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...that has become his artistic signature, from the small canvases of his graduate work “Double Dutch” — shown at Serpentine in 1992 — to the operatic costumes of his digital video Addio del Passato (2011), Verdi...
...Building on relationships from the past few years, Grange Park Opera is offering three big draws — tenor Joseph Calleja in Ponchielli’s rarely staged La Gioconda, Simon Keenlyside as Iago in Verdi’s Otello...
...Based at West Horsley just outside the M25, and boasting a recently built jewel box of an opera house modelled on La Scala, it is offering operas on the grand scale and with a line-up of stars (Joseph Calleja...
...Instead, we get TV comedian Les Dennis, who needs to project more strongly as Sir Joseph Porter if he is to cut the mustard. John Savournin’s Captain Corcoran shows how it should be done....
...Only tenor Joseph Calleja in Malta has an illuminated fish tank next to his piano....
...“The programme will be all Monteverdi,” says Robert Hollingworth, founder of I Fagiolini, looking out over the Minster in York, where he teaches at the city’s university....
...Verdi Various operas Joseph Calleja (Decca) After starting out as a bel canto stylist the Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja is moving up to the heavyweight division....
...In fashioning the libretto, Rajiv Joseph knew to prune the novel, but scenes often emerge as under-developed....
...We remember Boito more for the libretti he wrote for Verdi than for his opera, a flop at its 1868 La Scala premiere....
...The narrative was ornamented, moreover, by replicas of the fall of Icarus as painted in 1819 by Merry-Joseph Blondel. Ah, symbolism. Things looked pretty much the same on Thursday....
...The timbre of Joseph Calleja’s plangent tenor is highly distinctive yet underscores the depths of Macduff’s despair in lamenting the loss of wife and children to Macbeth’s despotic reign....
...It might have helped if the conductor, Daniel Oren, could have found the pulse that makes Verdi’s score tick....
...— takes on Verdi’s drama of illicit love and regicide....
...Joseph A LoSchiavo, president and chief executive, explains how changes in society are bringing about a resurgence of interest in religious music....
...Verdi’s Requiem, the sole work at Sunday’s concert, was equally strong....
...On October 27, its new production of Verdi’s I Due Foscari starring Plácido Domingo will be seen in 1,500 cinemas in 40 countries....
...Verdi Otello Riccardo Muti/Chicago Symphony (CSO Resound) 2 CDs Verdi Simon Boccanegra Massimo Zanetti/Vienna Symphony (Decca) 2 CDs...
...Dressed as Joseph Beuys, Gawain beheads the Green Knight with a chainsaw....
...On Thursday, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi honoured its titular composer in his bicentenary year with a first half of Verdi arias sung by tenor Joseph Calleja, sounding less than his usual...
...The Verdi bicentenary is upon us....
...Best overall was Joseph Calleja, singing the tenor part with uncommon grace, though the subdued singing of bass Ferruccio Furlanetto also hit an affectingly sorrowful tone at times....
...Verdi La traviata Renée Fleming (Opus Arte) The 2009 revival of the Royal Opera’s grandiose Richard Eyre staging was worth filming, partly for Antonio Pappano’s conducting and Joseph Calleja’s Alfredo...
...He dislikes Peter Grimes, dismisses Verdi’s Requiem as kitsch and vents other private hatreds. He may throw little light on his own work but his lack of tact provides its own illumination....
...Boccanegra is not a “popular” Verdi opera, but here it is revealed as one of his greatest....
...It would not have mattered if Plácido Domingo, returning to Covent Garden in the baritone title role of Verdi’s opera, had given a subdued performance....
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