WARNING: If you are not an opera fan, I’m going to let rip, so jump to the pictures at the end.
See also Nina Mishkin’s post BEL CANTO AT THE MET.
On Tuesday we saw the encore of the Live from the MET performance of Rossini’s Donna del Lago in the cinema. Now Rossini in a problem for me. Fabulous music and delicious arias, but it is all about the vocal gymnastics and not the passions of the humans, except in an absurd and comic way. I tend to end Rossini performances feeling aurally battered and emotionally underfed.
The METs production of Donna del Lago has made me eat my words. It satisfies in every respect. With a faultless cast, who invest every phrase, every note, with the emotion it deserves and no (well, no intentional) comic interludes. This success is in major part due to the director, Paul Curran. He was working…
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You are very kind, thanks so much.
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You’re very welcome! I love opera, too! @v@ ❤
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