Roberto Alagna

Roberto Alagna

LA TOSCA - PUCCINI - NEW YORK

 

Opera

 

Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini

Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

based on a work of Victorien Sardou 1987

Firs performance  at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900.

 

 

 

Performances

 

Metropolitan Opera

Wednesdnay 2sd of March 2022

Saturday 5th of March 2022

Wednesday 9th of March 2022

saturday 12th of March 2022

 

Monday the 31st of Oktober 2022

Friday the 4th of November 2022

Cast

Aleksandra Kurzak - Tosca

Roberto Alagna - Mario Cavaradossi

Zeljko Lucic - Scarpia 

Geroge Gadgnize - Scarpia (31th Okt. and 4th Nov.)

Patrick Carfizzi - Benoit

 

David McVicar - Production

John Macfarlane - Set and costume designer

 

Yannick Nezet-Seguin - Conductor

Chorus and Orchestra Metropolitan Opera New York

 

 

Press Review

 

 

New Criterion - Jay Nordlinger - March 2022

 

❝Noble, splendid, full of pathos, brave in his high soft singing  … Alagna always gives good value. He gives an audience his all, every time. ❞ 


READ FURTHER: « In Tosca’s Act I, […] the tenor was noble in “Recondita armonia” . In Act II […] his cries of “Vittoria!” were splendid. In Act III, “E lucevan le stelle” was full of pathos. Alagna was brave, in his high soft singing. […] And Alagna always “gives good value,” to borrow a phrase I learned from Paul Johnson, the British writer (who learned it from his teacher, A. J. P. Taylor). In my experience, Alagna never phones in a performance. He gives an audience his all, every time. That is no small thing in an opera singer, or any other performer. Plus, Alagna looks the same as always, at least from my seat. He seems to retain every hair on his head. […] 
Can you see Tosca again, if you’re a veteran operagoer and have seen it a thousand times? Oh, yes. That’s one definition of a masterpiece: it is unstaling. And when the performance is a good one—all the better.  »

 

 

New york Classical Review - Rick Perdian - 03/03/2022

 

❝Over 25 years since Alagna’s Met debut, still a dashing figure on stage. Ardor and refinement, vocal punch, “Recondita armonia” lyrical and rhapsodic, “E lucevan le stelle” impassioned and glowing. The tenor isn’t only lithe, but nimble ❞
 
EXCERPTS : « Puccini’s Tosca returned to the Metropolitan Opera for the third time this season with a new cast [...]. With Aleksandra Kurzak singing the title role for the first time, [audiences] weren’t disappointed. [...] In Act I, she was befittingly coquettish and playful with her real-life husband, Roberto Alagna as Cavaradossi. [...] Kurzak and Alagna had sung while lying together in one another’s arms on a narrow settee — a feat few of their peers could execute so effortlessly. [...]
It’s been over 25 years since Alagna’s Met debut, and while time hasn’t stood still, he still cuts a dashing figure on stage. For this performance, he sang with ardor and refinement, plus the vocal punch that has become his calling card. Alagna’s “Recondita armonia” was lyrical and rhapsodic, his “E lucevan le stelle” impassioned and glowing. The tenor isn’t only lithe, but nimble: He somersaulted across the stage after retrieving a bouquet of flowers tossed at Kurzak that went astray during the curtain calls.»

 

 

Gallery

 



12/01/2022