47th Opera Season Tradition of the Pergolesi Theatre in Jesi (from 4 October to 30 November 2014)

The Subsidiary, December 5, 2014
OPERA / Co-productions are good for lyrical: “Hoffmann” on tour
Giuseppe Pennisi

In recent years the ‘great work’ of Offenbach has had increasing success. This season they are comparing two different issues that have a common characteristic: to be co-produced with French theaters. The first debuted in Rouen, and circuita until the end of the year in the theaters of Lombardy and the Marches. (…) It ‘a clever idea that enables you to synergies and to split the production costs of most theaters. In the specific case of Les Contes also it has the advantage of giving the whole French patina (spicy if melancholy) that is often missed in the richest productions of opera foundations. Often, the real innovation is in the ‘tradition’ theaters that some critics still consider ‘children of a lesser God’. (…) The production also aims to highlight the talent of the winners of the 65th Competition for young opera singers in Europe. Directed by Frédéric Roel, currently artistic director and general Opéra de Rouen, prune the apparatus of any tinsel typical of ” manned comique “. (…) The whole company is young. The master conductor Christian Capocaccia moves deftly and knows how to make good the taste more bitter than sweet labor. (…) As a big-time women’s voices, especially the young Larissa Alice Wissel that in Jesi has played the role of Antonia. (…)

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