Mantua The public seems to duplicate his usual enthusiasm
When the opera calls, the public seems to Mantua to duplicate his usual enthusiasm. At least one 'hours before they open their doors Bibiena, last Jan. 11 was already a small crowd of seasoned music lovers to contend for the emotion of the music in a fight to the ticket. Responsible for one season, the Concert on Sunday organized by the Arctic, who knows how to combine quality and hospitality, and merit of proposals which, as ever this year, they're ringing a unique thread of excellence. First round of 2009, the one with the opera gala with the most interesting voices of the emerging landscape has become a wonderful tradition. The underlying theme of race and musician, playing piano Cerritelli SEM provides interpreters and Horde entries of the most picturesque backdrop, the ideal plot of blood and poetry, charm and spark. Also amazing is its strong flexibility with which envelops each individual temperament, it takes the step, emphasizing phrasing and intent. For such a carousel of first fruits, deals with impeccable elegance, publicly gave all his fire. Since the first duet, and that between Foschiatti SANDRA CARLO AGOSTINI - both crowned Award City of Brescia - in the famous "There we darem la mano" from Don Giovanni, the applause has invaded the score. And if the talent of soprano Vicenza established a guarantee, a surprise to the audience that Virgil was the young baritone, capable of binding the sentences into bays wide and smooth, full-bodied yet velvety sound concrete. His "Old robe" from Puccini's La Boheme was one of the absolute height of the afternoon. A special round of applause also ELENA SERRA, which replaced the authority with passion in Korean Jung Sook Choi in "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix" Samson et Dalila by Saint - Saens, and the intense Butterfly - Virginal and inflexible - Yoon Hee Kim of the sublime "One fine day we'll see ...." At the individual personalities and their temperament, overlapped the winning party game of duets, trios and quartets unforgettable: "O soave fanciulla" from La Boheme, where next to Foschiatti showed an interesting JAE Hwan Hwan Jeong Jeong, the inevitable "Bella daughter of love "from Rigoletto with Carlo Agostini called near real-time to replace Lim Bong Suk, victim of a minor traffic accident, the passionate" Mario, Mario "from Tosca, with CHO and Yoon Hee Kim Yoon Jin perfect in outline , in a matter of minutes, the temperature of the work and tormented passion between two lovers. Finally, the trio from Cavalleria Rusticana "You here Santuzza", with Sandra Foschiatti visceral and menacing than ever. To demands for an encore, the singers responded in chorus singing the national anthem, a good year to toast the empty rhetoric has replaced the power of talent.
BERGAMASCHI Elis (The lens Garda Mantua, February 2009)
