Boston

I’ve had bad luck with the weather in Boston - rain and more rain - and taking pictures was quite challenging! If you are in the area, I strongly recommend a visit to Cambridge in order to take a look at Harvard University. It is such a beautiful place and houses so many interesting museums [...]

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Soubrettes in couchettes

James Robinson’ s production of Mozart’ s Abduction from the Seraglio for the Boston Lyric Opera has the action transferred to a train trip in the Orient Express, depicted as three wagons that move lengthwise according to each scene. In this concept, the Pasha Selim is a dandy, Blondchen is self-interested and smokes a lot [...]

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And, yes, I’m in Boston

I have just noticed that my previous post lacked this piece of information. I am visiting my cousin Leila here in Massachusetts and took the opportunity to see some concerts and visiting again the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum, this amazing collection of masterpieces masterly disposed as a sort of prototype of what would be later [...]

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Trojan, but hardly a warhorse

Although I cannot call myself a Berliozian (but rather the opposite of that), I couldn’ t help checking the Boston Symphony Orchestra’ s concert with the first part of Berlioz’ s gigantic rarely performed opera Les Troyens. I have to say that my first positive experience with that work involved James Levine’ s DVD from the Metropolitan [...]

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Jochum’s Così

Just to say that a review of Eugen Jochum’s Così Fan’ Tutte on DG has been added to re: opera (please find the link on the right of the page).

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From Russia with oddness

The first movie by Alexander Sokurov I had the opportunity to watch was Russian Ark. Although my lack of knowledge in Russian History made me miss many a point made there, who can really resist the richness of imagery and the technical virtuoso quality displayed by the director? Then I saw ”The Sun”, an amazingly sensitive portrait of Japanese [...]

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More Don Giovanni

I have retouched the discography of Mozart’s Don Giovanni on the re:opera page (the link is on the right) and added comments of the DVDs from Zürich (Welser-Möst) and Madrid (Victor Pablo Pérez).

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