Les follies bergere, Rossellini, Ravel and Puccini

Enrique Sacau

martes, 10 de abril de 2007

Les follies bergere, Rossellini, Ravel and Puccini

London, viernes, 30 de marzo de 2007.

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Maurice Ravel, L’Heure Espagnole. Giacomo Puccini, Gianni Schicchi. Richard Jones, director. John Macfarlane, set designs. Nicky Gillibrand, costume. Mimi Jordan Sherin, lighting. Lucy Burge, choreography. Paul Kieve, illusionist. Bonaventura Bottone (Torquemada), Christopher Maltman (Ramiro), Christine Rice (Concepcion), Yann Beuron (Gonzalve), Andrew Shore (Don Inigo Gomez), Bob Smith (Buoso Donati), Gwynne Howell (Simone), Elena Zilio (Zita), Saimir Pirgu (Rinuccio), Betto di Signa (Jeremy White), Christopher Purves (Marco), Marie McLaughlin (La Ciesca), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Gherardo), Joan Rodgers (Nella), Jesús Duque (Gherardino), Bryn Terfel (Gianni Schicchi), Dina Kuznetsova (Lauretta), Henry Waddington (Maestro Spinelloccio), Enrico Fissore (Ser Amantio di Nicolao), Nicholas Garrett (Pinellino), Paul Goodwin-Groen (Guccio). The Royal Opera House Orchestra. Antonio Pappano, conductor

A double bill consisting of Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi might seem a bit odd. It might be. But director Richard Jones found the way around it by not trying to link the two operas together. Directors faced with the challenge of staging two operas in one evening, very often come up with very strange ideas on how the two pieces work well together. Also very often, they fail. It is therefore refreshing to see how Jones simply staged these two farces as individual pieces. The director and his excellent team set out to the task of making us laugh without forgetting that behind every comedy there is profound sadness. Both with Ravel and Puccini, they succeeded indeed. L’Heure Espagnole was staged in a rather magical twentieth-century orlogerie, where a poet dressed in red, a dull banker and the owner of the shop fail…

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