Barcelona

Barcelona’s Barbiere in Need of Better Staging

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 Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Liceu Orchestra and Chorus, Giuseppe Finzi (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 16 & 22.9.2014 (JMI)   Casts: Figaro: Mario Cassi/Lionel Lhote Rosina: Annalisa Stroppa/Ketevan Kemoklidze Almaviva: Juan Francisco Gatell/Bogdan Mihai Don Bartolo: Carlos Chausson/José Fardilha Don Basilio: John Relyea/Dmitry Ulyanov Berta: Marisa Martins Fiorello/Officer: Manel Esteve   Production: Liceu … Read more

Rare Russian Opera Performed in Barcelona

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 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitesz:, Liceu’s Orchestra and Chorus, Josep Pons (conductor), Liceu, Barcelona, 16.4.2014 (JMI) New Production: Liceu with Nederlandse Opera and Teatro alla Scala Direction and sets: Dmitri Tcherniakov Costumes: Elena Zaitseva and Dmitri Tcherniakov Lighting: Gleb Filschtinsky Cast: Fevronia. Svetlana Ignatovich Grischka: Dmitry Golovnin Prince Yuri: Eric Halfvarson … Read more

LA Sonnambula : Attractive but Hardly Convincing

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 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