonderful voice. He was absolutely certain in the agility, while threading a superb treble and bass solvents. Only the repair could be held as usual, the coolness that seems to emerge, possibly contributing to that sense of ease with which he sings, without apparent effort, as if reciting the letter of bar snacks. And then just above features singers surrounded by sweaty and disheveled as she shines like fresh out of makeup. But that hardly matters when alleged coldness with his instrument manages to convey so many beauty and achieved a degree of perfection vocal range and stylistic appropriateness. Without a doubt, has become, today, in reference Seymour.

Francesco Meli is a tenor for whom I have weakness after having listened to Les Arts as Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor" . Just came a little final aria and in the most acute tension and showed some voice tended to open and waving in excess, but in return was marked during the night some pianos scandal, wore a beautiful center, bright and shiny and, above all, managed to draw a bound and with intent phrasing, beautiful.

For the rest of the cast, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo Enrico was the king . The role comes something great Italian, because he, but to strive, not a real low, which in the most serious aphonic tended to burp. Elizabeth Kulmann as Smetona was really well, paraphrasing with intensity and great delivery stage (self-taught, of course). Right Dan Paul Dumitrescu was as Rochefort; and I was very poor Peter Jelosists as Hervey, from such troubles to sing each of their sentences at the end defecose swear.

At the end of the function, the audience filling the entire theater was taxed a huge ovation to the female partner and I missed a prize for hottest Meli was less acclaimed than D'Arcangelo or Kulmann .

now only hope that the fates conspire and realized the rumors that circulated at the time about what would Mortier Madrid Anna Netrebko to sing "Anna Bolena" ... Although the progress that has seen the Belgian ...