OTELLO - VERDI EN CONCERT - PHILHARMONIKER BERLIN
Opera
Performance
Philharmoniker Berlin
22th of September 2024
Cast
Orchestre der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Sir Donald Runnicles chef d'orchestre
Federica Lombardi soprano (Desdemona)
Karis Tucker mezzo-soprano (Emilia)
Roberto Alagna ténor (Othello)
Lilit Davtyan soprano (Nono)
Thomas Cilluffo ténor (Cassio)
Thomas Lehman baryton (Jago)
Jared Werlein baryton-basse (Lodovico/Montano)
Press Review
Berlingerpost - Matthias Nöther - 25 September 2024
"Roberto Alagna mastered Act 4 remarkably well, with a darker, heavier tenor while retaining his always remarkable squillo ... Incredible stylistic precision in his gestures and singing... With his mature Italian heroic tenor, Alagna is perhaps the ideal casting for the role at the moment ... The audience was rightly enthusiastic"
"For the concert performance of the final act of Verdi's 'Otello', which lasts only half an hour, Deutsche Oper has engaged international stars - and this is by no means an exaggerated investment: anyone who watches and listens to Roberto Alagna in his final passages as the murderous Otello will be amazed by the stylistic precision of his gestures and singing in just a few notes and moments - with his mature Italian heroic tenor, Alagna is perhaps the ideal casting for the role at the moment".
Der Opernfreund - Ingrid Wanja - 25 September 2024
"The majority of the audience had probably come for the performance of Act 4 of Verdi's Otello with Roberto Alagna, but also for Federica Lombardi's Desdemona [... ] . Roberto Alagna [...] mastered the fourth act remarkably well with a darker, heavier tenor while retaining his always remarkable squillo*. He took a rather veristic approach to the part, which always makes an impression [... ]. The audience was enthusiastic about Alagna's fourth act of Otello, and rightly so".[*squillo: a distinctive brilliant, ringing quality in the timbre of the voice, ndlr]
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