Paul Appleby

Películas

Béatrice et Bénédict
Berlioz’s whimsical and nostalgic take on Shakespeare’s great comedy Much Ado About Nothing graces the stage of Glyndebourne in Laurent Pelly’s astute 2016 production. Italian maestro Antonello Manacorda leads the London Philharmonic in Berlioz’s brilliant score.
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
Don Ottavio
Esta ópera es muy oportuna dada su ubicación en la Europa feudal antes de la Revolución Francesa, donde el crimen cometido por los ricos y poderosos quede impune. Don Giovanni, a Lech notorio y violador, intenta llevar fuera de la virginal Donna Anna en contra de su voluntad, y mata a su anciano padre a sangre fría después de que él está atrapado. Sin embargo, Giovanni se escapa con su identidad oculta por una máscara, y Donna Anna se llena con un ansia de venganza contra el atacante enmascarado, e incluso rechaza los avances de la clase Ottavio que realmente se preocupa por ella.
Saul
Jonathan
Glyndebourne's Saul stole the summer and had critics raving. The Guardian (****) applauded virtuoso stagecraft from director Barrie Kosky in his debut production there, calling the show a theatrical and musical feast of energetic choruses, surreal choreography and gorgeous singing. For The Independent, which ranked it amongst five top classical and opera performances of 2015, there was no praise too high for the cast. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Ivor Bolton sparkles from the pit with period panache, and designer Katrin Lea Tag's exuberant costumes (The Times ****) set the Old Testament story in Handel's time, with a witty twinge of the contemporary.
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Hylas
Berlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the exploits of Aeneas. Rising tenor Bryan Hymel, in his Met debut, stars as the hero charged by the gods with the founding of the city of Rome. Susan Graham is Dido, Queen of Carthage, who becomes Aeneas’s lover, and Deborah Voigt sings Cassandra, the Trojan princess whose warnings about the impending destruction of Troy go unheeded. Francesca Zambello’s atmospheric production, featuring choreography by Doug Varone, is led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi.
Making It
Ray
In this coming of age comedy, a cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.