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Rigoletto – opera concertante – in Munich




 

The gorgeouse tenor Joseph Calleja saved the Rigoletto performance with his beautiful singing of the tenor role as the Duke of Mantova.

Münchener Festspiele 2013.

MUNICH: Giuseppe Verdi´s opera Rigoletto is at the Festspiele program this summer in Munich. With a gorgeouse Joseph Calleja as the Duke of Mantova in a tasteless beige outfit.

Review by Henning Høholt

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Rigoletto is advertised as an opera. To my experience I notice it as a concertversion of an opera, with 1 white curtatin, who could be moved around and decorated, in addition to a sliding chair section, which could be split in two, on which the singers was sitting, laying and using it for everything else. Daily wear, except that for the very least scene they dress up Rigoletto and Gilda in evening galla outfit, I dont understand why

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. Wasn´t the daily outfit, and the “handsome” beige lumber jacket,  used  for the Duke, good enough? Well they let the Duke change outfit to a handsome, colourful, morning coat before he left somewhere vehind the useful white curtain to meet Gilda.

However, This production of Rigoletto fits very well in to the bad taste line, together with the scandalouse, bad taste, new Simone Boccanegra, reviewed here in Kulturkompasset a few days a go. Don´t the operachief think about the renommé for the house? What will the future be if productions continues in this direction?

How will the future be for the Münchener Festspiele? Does the audience arrive for this kind of shows, or are they blind?

When a performance is announced as an opera, then the audience is expecting to see something which is looking like the advertised opera. They expect to see costumes, scenography that has something to do with with they have read about and bought expensive tickets for.

Rigoletto decoreation, here with Franco Vasallo, who didn´t sing in the reviewed performance.Foto Wilfried Hösl

They presented the gorgeouse tenor Joseph Calleja, who saved it all musically, he has an extraordinary beautiful tenor, who is perfect for this role, he was a big success. The second act was extraordinary for him, and also partly for Gilda, Patricia Petitbon, who did her job, but didn´t seem to look well on stage, and for Rigoletto – Andrzej Dobber. Who not was the Rigoletto advertised in advance. The same was the matter with the conductor, Friedrich Halder. Who in some parts, the opening and later, was speeding up the tempo too much, so it sometimes nearly not was possible to catsch the text from the singers and choire. One famous choire part sounded like bla bla blabla, blabla blabla bla bla  blablablabla bla bla bla bla. Guess which one? – The prize winner will get a free walking tour in the English Garden! – In daily wear
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The only talented idea from the regisseur was to to let Nadia Krasteva play both roles as Maddalena and as Giovanna, the maid by Gilda. She did a good job. 

Rigoletto: ensemble, chorus and supernumeraries
About Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi: 
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo’s play Le Roi s’amuse opera in three acts, (4 pictures). 
The world premiere of the first opera of Verdi’s legendary “trilogia Popolare” on Venice’s Teatro La Fenice was preceded by a meticulous struggle with the censorship. But was Victor Hugo’s story about the cynical hedonism of an aristocrat since 1832, when the Paris premiere promptly followed by a ban, Europe a hot iron. Verdi was less interested in government criticism, rather than the tragedy of his existence überworfenen court jester. The deformed entertainer of women consuming their male ticks all the sarcasm and believes it to remain unscathed by his public actions, if only he neatly separates it from his private fortune. But when away his life in protective custody held by the daughter follows her own desire, she becomes the victim of his double life. A lone, bejammernswerter clown?
“An immoral petty bourgeois,” says director Árpád Schilling, “dreams of innocence. A husband who is mourning his wife and filled with vengeance. A great actor, the success is more important than his own daughter. The fool of a noble Lords that his luck has cheated. Verdi is what Shakespeare can. He can tell a story so that it trembles us ” .  Sung in Italian with German surtitles New production
Event

Munich Opera Festival 2013
Wednesday 17 July 2013
National Theatre
Prices L: 163/142/117/91/64/39/15/11
sold out

Cast

Conductor Friedrich Halder 
staging Árpád Schilling 
stage and costumes Márton Ágh 
light Christian Kass 
dramaturgy Miron Hakenbeck 
choir position Fagone 

Il Duca di Mantova Joseph Calleja 
Rigoletto Andrezej Dobber
Gilda Patricia Petibon 
Sparafucile + Monterone Dimitry Ivashchenko 
Maddalena + Giovanna Nadia Krasteva 
Marullo Tim Kuypers 
Borsa Matteo Francesco Petrozzi 
Il Conte di Ceprano Christian Rieger 
La Contessa di Ceprano Iulia Maria Dan 
Usciere Goran Juric 
Poggio della Duchessa Yulia Sokolik

Bavarian State Orchestra The 
Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera 

Please read our review of Simone Boccanegra at: http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2013/07/scandalouse-simone-boccanegra-in-munich-but-wonderful-singers-and-orchestra/

Do also read our review from Joseph Calleja concert lately at Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris. http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2013/01/calleja-opera-arias-with-chaslin/

 


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