Nedda = Svetla Vassileva
Canio = José Cura
Tonio = Alberto Mastromarino
Beppe = Cristiano Olivieri
Silvio = Marco Di Felice
Lü Jia, conductor
Pagliacci
by
Ruggero Leoncavallo -P-
Arena
14 July 2006 at 21.15
Principal Conductor Lü Jia
Director Gilbert Deflo
Scenographer William Orlandi
Costume Designer William Orlandi
With José Cura as Canio, Svetla Vassileva as Nedda, Alberto
Mastromarino as Tonio, Cristiano Olivieri as Beppe & Marco Di Felice
as Silvio, Pagliacci was a great success. José Cura and Alberto
Mastromarino are experts as Canio and Tonio, they can do nothing wrong
in these roles. Svetla Vassileva was perfect as Nedda. Cristiano
Olivieri was wonderful as Beppe. And of course Marco di Felice was a
luxury Silvio.
Arena di Verona is huge, the stage is very big and it is not easy to
be a singer in the arena. And it is all outdoor. There is always the
temptation to fill the whole stage. In this production of CAV/PAG it
was the chorus that had the role to fill the stage. Strange as it seem
it the Italian chorus seemed to have trouble with the Italian text.
Maybe it was just that the stage was so big and it was a large chorus
to hold it all together.
Jose Cura was maybe tired after singing both Turriddu and Canio, so I
did not see him at the stage door. That was the only disappointment of
the evening.
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