Prom 60 - Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro
From: Tuesday, 28th August 2012
To: Tuesday, 28 August 2012
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Our Review:
29 August 2012
BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall
It’s difficult to know what it was about Glyndebourne’s transfer of Michael Grandage’s new Le nozze di Figaro to the Royal Albert Hall that caused the first hour to struggle so much. Certainly, the cruel acoustic of the cavernous venue was not kind but, despite Ian Rutherford’s elaborate re-staging efforts, there were qualities inherent in the casting and original production that didn't help either.
There was little differentiation in the female voices (Sally Matthew’s radiant Countess, Lydia Teuscher’s delightful Susanna and the light and distinctly unmasculine mezzo of Isabel Leonard’s Cherubino) and there were problems with a flatness of characterisation, particularly Vito Priante’s stiff and unyielding Figaro. For all the refinement of Robin Ticciati’s conducting of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a little vulgarity, not sufficientl...
Cast
Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano//Second Bridesmaid)
Ellie Laugharne (First Bridesmaid)
Vito Priante (bass/Figaro)
Lydia Teuscher (soprano/Susanna)
Sally Matthews (soprano/Countess Almaviva)
Audun Iversen (baritone/Count Almaviva)
Andrew Shore (baritone/Bartolo)
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano/Marcellina)
Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano)
Alan Oke (tenor/Don Basilio)
Nicholas Folwell (baritone/Antonio)
Colin Judson (tenor/Don Curzio)
Sarah Shafer (soprano/Barbarina)
Creative
Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Company)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Company)
Robin Ticciati (Conductor)
Michael Grandage (Director)
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