The dust of time

Claudio Vellutini

jueves, 29 de octubre de 2009

Chicago, sábado, 10 de octubre de 2009.

The Civic Opera House. Giacomo Puccini, Tosca. Franco Zeffirelli, original production. Garnett Bruce, stage director. Renzo Mongiardino, set designer. Marcel Escoffier, costume designer. Christine Binder, lighting designer. Deborah Voigt (Tosca), Vladimir Galouzine (Mario Cavaradossi), James Morris (Scarpia), Craig Irvine (Cesare Angelotti), Dale Travis (The Sacristan), John Easterlin (Spoletta), Paul Corona (Sciarrone), Angela Mannino (Shepherd), Sam Handley (Jailer). Orchestra and Chorus of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Chicago Childern’s Choir. Josephine Lee, children’s chorus master. Donald Nally, chorus master. Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

The curtain raised on the 2009-10 season of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and many spectators gasped with amazement at the view of Renzo Mongiardino’s baroque setting wherein the first act of Puccini’s Tosca takes place. The monumental reproduction of the interior of the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome sets the tone for the whole production of the opera, originally conceived by the eighty-six year old Italian director Franco Zeffirelli and revived in Chicago by Garnett Bruce. Taking as a starting point the pervasive presence of the ‘sound’ of Rome in the score, Zeffirelli conceived its visual counterpart by emphasizing the luxury of the architectural spaces in which the opera is set. The effect is indeed spectacular at a first glance, but after a while this overwhelming decorativism creates a sort of saturation that is not…

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