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Selasa, 24 Agustus 2010

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 23. Aug 2010

Last performance of the current sold-out run of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" at the Salzburger Festspiele 2010, starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala in the title roles. The performance was conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

The updated cast for the full run of performances of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" at the Salzburger Festspiele 2010 is: Anna Netrebko (10., 13., 16., 20. and 23. August), Nino Machaidze (18., 24., 27. and 30. August), Piotr Beczala (10., 13., 20., 23., 27. and 30. August), Stephen Costello (16., 18. and 24. August), Mikhail Petrenko (10., 13., 16., 18., 20., 23. and 24. August), Dimitry Ivashchenko (27. and 30. August), Darren Jeffery, Russell Braun, Cora Burggraaf, Michael Spyres, Susanne Resmark, David Soar, Mathias Hausmann, Andrei Bondarenko, Adrian Strooper.

Charles Gounod • Roméo et Juliette

Opera in five acts

Text by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet

Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 23. Aug 2010

LEADING TEAM

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Bartlett Sher, Stage Director

Michael Yeargan, Set Design

Catherine Zuber, Costume Design

Jennifer Tipton, Lighting

Chase Brock, Choreography

B. H. Barry, Battle scenes

Thomas Lang, Chorus Master

CAST

Anna Netrebko, Juliette

Piotr Beczala, Roméo

Mikhail Petrenko, Frère Laurent

Darren Jeffery, Le Comte Capulet

Russell Braun, Mercutio, friend of Roméo

Cora Burggraaf, Stéphano, page of Roméo

Michael Spyres, Tybalt, nephew of Capulet

Susanne Resmark, Gertrude, nurse of Juliet

David Soar, Le Duc de Vérone

Mathias Hausmann, Le Comte Paris

Andrei Bondarenko, Grégorio

Adrian Strooper, Benvolio, nephew of Montaigu

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

Reports

Herbert attended live this performance and he kindly wrote the following report for the blog:

Anne-Laure was so right when she wrote that the performance was even better than she had expected. I had seen it in 2008 twice, and I didn't think that it would impress me again so much as it did then - but quite on the contrary!

First - the magic of the Felsenreitschule. It is a place and a stage which are absolutely unique. Especially the long stage in front of three rows of arcades which are hewn into natural rock (in former times these were the places for the spectators who attended the performances of the horse riding school; today it is the other way round: we, the audience, look at the arcades, which are illuminated sometimes yellow, sometimes white or even in dark night blue - pure magic).

Second - director Bartlett Sher has developed and improved his production in some details. The costumes are mostly the same - they often remind us of carnival masks in Venice, or of "Zorro, the outlaw", or of pirates.

Juliette's costumes, however, have changed since 2008. In the first part she wears a pink "girlish" long dress with some tinsel on it, and in the second half it is not a white dress any more, but a dark blue one, which fits perfectly to the blue light in the arcades.

It was a brilliant idea to change the balcony scene completely. The balcony is no longer an inclinded plane, elevated by hydraulics, but simply a real balcony outside one of the arcades, which gives Romeo the opportunity to climb up a ladder to Juliette.

Third - the action on stage! There is so much vitality and energy, either on the stage or in the aracdes or even sometimes between the orchestra pit and the first row of the audience. Some reviewers criticized this to be "too much Hollywood"- but I personally like this production more than a "modern", abstract production which wouldn't fit at all into this theatre with its given facts.

Number four - the music! Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts with so much energy and passion, he sings all the lines, he joins in the spontaneous applause for the singers - his activity is awesome.

Most important, of course, the principal performers. Although some of the supporting actors and singers deserve to be mentioned (especially Cora Burggraaf as Stéphano and Mikhail Petrenko with his mighty bass as Frère Laurent), it was Piotr Beczala and above all Anna Netrebko who outshined everything and brought the house down.

I was really surprised by Beczala's development as an actor. I remember him as Alfredo in Berlin, where he concentrated so much on his (superb!) singing that he hardly moved at all. Last year in Baden-Baden, in his role as Count Vaudémont, he was already much better, although there wasn't too much acting demanded... But in the meantime he must have rehearsed quite a lot to become such a convincing and "active" Romeo. This production demands above-average physical activity - he has to run up and down a ramp on the left, he has to climb up and down a ladder, he has to do a lot of fighting and fencing - and on the other hand he has to be a passionate lover and he has to die... Piotr Beczala left nothing to be desired - PLUS his outstanding vocal performance which earned him ovations. An absolutely impressive performance!

All I have said about him - and so much more - must be said about Anna. This year I have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, as Micaela in Carmen, as Manon and now as Juliette. Every time I thought: This is HER role!! One thing is for sure: Anna Netrebko is on top of her vocal and acting abilities in these days. She is convincing and authentic in her roles, and her singing is simply admirable and overwhelming. My favourite moment yesterday was her aria before Juliette decides to drink the "poison". In this scene she was all alone on stage - but she filled the whole house with her voice and her presence and her personality. I think I have rarely experienced her better than in this scene. After the final note, when the audience cheered her for several minutes, a man sitting two places next to me covered his face with his hands and burst into tears; all he could whisper was: "Unbelievable... unbelievable...".

After the performance Anna left the stage door together with Erwin Schrott. She was aglow with happiness, spent some time with her fans and she seemed to me to be satisfied all around.

On Thursday she and her husband will take part in a benefit performance in Salzburg for the victims in Pakistan. The programme is still being drawn up, but it would be fantastic if they appeared for a duet on stage.... (wishful thinking?)!

Photos

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Piotr Beczala (Roméo). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Anna Netrebko (Juliette). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Darren Jeffrey (Le Comte Capulet). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Anna Netrebko (Juliette). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Piotr Beczala (Roméo). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Piotr Beczala (Roméo). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Piotr Beczala (Roméo), Robert Murray (Benvolio), Russell Braun (Mercutio), Cora Burggraaf (Page of Roméo). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Piotr Beczala (Roméo). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Piotr Beczala (Roméo), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 23. August 2010. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Piotr Beczala (Roméo), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 23. August 2010. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Piotr Beczala (Roméo), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 23. August 2010. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko at the stage door, Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 23. August 2010. Photo: Herbert

Selasa, 17 Agustus 2010

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. Aug 2010

Third performance of the current sold-out run of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" at the Salzburger Festspiele 2010, starring Anna Netrebko and Stephen Costello in the title roles who. Costello was initially scheduled to sing only two performances, on 18. and 24. August, but he stepped in to substitute Piotr Beczala who had a cold. The performance was conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Two further performances of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" at the Salzburger Festspiele 2010, with Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala in the title roles, are scheduled on 20. and 23. August 2010.

Charles Gounod • Roméo et Juliette

Opera in five acts

Text by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet

Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. Aug 2010

LEADING TEAM

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Bartlett Sher, Stage Director

Michael Yeargan, Set Design

Catherine Zuber, Costume Design

Jennifer Tipton, Lighting

Chase Brock, Choreography

B. H. Barry, Battle scenes

Thomas Lang, Chorus Master

CAST

Anna Netrebko, Juliette

Stephen Costello, Roméo

Mikhail Petrenko, Frère Laurent

Darren Jeffery, Le Comte Capulet

Russell Braun, Mercutio, friend of Roméo

Cora Burggraaf, Stéphano, page of Roméo

Michael Spyres, Tybalt, nephew of Capulet

Susanne Resmark, Gertrude, nurse of Juliet

David Soar, Le Duc de Vérone

Mathias Hausmann, Le Comte Paris

Andrei Bondarenko, Grégorio

Adrian Strooper, Benvolio, nephew of Montaigu

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

Reports

Violeta attended live this performance and she kindly wrote the following report for the blog:

The performance was really magnificent and no words can describe the emotion of beeing there, watching and listening this incredible performance live. From the very beginning till the end I felt part of the performance. It was like sitting somewhere in a square in Verona and witnessing Romeo & Juliette's tragedy personally from a very close distance.

Anna was adorable Juliette. She sang passionately and played convicingly. Her voice is more beautiful than ever - round, dark, warm and colourfull. Her first aria was like a firework, her Poison aria was electrifying. Stephen Costello's voice was not familiar to me. I liked the way he was giving sence to every word he used to sing but his voice sounded like coming behind a wall, though Felsenreitschule has remarkable acoustic. Nevertheless, his voice seemed to match pretty well Anna's voice and his Romeo seemed to be deeply in love with her Juliette.

Press Reviews Links

[1] Shakespeare qu’on assassine | By Thomas Coubronne | Altamusica 20. August 2010

Photos

Anna Netrebko (Juliette) at the terrace of Felsenreitschule right before the performance, Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Violeta

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Anna Netrebko (Juliette). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Darren Jeffrey (Le Comte Capulet). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Anna Netrebko (Juliette). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Stephen Costello (Roméo), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Stephen Costello (Roméo), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Stephen Costello (Roméo), Mikhail Petrenko (Frère Laurent), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Stephen Costello (Roméo), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Stephen Costello (Roméo), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Violeta

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Stephen Costello (Roméo), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Stephen Costello (Roméo), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Violeta

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Stephen Costello (Roméo), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko at the stage door, Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. August 2010. Photo: Anne

Sabtu, 14 Agustus 2010

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 13. Aug 2010

Second performance of the current sold-out run of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" at the Salzburger Festspiele 2010, starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala in the title roles. The performance was conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Piotr Beczala has cancelled his performance on 16. August due to a cold and he will be replaced by Stephen Costello.

Charles Gounod • Roméo et Juliette

Opera in five acts

Text by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet

Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 13. Aug 2010

LEADING TEAM

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Bartlett Sher, Stage Director

Michael Yeargan, Set Design

Catherine Zuber, Costume Design

Jennifer Tipton, Lighting

Chase Brock, Choreography

B. H. Barry, Battle scenes

Thomas Lang, Chorus Master

CAST

Anna Netrebko, Juliette

Piotr Beczala, Roméo

Mikhail Petrenko, Frère Laurent

Darren Jeffery, Le Comte Capulet

Russell Braun, Mercutio, friend of Roméo

Cora Burggraaf, Stéphano, page of Roméo

Michael Spyres, Tybalt, nephew of Capulet

Susanne Resmark, Gertrude, nurse of Juliet

David Soar, Le Duc de Vérone

Mathias Hausmann, Le Comte Paris

Andrei Bondarenko, Grégorio

Adrian Strooper, Benvolio, nephew of Montaigu

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

Reports

Anne-Laure attended live this performance and she kindly wrote the following report for the blog:

Unlike many critics that I read, I wasn’t really impressed by Nézet-Seguin’s conducting. He likes to put the orchestra on fire and draw huge and voluminous sound for dramatic points, but I thought it lacked some feelings and nuances or colors, which is a shame in this opera, where love must be in the first place, not action. Anyway there was life in this conducting and at the end it’s more than correct for me.

The entire cast was quite good and effective, even if the Felsenreitschule’s scene is very large and some of the voices were somehow lost in this huge hall. But no need to say that the real stars were the two leads, which is normal for this opera. They were clearly above the rest.

Beczala is a very good Romeo, especially when one knows that these were his debuts. But I don’t think that he’s a born Romeo. I have in my ears some of the greatest Romeo of the past and he just can’t fight with them. I was really impressed by his Vaudémont last year, but here I would say that it was “only” a first class performance, but not an extraordinary one. The high register was not so free and the voice seemed less bright than a year ago… well I learned that in fact he was ill and cancelled the next performance, so, that may be an explanation.

Nevertheless, it was an exciting performance. He was also incredible as an actor and very convincing. His Romeo is a little depressed, but young, handsome and the fight scene was really great.

Now for Netrebko, well… maybe I’m partial…

Well, let’s quickly go through “bad points” : she didn’t attempt the high D at Juliette’s entrance (which resulted in an odd result, as all the notes are clearly meant to lead to this one) and the trills were not really there.

OK. That was for the bad points. Now for the rest, I can’t imagine a better Juliette.

When she begins Juliette’s waltz it’s very clear from the first notes that we have here the hugest voice on stage. Round voice, secure, easy on top, big and rich creamy sound. Velvet for the ears. She may not be the most vocal agile Juliette (which I don’t really care, because Juliette is far from being only reduced to a coloratura waltz for me), but with the tempo given by the conductor, she managed easily the tricky things.

In the duets, she was fantastic, caring not to cover her partner and sounding great.

The highlight of the performance was the poison aria. Incredibly intense, powerful and sung with passion. The crowd went mad of course. A huge performance with a singer on top form.

She has also the musical intelligence and sensitivity to feel and understand what the music means (music is a language and a good musician has to understand it rather than only consider it like a succession of notes) and to use it for her interpretation and singing. That’s what makes the music alive and her singing/acting very interesting. Vocal charisma and clever interpretation : that’s what I want when I’m going to the opera and she has both.

By the way, she clearly worked on her French diction. She can still improve (and I guess some people will always criticize her for that now that their mind is made), but she should not fear to be compared with many French singers.

I was expecting a stellar performance so I feared to be disappointed… on the contrary, she was even better that I could have imagined. No need to say that the audience was ecstatic and granted a standing ovation with huge applauses for the singers.

After her glorious Manon in London, she proves again that this French lyric repertoire is fantastic for her. Her Marguerite should be amazing and I’m praying for an album of French arias to keep a testimony of her talent here. The poison aria MUST be recorded !!! It would be a crime otherwise.

What makes me really furious now is that those performances have not been recorded, especially since it’s Netrebko’s last Juliette. DGG should have wait 2 years before recording the DVD since there’s no doubt that this cast is far better than the previous (as much as I love Villazon, he was already in trouble there, and well, let’s say that Machaidze was OK but there is still a world between her and Netrebko). At least a radio or TV broadcast should have been scheduled. What a pity that there won’t be a trace of those fantastic performances ! Sometimes I wonder what runs in classical managers’ mind (especially when I see that some cd or dvd of really poor artistic quality are published when great performances are kept in the dark).

Press Reviews

The October issue of the german opera magazine "Das Opernglas" brings a superb review of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" performance in Salzburg on 13. Aug 2010 written by S. Barnstorf. Here there is an excerpt of the review, google-translated and edited by Herbert:

"Netrebko-Mania", "Netrebko-Show", "Netrebko-Hype"- which additives have not yet been tagged to Anna Netrebko’s name? After her debut as Juliette at the Salzburg Festival in 2010 – which actually should have happened already in 2008 – it can once again been stated: She meets all the high demands and requirements from all sides in every respect. Her voice is not only unique but also matured.

She no longer embodies a simple-minded, innocent and solely merry creature, as Juliette has to be at the beginning of this production of Charles Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette”. Although cheerfully jumping around in a colorful robe, she thereby exposes Bartlett Sher’s traditional production in its simplicity. “Ah! – je veux vivre” is also about the short duration of love, the fading scent of roses and other kinds of highly romantic melancholy.

With this first aria Netrebko already places a highlight in the Felsenreitschule. Warm, dark timbre with a wide range of different vocal shades as well as infinitely supple brilliance in the heights characterizes her voice during the whole performance. But in the aria of the first act she switches perfectly between powerful high expression and precisely differentiated emphasis of each word of the runs in the waltz aria – refining each articulated tone almost by a mysteriously colorful aura. (...) During the romantic homage Netrebko contrives to sing every pitch effortlessly, while still giving the feeling to be able to add something more at any time. This is particularly evident in the fourth act (“Dieu! quel frisson court dans mes veines!”), where she intones by her voice Juliette’s inevitability, fear and certainty so captivating that the public is encouraged to Bravi for the first time during the performance.
Das Opernglas 10/2010

Press Reviews Links

[1] Netrebko and Beczala star in a vibrant reading of Roméo et Juliette | By Moore Parker | The Opera Critic 14. August 2010

Blog Reviews Links

[1] El Blog de Atticus: Festival de Salzburgo 2010 (II). "Romeo y Julieta" (13/08/10)

Photos

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Piotr Beczala (Roméo). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Darren Jeffrey (Le Comte Capulet). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Piotr Beczala (Roméo). Photo: © Hermann, Clärchen & Matthias Baus

Felsenreitschule, Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 13. August 2010. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Piotr Beczala (Roméo), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 13. August 2010. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Piotr Beczala (Roméo), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 13. August 2010. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 13. August 2010. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko at the stage door, Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 13. August 2010. Photo: Anne-Laure

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Roméo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg 16. Aug 2010

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