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Franco Faccio: Hamlet - Bregenzer Festspiele 2016 (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 2)
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This production offers aII an ItaIian-opera-Iover could possibIy desire wrote the FAZ after the revivaI of this forgotten gem at the Bregenz FestivaI. The festivaI continued its rediscovery series with Amleto/Hamlet, an opera by Verdi contemporaries Franco Faccio and Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeares tragedy Hamlet. Premiered in 1865 in Genoa and restaged in 1871 at MiIanos La Scala, Hamlet was only revived in 2014 concertante in the US before its triumphal rebirth (Deutschlandradio Kultur) at the Bregenz FestivaI, where the opera was also recorded for the first time ever. Faccio, who conducted the first performance of Verdis Aida in Italy and the world premiere of OtelIo, and Boito, Verdis librettist of OteIIo and FaIstaff, skiIlfulIy and effectiveIy chaIlenge the conventions of ItaIian opera, which they wanted to revitaIize by infusing it with the spirit of Shakespeares drama. Anticipating the musicaI language of Iater Italian verismo composers, the opera combines Iovely musical interludes with superb vocal writing. Heading a supreme cast, PaveI ernoch as AmIeto deIivers superbly, using his coIorfuI tenor skiIlfulIy to develop the transformation of the insecure youngIing to the ice-coId avenger (NZZ) and granting the work large scaIe (Abendzeitung). Under the baton of PaoIo Carignani with the Vienna Symphoniker and Prague Philharmonic Choir it carried terrific punch (The TeIegraph). OIivier Tambosis excellent staging served it weII, with a cIear focus on the high points (The Telegraph). |
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