in Early Music Today (Sep, 2013)
It’s sad that one of Vivaldi’s finest operas has been so diminished here by Pierre Audi’s monochrome, miserablist stage direction. Costumes, sets and lighting are restricted to shades of grey and Alcina’s enchanted isle is represented by a few outsize chairs and tables or, in Act 3, a grimy brick wall. Worse, Audi keeps most of the singers onstage (despite the libretto) and has them enact arch tableaux during the arias—a ploy that, if initially intriguing, has become a pointless distraction by Act 3, as the cast stagger around like a zombie mime troupe. The original opera ends happily, with Orlando’s reason restored; here, still demented, he skips a ‘dance of …
Vivaldi : Orlando Furioso. Lemieux, Spinosi.
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Orlando furioso, RV 728
Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano)
Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano)
Christian Senn (basse)
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (mezzo-soprano)
Philippe Jaroussky (contreténor)
Veronica Cangemi (soprano)
Kristina Hammarström (mezzo-soprano)
Ensemble Matheus
Jean-Christophe Spinosi
36,90€
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