Operas that includes Shakespeare‘s most well-known star-crossed lovers are distinguished on native levels this yr with an ecstatically acquired Gounod revival on the Met adopted this month by Teatro Nuovo’s revival of Bellini‘s I Capuleti e i Montecchi in its first NYC efficiency in years.
Chris’s Cache follows up its Gounod R&J installment with a broadly diversified quintet of extra Romeos and Juliets: Capuleti pairing Adriana Maliponte and Agnes Baltsa; Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Matthew Polenzani, and Julian Robbins performing Berlioz‘s dramatic symphony; Zandonai‘s uncommon Giulietta e Romeo; A Village Romeo and Juliet by Delius; and Antonio Pappano conducting Nadine Sierra and Alek Schrader in Bernstein‘s West Facet Story.
We’re lucky to have the Capuleti preserved because it was Maliponte’s solely efficiency of the opera in Vienna. Inexplicably, Bellini’s opera has but to be given by the Met, however it has been mounted by New York Metropolis Opera and was a favourite of native live performance opera organizations, the American Opera Society and Opera Orchestra of New York.
James Levine got here late to loving Hunt Lieberson in The Nice Gatsby, however he used her in Boston in at present’s Berlioz in addition to within the Mahler Third of which I even have a broadcast. The yr earlier than Levine’s BSO Roméo, I heard a very memorable efficiency of Berlioz, additionally with Polenzani, on the New York Philharmonic with Lorin Maazel conducting an excellent José van Dam as Frère Laurent. Not content material with Prokofiev‘s magnificent Romeo, the Paris Opéra ballet invited Sasha Waltz to choreograph the Berlioz which I noticed on the Bastille in 2007.
Romeo’s aria “Giulietta! Son io!” from the Zandonai is typically programmed by tenors, however in any other case Giulietta isn’t usually executed, neither is the Delius, although New York Metropolis Opera carried out it seven occasions between 1973 and 1975 in a manufacturing by Frank Corsaro.
Bernstein’s personal misbegotten recording of West Facet Story recommended that opera singers won’t be the very best casting thought for Maria and Tony, however Pappano’s pair make a greater case for it. Discover future Carmen Aigul Akhmetshina in a small supporting position.
An extra Capuleti with Cecilia Gasdia and Tatiana Troyanos can nonetheless be loved right here, as can Ann Hallenberg and Franco Fagioli in Zingarelli‘s Giulietta e Romeo.
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Giulietta: Adriana Maliponte
Romeo: Agnes Baltsa
Tebaldo: Yordi Ramiro
Capellio: Kurt Rydl
Lorenzo: Peter Wimberger
Conductor: Piero Bellugi
Vienna Staatsoper
27 Could 1982
In-house Recording
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Matthew Polenzani
Frère Laurent: Julien Robbins
Tanglewood Competition Refrain
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: James Levine
Symphony Corridor, Boston
4 December 2004
Broadcast
Zandonai: Giulietta e Romeo
Giulietta: Edy Amedeo
Romeo: Ferrando Ferrari
Gregorio/Il Cantatore: Mario Carlin
Banditore/Sansone/Bernabo: Giovanni Foiani
Tebaldo: Guido Mazzini
Groot Omroepkoor
Omroeporkest
Conductor: Fulvio Vernizzi
AVRO Hilversum
1964
Broadcast
Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet
Vrenchen: Joan Rodgers
Sali: Timothy Robinson
Darkish Fiddler: William Shimell
Manz: Stephen Roberts
Marti: Nathaniel Webster
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor: Vernon Handley
München, Philharmonie im Gasteig
15 February 2004
Broadcast
Bernstein: West Facet Story
Maria: Nadine Sierra
Anita: Tia Architto
Rosalia: Aigul Akhmetshina
Consuelo: Francesca Calò
Francisca: Marta Vulpi
Tony: Alek Shrader
Riff: Mark Stone
Bernardo: Andrea D’Amelio
Motion: Andrea Giovannini
Child John/A-rab/Snowboy/Large Deal/Diesel: Kris Belligh
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Parco della Musica, Rome
12 October 2018
Broadcast
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