October 19, 2013: Don Carlo in Vienna

2013-10-19 Don Carlo (Giuseppe Verdi), Wiener Staatsoper

Philipp II = Ferruccio Furlanetto
Don Carlo = Ramón Vargas
Rodrigo = Ludovic Tézier
Elisabeth von Valois = Tamar Iveri
Prinzessin Eboli = Violeta Urmana
Großinquisitor = Eric Halfvarson
Mönch = Dan Paul Dumitrescu
Tebaldo = Ileana Tonca
Lerma = Xiahou Jinxu
Herold = Xiahou Jinxu
Stimme vom Himmel = Valentina Nafornita

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Daniele Abbado | Regie
Graziano Gregori | Bühnenkonzeption
Angelo Linzalata | Bühne
Carla Teti | Kostüme
Alessandro Carletti | Licht
Boris Stetka | Regiemitarbeit
Simona Bucci | Choreographie

DON CARLO (ITAL.)
Giuseppe Verdi
19. Oktober 2013
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Did I like the production? Well, it was OK but nothing new and interesting. The stage was just like how do we move this walls around. The effect was nothing really. Costumes good but not amazing. Modern kind of historic. It was the majesty of Ferruccio Furlanetto, the vulnerality of Ramon Vargas, the vigor of Ludovic Tezier, the sweetness of Tamar Iveri, the passion of Violeta Urmana, these singers made the opera real.


Xiahou Jinxu as Lerma/Herold was just wonderful!! A wonderful voice, a skilful presention and a singer for the future. Loved him!!! Of course I adored Ramon Vargas who is a great singer and actor. I found the interaction between Vargas and Ludovic Tezier as Don Carlo and Rodrigo, just perfect. Tezier was a really wonderful Rodrigo. The interaction between Ferrucio Furlanetto and Tamar Iveri as Fillip II and Elisabeth was another high. Vargas as Iveri also very good. I really liked Violeta Urmana and her Eboli.

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October 19, 2007: Elektra in Vienna

2007-10-19 Elektra (R.Strauss), Wiener Staatsoper

Klytämnestra = Agnes Baltsa
Elektra = Deborah Polaski
Chrysothemis = Silvana Dussmann
Aegisth = Michael Roider
Orest = Ain Anger
Pfleger des Orest = Wolfgang Bankl*
Vertraute = Zsuzsanna Szabó
Schleppträgerin = Daniela Denschlag*
junger Diener = Herwig Pecoraro
alter Diener = Marcus Pelz
Aufseherin = Waltraud Winsauer
1. Magd = Janina Baechle*
2. Magd = Zoryana Kushpler*
3. Magd = Sophie Marilley*
4. Magd = Ǻsa Elmgren
5. Magd = Caroline Wenborne

Michael Boder, conductor

Only Agnes Baltsa could make me see this opera and only AGNES BALTSA made it worth the time

Boring, boring, boring.... But Agnes Baltsa is GREAT. This opera needs so much, it is dark and so much monologue, beautiful music. Elektra is sung by Deborah Polaski, her voice is sometime too weak, the orchestra is heavy, and then where is the excitement the intense feeling, I did not feel it. Her sister is sung by Silvana Dussmann, and her we have a singer and actress who can transmit feelings. But it is Elektra who is supposed to outshine everybody else. Even the brother Orest sung by Ain Anger is more exciting and Aigist too (Michael Roider).

Agnes Baltsa as Klytämnestra is in a league of her own. She owns the stage, she is interesting, you see how this woman is totally crazy in her misunderstanding of it all.

But a great Elektra performance needs an Elektra who is shaking your world, here I did not find that. That Chrysothemis would outshine Elektra, what a concept...

But Klytämnestra is QUEEN!!!!!!! Hail, Agnes Baltsa! The Greek mezzo... DIVA

19. Oktober 2007



ELEKTRA
(51. Aufführung in dieser Inszenierung)

Musikalische Leitung: Michael Boder
nach einer Inszenierung von: Harry Kupfer
Bühnenbild: Hans Schavernoch
Kostüme: Reinhard Heinrich
Chorleitung: Janko Kastelic


(* Rollendebüt an der Wiener Staatsoper)

Beginn: 20.00

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October 19, 1998: Fedora in Vienna

1998-10-19 Fedora (Giordano), Wiener Staatsoper

Fedora Romazoff = Agnes Baltsa
Loris Ipanoff = José Cura
Olga Sukarew = Ildiko Raimondi
De Siriex = Georg Tichy
Dimitri/Savoyarde = Svetlana Serdar
Baron Rouvel = Peter Jelosits
Cirillo = Aik Martirosyan
Dr. Boroff = Yu Chen
Grech = Rudolf Mazzola
Dr. Lorek = Marcus Pelz
Nicola = Peter Tuff
Sergio = Hakki Özpinar
Michele = Josef Stangl
Boleslao Lazinski = Paul Harris
Ivan = Nicholaas van Huyssteen

Anton Guadagno, conductor

Fedora in Vienna

A good Choice: Taking the night to Vienna, having bought ticket already. I could get right to the opera.

This time, the best seat in the house, ATS 2000 so 9.33 my train left from Zurich, and 18.45 I was in Vienna.
19.05 in the Vienna State Opera.
Got my splendid ticket, and bought a program, sat down in my seat after having to wait a long time at the stairs.
What kind of Fedora did I get:
The opera started at 2000, and lasted till 2230.
At 23.30 my train left from Vienna.

The Tenor (Jose Cura) was much improved, my favorite Mezzo (Agnes Baltsa) was divine.
His Amor ti vieta, and Vedi io piango was great.
The 3rd act, fantastic.(Better than in 1997)
Very sexy: Baltsa & Cura.

AND I COULD SEE EVERYTHING


Montag, 19. Oktober 1998 STAATSOPER.
30. Aufführung in dieser Inszenierung
Koproduktion mit den Bregenzer Festspielen

Fedora
Oper in 3 Akten nach Victorien Sardou
von Arturo Colautti
Musik Umberto Giordano

Dirigent Anton Guadagno
Inszenierung Jonathan Miller
Ausstattung Tobias Hoheisel
Lichtgestaltung Paul Pyant
Choreinstudierung Ernst Dunshirn



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