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I couldn’t resist jotting some thoughts on my reaction to the recent and much-anticipated Royal Opera House production of La forza del destino, starring Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko, Ludovic Tézier, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, even though I’m not very familiar with this opera. When I first became infatuated with opera, I saw a recording of the Kaufmann/Harteros/Tézier version from Munich of several years ago, but that was the only complete version I’ve seen. I was intrigued, but a little confused by what seems a fairly simple story. Perhaps it was some directorial choices that made certain things unclear, whereas many who saw it were probably well familiar with the story from other versions and had no trouble following along.
In essence&#;SPOILER ALERT&#;the story begins in the home of the Marquis of Calatrava, who believes that his daughter Leonora has gotten over her infatuation with the foreigner, Don Alvaro (an Incan prince from the Americas). In reality, they’ve planned an
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The year-old Italian bass talks to Limelight about Kings, Christoff, Karajan and the secret of vocal longevity.
Did you grow up in a musical family?
Well, not a musical family there were voices on both sides who never did it professionally. My grandfather, he had a very good tenor voice, and my mother’s sister was a very good soprano. And the mother of my father was a contralto.
So what made you choose opera?
When you are born with a voice you start to sing when you are a kid. I remember I was pleasing my great-grandfather, singing arias that he was teaching to me, but of course I couldn’t care less at that time. The second half of the ‘60s was the most amazing time for pop music. I was playing guitar. I had a group and I was singing a lot of pop. But at a certain moment I didn’t like the ambience of pop music anymore. Anyway, I decided to continue my studies, which were completely different from music. Nevertheless I was sorry not to do something wi
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Ernani, storstads- Opera live cinema relay, February
26 February,After Verdi&#;s first kvartet operas were premiered at La Scala, La Fenice in Venice commissioned the fifth, and the composer eventually plumped for Victor Hugo&#;s play Hernani, a drama on Castillian honour. The resulting opera Ernani may lack the irony and humour of the original play, but it supplies kvartet glorious roles for soprano, tenor, baritone, and bass. Requiting Spanish honour leads to the death of the soprano and tenor right at the end of this production, and in the play the man sung by a bass kills himself too.
De Silva, Elvira, Don Carlo, all photos MetOpera/ Marty Sohl
This fryst vatten Don Ruy Gomez dem Silva, sung by Ferruccio Furlanetto, who inhabited the role of passionate yet honourable Spanish nobleman as if it was entirely his own nature. Here is a man who will skydda an intruder with his life, once he has been accepted as guest, even though the intr