Liège’s “Capuleti & Montecchi”: Bonus Material 1 – Ciofi Interview
Last night’s live broadcast from Liège (check out the review over at Purity’s!) was so much fun that I decided to run a set of bonus posts of the CGSP/CGMP kind – for those of you who couldn’t join us and for those who could and would like to relive a few highlights.
Up first: the (pre-recorded) intermission interview with newly appointed Soprano Goddess (TM) Patrizia Ciofi, on how to sing belcanto, the challenges of the repertory, techniques of expressivity and why mezzo voices make good lovers when it comes to soprano leads (at least in belcanto): it’s the timbre, stupid! (something that we inexplicably forgot after Handel, despite the continuing advances in the field of physics)
And to the White Shirt crowd: sometimes, all it takes is a black shirt, isn’t it?
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Up next: the interview with Laura Polverelli on Bellini’s vocal music and “almost always” being a man on stage.
Notice Opera Live have been very sweet and if you had a ticket and missed bits cos if their technical hiccup at the start you can still watch the whole thing online if you log-in again. I must say I’ll be taking the opportunity to watch it again myself, those final scenes are lingering in the mind a great deal… http://www.operalive.org
PS If you are missing Ms Polverelli’s lovely warm tones I picked up her Vivaldi CD Concerti De Camera on iTunes for £4.99 UK – a bargain. Beautiful music and beautiful voice, I really do think it’s such a shame the costuming and directing didn’t allow her to deliver fully on the masculine side of Romeo as that would have made a great performance really great!
I can only agree; the Opera Live folks a very accessible. Yesterday, there was general email saying they were sorry about the connection issues and that they were trying to sort things out and get back to their clients today, Feb. 4th.
I’ll definitely be watching the whole thing again. Thanks for the tip about the Vivaldi; I’ll have to see whether Amazon has it as a general mp3 download for the non-iPeople.
…and let’s hope we’ll see Ms. Polverelli in another production sometime soon, so we can get a chance at listening to her without being distracted by that Lady in Red outfit.
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