Cristina Gallardo-Domas "Final Scene" Suor Angelica

Hamburg, 1996

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Music

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• Onegin65
• Opera
• Puccini
• Sour
• Angelica
• Cristina
• Gallado-Domas

[ezayi]

This happens normally in Germany. A lot of so called "regiesseur" that want to be different and what actually comes out is a PIECE OF SHIT that nobody really likes and they say it´s a success. I wonder for who?. They kill the composer´s dramatic intention, german conductors normally don´t understand italian music and come with the bullshit about the orchestra and what really happens is that they can´t do it better, etc.

[Azzenstudent]

Interesting production! Apparently she slit her wrists with toxic herbs. Brava Gallardo-Domas! She succeeds when even the on-stage bedlam fails to persuade.

[ezayi]

@regisseurdutch You´ll have to ask 99% of people that go to theaters the same question. Just go to the theaters and look. Mostly nonsense shit!. And... if you don´t like my comment, (with that nickname I guess you´re a regisseur or try to be), you can kiss my ass!!!

[regisseurdutch]

@ezayi TELL ME? HOW MANY OPERAS HAVE YOU DIRECTED?

[operafan65]

What a terrible idea this production is. They managed to turn one of the most gripping and pitiable scenes in opera into a circus act of prancing nuns dressed in white. And, as others said, the director apparently didn't have time to read the libretto, so he didn't realize she used the plants she had so loved to grow over her years in the nunnery to kill herself. That is not idle symbolism. It helps define Angelica's character. But, I guess the important point is all the glass and steel decor.

[szioffcix]

brava!

[ElisabettaVS]

@ezayi Antonio Pappano.

[ezayi]

@ElisabettaVS Ok... name one famous italian conductor doing Wagner... and, when I commented, I meant world famous conductors, not only italians, that are capable of doing all styles of music. I know only Böhm, which did mostly german repertoire. The other one was Karajan, which was much more versatile. The school doesn´t have anything to do with it. It´s the understanding of music and style.

[ElisabettaVS]

@ezayi Sorry, I still disagree with that. Surely, it is not about "Germans" conducting Italian stuff in the wrong way, but it is about the German school of conducting. Same goes for the Italian school. Differences-which you can hear in Wagner- if someone, not knowing the "German school" tries Wagner - he/she fails.

[ezayi]

@ElisabettaVS Sorry my dear... but that´s the truth. There have to be good ones, but those aren´t famous. Probably because they´re far better than the "famous ones", in other words, the ones that are well known in Germany. Again, sorry if you don´t like the tone in that... but its the truth.

[ElisabettaVS]

@ezayi You just go on like "Germans cannot do this" which I don't like. I really don't like the tone in that... Sorry.

[ezayi]

@ElisabettaVS The only ones that I know, are the famous one. Germans conductors are too "square" conducting italian music and don´t understand the tradition and style. The reality is, that many "non german" conductors have done german music and became and are VERY famous in the world for doing EVERY opera from all styles. I don´t know any german besides Karakan which was austrian and I didn´t like him doing it neither. He killed singers with his tempis.