Germany Donizetti, La fille du régiment: Soloists, Refrain and Orchestra of Bayerische Staatsoper / Stefano Montanari (conductor). Nationaltheater, Munich, 31.12.2024. (ALL)
Manufacturing:
Director – Damiano Michieletto
Settings – Paolo Fantin
Costumes – Agostino Cavalca
Lighting – Alessandro Carletti
Choreographer – Thomas Wilhelm
Refrain grasp – Stellario Fagone
Dramaturgy – Saskia Kruse, Mattia Palma
Solid:
Marie – Fairly Yende
The Marquise of Berkenfield – Dorothea Röschmann
The Duchess of Crakentorp – Sunnyi Melles
Tonio – Xabier Anduaga
Sulpice – Misha Kiria
Hortensius – Martin Snell
A corporal – Christian Rieger
A peasant – Dafydd Jones
It is extremely logical to have entrusted this new La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) to Damiano Michieletto after his antimilitaristic interpretation of Aida from the earlier season (evaluate right here). On this opera, there is no such thing as a must power the purpose to mock these immature and irrelevant troopers, one merely must take heed to the music and skim the texts.
Michieletto’s conception, cheerful and lightweight, was fairly profitable. The selection to interchange the recitatives with spoken interventions by Sunnyi Melles (identified to cinephiles for her function in The Triangle of Disappointment) with a sure detachment proved to be fairly humorous. The comparatively easy units served the aim, significantly within the second act the place troopers disguise behind trompe-l’oeil painted bushes with out fooling anybody. Costumes have been crafted with nice care. On the podium, Stefano Montanari drove the music ahead with a sure dynamism extra applicable than in his the latest Le nozze di Figaro (evaluate right here) on the Nationtheater.
Surprisingly for an opera home with such an intensive repertoire, that is the primary time in 90 years that this opera has been staged in Munich. It’s true that for such a piece, it’s important to have a first-rate forged. Fairly Yende, within the title function, confirmed nice ease on the stage. Her higher register had a lot flexibility and color. She started with a slightly pleasant, yodelled Marseillaise. Nevertheless, it took her a second to seek out her footing, the orchestra being a bit loud in locations, and she or he was positioned too far again within the first act finale. However this was not the case within the second act, which allowed us to understand her expertise. Misha Kiria was a splendidly sonorous Sulpice whereas Dorothea Röschmann was barely disappointing as La Marquise de Berkenfield although some excessive notes have actual amplitude.
However the discovery of this manufacturing was the younger Spanish tenor Xabier Anduaga, proving a powerful tenor di grazia as Tonio. Readers of Seen and Heard could have already examine – and even seen – him (evaluate right here). He has merely impeccable approach throughout the complete vary, exceptional phrasing, and actual mastery of favor. The timbre is great and, want it’s talked about at this level, the 9 excessive Cs have been dazzling. He can be performing in Barcelona (Verdi and Bellini), Vienna (Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore) and Madrid (Verdi). Don’t miss him if he performs close to you. And because of all concerned, the viewers got here again from this Sylvester efficiency in festive spirit to greet the New 12 months.
Antoine Lévy-Leboyer
