June 24, 2006: Pagliacci in Miscolc

2006-06-24 Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), Miskolc Operafestival

Canio = Daniel Magdal
Nedda = Roxana Briban
Tonio = Oleg Ionese
Silvio = Iordache Basilic
Beppe = Marius Manea

Adrian Morar, conductor


Ruggero Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci

Opera in two acts with prologue in Italian

Canio - Daniel Magdal, Nedda - Roxana Briban (Mariana Colpos?)
Conducted by: Adrian Morar

Directed by: Stefan Neagrau, based on the work of Franco Zeffirelli

The story is set in Calabria , south-Italy, in 1865.



This was a better role for Daniel Magdal, he was great in Vesti la
giubba. Nedda was also wonderful. Beppe was wonderful. Tonio was
good. Silvio was also very good. And I was at tears in the end. All
my sympathy was for Canio.

June 24, 2006: Cavalleria Rusticana in Miscolc

2006-06-24 Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni), Miskolc Operafestival

Santuzza = Sorina Munteanu
Lola = Sidonia Nica
Turiddu = Daniel Magdal
Alfio = Ionut Pascu
Lucia = Adriana Alexandru

Adrian Morar, conductor

7 PM, Grand Theatre

Guest performance of the Bucharest National Opera
Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

Opera in one act in Italian
Libretto - adapted from Giovanni Verga by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
and Guido Menasci

Conducted by: Adrian Morar
Directed by: Cristina Cotescu, based on the work of Franco Zeffirelli

It was really a wonderful Cavalleria Rusticana, no wonder since it
was based on Zeffirelli. Daniel Magdal had trouble with his top
notes, he was not in his best in the O Lola - romance, but he grew
better. Sorina Munteanu was admirable Santuzza, a true mezzo, when
she sang in the soprano area she was still a very good, but I think
I would have loved to hear her as Princess Eboli in Verdi´s Don
Carlo. Alfio was a young and beautiful baritone, a little to light a
voice for the duet with Santuzza. Lola was wonderful. And Lucia was
also good.

June 24, 2005: Aida in Parma

2005-06-24 Aida (Verdi), Teatro Regio Parma

Il re d’Egitto = Enrico Turco
Amneris = Luciana D’Intino
Aida = Daniela Dessí
Radamès = Fabio Armiliato
Ramfis = Mario Lupero
Amonasro = Juan Pons
Una sacerdotessa = Tiziana Tramonti
Un messaggero = Carlo Bosi


Maestro concertatore e direttore
BRUNO BARTOLETTI

Regia
ALBERTO FASSINI

Scene e Costumi
MAURO CAROSI

Coreografia
MICHA VAN HOECKE

Maestro del coro
MARTINO FAGGIANI

ORCHESTRA E CORO DEL TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA

A wonderful Aida!!!!

Luciana D'Intino is a wonderful Amneris, very charismatic and a strong voiced woman, a great actress, you feel that this is a real person. Daniela was a superb Aida. Fabio Armiliato was a great Radames, even though his voice seems a bit rough and not quite the same quality as Daniela Dessi. Juan Pons is a great Amonasro although he is no longer quite in his prime but he acts very efficiently and is still a great baritone master. Ramfis and the King was sung well enough and did their job. I found this production more attractive than the one in Verona, the ballet was good (I might even say that I liked it). So; a great operatic night in Parma!!

Got a bit sick the day after, almost had to stay another night at Hotel Astoria Executive (I liked this opera) but in the end I managed to take the train back to Verona.

June 24, 1997: Mefistofele in Vienna

1997-06-24 Mefistofele (Boito), Wiener Staatsoper

Mefistofele = Egils Silins*
Faust = Keith Ikaia-Purdy
Margherita/Elena = Michele Crider*
Marta/Pantalis = Nelly Boschkowa
Wagner/Nerèo = Ruben Broitman

Michael Halász, conductor

Dienstag, 24. Juni 1997 STAATSOPER
6. Aufführung in dieser Inszenierung

Mefistofele
Oper in einem Prolog,
vier Akten und
einem Epilog
Text und Musik Arrigo Boito

Szenische Einrichtung nach der
Regie und Ausstattung vonPier'Alli
Koproduktion mit dem Teotro alla Scala, Milano

Musikalische Leitung Michael Halász
SpielleitungLorenza Cantini
Diana Kienast
ChoreographieAntonella Agati
ChoreinstudierungDietrich D. Gerpheide

Mefistofele Egils Silins*
Margherita/Elena Michele Crider*

Himmlische Heerscharen -Chorus Mysticus -Cherubim Büßerinnen -landmänner -Bürger -Hexen Nymphen -Sirenen -Koryphäen -Krieger

Knabenchor Bratislava
Leitung Magdalena Rovnáková
Bühnenorchester
der Österreichischen Bundestheater

*Rollendebüt an der
Wiener Stoatsoper

New Opera for me. But the composer was a known name Arrigo Boito, one of Verdi's librettists. The story is from Goethe's Faust, in the world of opera most known as Gounod's FAUST.

But Boito is making another story more complex taking more from the novel by Goethe. It has a prologue and a epilogue. And so it is more confusing, but has some glorious music.