Karine Deshayes was even more convincing as Romeo because she was vocally and dramatically more at ease with the role and the cast. The way the lighting seems to dance around the singers when the drama gets more intense is adding poetry to the whole action. My highlights are the ensembles, especially the quintet which ends act I, on the model of Rossini's vocal sextet which I had the pleasure to discover also live at the TCE in Tancredi on the 23rd. I am late reporting on all the events I attended...
I seem to be more affected by what is going on here and I am spending more time in front of my telly to see how awful the European vote turned out here... shame on us really. We are showing how bad our Historical memory is, just ignoring or pretending to ignore the roots of the Far French Right, as 1 citizen out of 8 voted for the Far Right today here.
More and more, I get to understand this type of Bel Canto operas written by Bellini, inherited of Mozart and Rossini and opening the road to Verdi.
My favourite ensemble on the 17th, a wonderful chorus where everyone is thinking about what happened and what will follow... and is thinking aloud at the same time, together, and yet isolated in fear and sorrow.
Tonight, while watching the results of our French European vote, I thought it could be an opera dramatical scene where our politicians are singing the sad aria of shame for some of them, all at the same time... but not in tune.
Opera and politics - shame one cannot replace the other!
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