A Nearly Perfect Orfeo in Gothenburg

  Cristoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Parma version)  Soloists, Gothenburg Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Laurence Cummings (conductor),  GöteborgsOperan 08.02.2014 (NS) Cast: Orfeo: Katarina Karnéus Euridice: Kerstin Avemo Amore: Mia Karlsson Production: GöteborgsOperan Direction: David Radok Set design: Lars-Åke Thessman Choreography: Håkan Meyer Costume design: Karin Erskine Lighting: Torkel Blomkvist The Gothenburg Opera took the brave decision to … Read more

LA Sonnambula : Attractive but Hardly Convincing

 Bellini: La Sonnambula, Liceu’s Orchestra and Chorus, Daniel Oren (conductor), Barcelona’s Liceu, 1 & 2.2.2014 (JMI)   Casts: Amina: Patrizia Ciofi/Annick Massis Elvino: Juan Diego Flórez/Celso Albelo Count Rodolfo: Nicola Ulivieri/Michele Pertusi Lisa: Eleonora Buratto/Sabina Puértolas Teresa: Gemma Coma-Alabert Alessio: Alex Sanmartí Notary: Jordi Casanova Production: Wiener Staatsoper and Royal Opera House Covent Garden Direction: … Read more