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I have the October issue of BBC MUSIC, with the cover story 20 Greatest Operas of all time, and I'm still staggered by the selections. They polled 172 active singers world-wide, and Carmen appears nowhere on the list. The people who actually sing the operas I love do not like Carmen. I guess it's too French, or too vulgar or too... whatever.
So I'm going to write about this film of the Antonacci-Kaufmann pairing at Covent Garden in 2007, in an attempt to redress the wrong. It's a good show: Pappano conducts well, sets and costumes are appropriate for the period (no Regietheatre here, thank God), the singers are out of the top drawer. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo whom I have admired as Figaro and Almaviva is not the Escamillo of my dreams--he's too laid back, too smiling--but he's in good voice. Antonacci really projects the sweaty physicality of Carmen, on the same level as the Rosi film of 1984, and Kaufmann is excellent as the befuddled Don Jose. Bound for his ruination, and we're happy to accompany him.
So I'm going to write about this film of the Antonacci-Kaufmann pairing at Covent Garden in 2007, in an attempt to redress the wrong. It's a good show: Pappano conducts well, sets and costumes are appropriate for the period (no Regietheatre here, thank God), the singers are out of the top drawer. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo whom I have admired as Figaro and Almaviva is not the Escamillo of my dreams--he's too laid back, too smiling--but he's in good voice. Antonacci really projects the sweaty physicality of Carmen, on the same level as the Rosi film of 1984, and Kaufmann is excellent as the befuddled Don Jose. Bound for his ruination, and we're happy to accompany him.
- bob998
- 27 nov. 2017
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