I Puritani - Ildebrando D'Arcangelo - Cinta di fiori

Teatro Comunale
Direttore - Michele Mariotti
Regia - Per'Alli
Arturo - Juan Diego Florez
Elvira - Nino Machaidze
Giorgio Valton - Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Riccardo Forth - Gabriele Viviani
Bologna 2009

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Music

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• Teatro
• Comunale
• Direttore
• Michele
• Mariotti
• Regia
• Per'Alli
• Arturo
• Juan
• Diego
• Florez
• Elvira
• Nino
• Machaidze
• Giorgio
• Valton
• Ildebrando
• D'Arcangelo
• Riccardo
• Forth
• Gabriele
• Viviani
• Bologna
• 2009

[marcelmegaman]

No one will understand why the audience reacted in such an unemotional manner. Normally, the Italians are known to give very strong feedback, both positive and negative. I can only imagine that the low note at the end is a somewhat unusual finish for a great aria and it leaves those unfamiliar with the details of this piece sort of puzzled when it suddenly ends...

[bobzeschin]

@rossinilove Venti scusi! I heard the announcement on KUSC-FM and tuned out as soon as I didn't hear Don Giovanni mentioned. (I'd still rather hear him as the Don, but that production ruffled almost as many feathers as the Freyer Ring, and I should have known they wouldn't be bringing it back that soon.)

[rossinilove]

@bobzeschin He's singing Guglielmo. Check out the LA Opera website.

[MrJim195]

I love this scene and D'Arcangelo, but if I may be critical I prefer when the Puritans look more like people caught up in a civil war. Also, I can barely hear the final A-flat. Is he weak down there, or was it meant to be pianissimo? Or the mike?

[bobzeschin]

@rossinilove 2011-12 LAO season was announced last week and neither Don Giovanni nor Ildebrando was anywhere in sight. Is he skedded (as we say here in Tinseltown) anywhere else in the USA in the foreseeable future?

[bobzeschin]

@rossinilove Thanks for the advance notice.  Do you know who's singing Don Ottavio? I was far more impressed with Charles Castronovo than Erwin Schrott the last time around. (The only other time I saw Don O. steal the show from Don G. he was sung by Fritz Wunderlich.)

[rossinilove]

@bobzeschin He will be singing Don Giovanni next season in LA.

[trendyyy]

outstanding!!!

Arcangelo is probably the best bariton today.

[bobzeschin]

I stand corrected. I just watched the video of the curtain calls at the end of this performance, and everybody got the ovations and bravi they deserved.  Perhaps in Bologna they save all their enthusiasm for the end of the evening. Signor D;Arcangelo has the warmest, most luscious voice I've heard in ages. I hope he comes to the Los Angeles Opera soon!

[trendyyy]

not too many people understand clasic music , they don t make the difference between the good soloists, in the audience are lots of goofies :)))