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United KingdomPuccini, Tosca: Soloists, Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 8.2.2022. (JPr)
Production:
Director – Jonathan Kent
Revival Director – Lucy Bradley
Designer – Paul Brown
Lighting designer – Mark Henderson
Chorus director – William Spaulding
Cast:
Floria Tosca – Angela Gheorghiu
Mario Cavaradossi – Stefan Pop
Baron Scarpia – Michael Volle
Angelotti – Chuma Sijeqa
Spoletta – Aled Hall
Sacristan – Alexander Köpeczi
Sciarrone – Simon Wilding
Gaoler – John Morrissey
Shepherd boy – Alfie Davis
Perhaps because this was my first live opera of 2022 after an extended musical break at Christmas and with my critical faculties – for what they are worth – somewhat refreshed, I found myself enormously enjoying this opening night of the final performances of an extended tenth revival of Jonathan Kent’s 2006 Tosca production. I have seen Puccini’s ‘s
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United KingdomPuccini, La bohème: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Evelino Pidò (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 25.1.2024. (JPr)
La bohème was Puccini’s fourth opera for the stage; first put on in Turin in 1896, it was not an instant hit with the critics. The next year the Carl Rosa Company presented it in English at Manchester, and a few months later at Covent Garden. On 30 June 1899 it was sung there in Italian and thus became a staple of the repertory. That production basically survived two world wars until John Copley’s much-fêted and oft-revived staging in 1974 which was finally replaced by Richard Jones’s one in September 2017. I was in the opera house for its premiere and although I saw this La bohème in the cinema in 2022, this was the first time I had been back to Covent Garden to see it since then. Indeed, it had been about eighteen months since, for various reasons, I had sat and watched anything at Covent Garden. I was g
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- duration:4'45"
- year:2010
- instrumentation:fixed media (2 kanal soundtrack)
- Recording: Sub Rosa portrait cd "Fremdkörper"
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