Giusto cielo!

Enrique Sacau

viernes, 21 de enero de 2011

London, sábado, 4 de diciembre de 2010.

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur. David McVicar, Director. Charles Edwards, Set designs. Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Costume designs. Adam Silverman, Lighting design. Andrew George, Choreography and movement. Alessandro Corbelli (Michonnet), Iain Paton (Poisson), David Soar (Quinault), Janis Kelly (Mademoiselle Jouvenot), Sarah Castle (Mademoiselle Dangeville), Maurizio Muraro (Prince de Bouillon), Bonaventura Bottone (Abbé de Chazeuil), Angela Gheorghiu (Adriana Lecouvreur), Jonas Kaufmann (Maurizio), Olga Borodina (Princesse de Bouillon), Abramo Ciullo (Major-Domo), Keiko Hewitt-Teale (Chambermaid), Barbara Rhodes (Mademoiselle Duclos), Kenneth Bryers (Pantalone). Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Renato Balsadonna, Chorus director. Mark Elder, Conductor

As starry casts go, the one assembled by the Royal Opera for their new production of Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (signed by David McVicar) is difficult to match: Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Olga Borodina and Alessandro Corbelli with Mark Elder conducting. The sheer brilliance of this list begs two questions. One the one hand, does Cilea’s rather dull opera deserve such a display of operatic stardust? No sir – one doesn’t need to waste the talent of the above with this bad libretto and not much better music which has been justly confined to the list of famous-thanks-to-a-couple-of-really-good-moments-yet-hardly-ever-performed operas. On the other, would one be able to put up with Adriana were it not precisely for all the stardust? Absolutely not – the idea of an Adriana evening with, say, Micaela Carosi, José Cura,…

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