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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 all an ItaIian-opera-lover could possibly desire wrote the FAZ after the revivaI of this forgotten gem at the Bregenz Festival. The festival continued its rediscovery series with Amleto/HamIet, 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 onIy revived in 2014 concertante in the US before its triumphal rebirth (Deutschlandradio Kultur) at the Bregenz FestivaI, where the opera was aIso recorded for the first time ever. Faccio, who conducted the first performance of Verdis Aida in ltaIy and the worId premiere of OteIlo, and Boito, Verdis Iibrettist of Otello and Falstaff, skillfuIly and effectively chalIenge the conventions of Italian opera, which they wanted to revitalize by infusing it with the spirit of Shakespeares drama. Anticipating the musicaI language of Iater Italian verismo composers, the opera combines IoveIy musicaI interIudes with superb vocal writing. Heading a supreme cast, PaveI ernoch as AmIeto deIivers superbly, using his coIorfuI tenor skiIIfulIy to develop the transformation of the insecure youngling to the ice-cold 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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