Roberto Alagna

Roberto Alagna

PAGLIACCI - Leoncavallo - New York

About 

 

Opéra en 2 actes de Ruggero Leoncavallo

Créé le 21 mai 1892 au Teatro dal Verme à Milan 

 

 

 

Cast - Performing

 

Metropolitan opera New York 

21 janvier 2016

25 janvier 2016

 

Stopped to take over the role of "Des Grieux" in Manon Lescaut

 

 

Production : Sir David McVicar

Set Designer : Rae Smith

Costume Designer : Moritz Junge

Linghts Designer : Paule Constable

Choreographer : Andrew George

Vaudeville Consultant : Emil Wolk

 

Nedda : Barbara Frittoli

Canio : Roberto Alagna

Tonio : George Gagnidze

Silvio : Alexey Lavrov

 

Metropolitan Opéra chor and  orchestra

Conductor : Fabio Luisi

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metropolitan Opera Announcement

 
CAST UPDATE | PAGLIACCI > MANON LESCAUT | Due to a cancellation announced today, The Metropolitan Opera is updating the cast of its current and forthcoming productions. As a consequence, Roberto Alagna is CHANGING HIS AGENDA and will perform - for the first time onstage - the male lead in Puccini's "MANON LESCAUT " for 9 performances from February 12 to March 11, 2016. 
 
In order to prepare the role of Chevalier Des Grieux and this short notice and unanticipated stage debut, he will withdraw from his commitment to sing the role of Canio in the Met’s ongoing production of PAGLIACCI. 
 
Directed by Richard Eyre, this production of Manon Lescaut is a collaboration between the Met and the Baden Baden Festival, where it premiered in 2014. Roberto Alagna will appear alongside Kristine Opolais in the title role, conducted by Fabio Luisi. 

 

 

 

 

Press Review

New York Times - Corinna da Fonseca-Wolheim - 25/01/2016

“Mr. Alagna built up impressive momentum and ardency” 
 
“The audience at The Metropolitan Opera on Thursday clapped at the end of “Vesti la giubba”, a pivotal moment in Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci.” As the cuckolded and heartbroken clown Canio, the tenor Roberto Alagna had invested the aria with self-destructive despair, pushing his muscular voice close to the breaking point. But when applause broke out, he turned with a start and fixed the crowd with a look of blank horror. It was an uncomfortable but powerful moment that snapped into focus this drama about private agonies crammed into the pressure cooker of a performing life. With that one hunted look, Mr. Alagna made the audience complicit in the murderous events that followed. […] In the course of the opera, which Mr. McVicar has garishly and entertainingly studded with vaudeville comedy, Mr. Alagna built up impressive momentum and ardency.”
 
 

Newyorkclassicalreview.com - Eric Simpson

"A great night for tenors in Met’s 'Cav&Pag' - Alagna's Canio is excellent "
 
"Pagliacci is worth the wait. [...] This is a thoroughly charming production, lively and grinning, but growing steadily more tense from its very first bars. Roberto Alagna provides the star power necessary to carry the piece. [...] The closing scene was heart-racing. The last five minutes of this score, in which the building tension of the piece finally comes to a head is among the most thrilling in the repertoire, and the tenor maintained a furious energy even as the tempo sagged. The same was true of much of Alagna’s singing, in fact—“Vesti la giubba” was taken at a similarly stately pace, but the intensity he was able to maintain in his voice, combined with his unhinged dramatic presence, made this rendition superb. It is hardly surprising that Alagna’s Canio should be an excellent one; this is one of the world’s great tenors singing one of the great tenor roles, and one with which he is very familiar."

 

 

 

PAGLIACCI | Additional REVIEWS about Roberto's performance as Canio at The Metropolitan Opera
" Pagliacci soared with the immensely talented tenor Roberto Alagna as the cuckolded clown Canio" (Paul du Quenoy for ConcertoNet - 01/28/2016)
"Roberto Alagna was rock solid as Canio. He sang with fierce muscularity and a bit too much volume at first, but turned in a brilliant “Vesti la giubba” and a terrifying, hate-filled final scene." (Robert Levine for Bachtrack - 01/26/2016)

 

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