The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: March 2003
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Due to a scheduling mishap, La Cenerentola and Angelika Kirchschlager’s recital of Lieder von Franz Schubert on one evening. The opera started at 5pm and ended at 8:15pm, the recital began at 8pm but was only 5 minutes away by taxi. Nonetheless, the first half of the Lieder were missed. Straining to listen in the…
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This evening's performance of Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Bayerische Staatsoper seemed to be fraught with various issues. Petia Petrova, the mezzo set to sing the title role, was indisposed, and Anna Caterina Antonacci sang in her stead. Baritone Martin Gantner had hurt his foot recently, and was unable to run about as the choreography…
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The Ides of March performance of Verdi’s Aida had a stunningly hideous staging. This production premiered the 19. January 1996, and was acclaimed by critics as "striking." John Fiore conducted adequately, the orchestra was together with the singers for the most part. There were horns playing onstage at one point, and they did not have…
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The Bayeriche Staatsoper's production of Don Giovanni had excellent singers but a disappointing staging. Thus far, all the productions of Mozart operas there have been fairly ugly visually, although the production teams have all been different. Ivor Bolton's conducting was not impressive, the orchestra was not exactly together during the overture, and the singers and…
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