Massimo Cavalletti

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccini’s early hit. Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which sets the action in 1940s occupied France, was one of the highlights of the Met’s 2015–16 season. Massimo Cavalletti as Manon’s brother and Brindley Sherratt as her aging admirer co-star, and Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.

A new generation of rising stars shines in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production of Puccini’s most popular opera. Vittorio Grigolo is the poor poet Rodolfo who falls head over heels for his neighbor, the seamstress Mimì, sung by the radiant Kristine Opolais. Susanna Phillips is the flirtatious Musetta, Massimo Cavaletti is her sweetheart Marcello, and Patrick Carfizzi as Schaunard and Oren Gradus as Colline complete the ensemble. Stefano Ranzani conducts.

파리의 가난한 연인들의 애틋한 사랑과 비극을 담은 푸치니의 ‘라 보엠’은 세계적으로 가장 큰 사랑을 받고 있는 인기 오페라의 하나다. 본 신보는 클래식 영상물의 새로운 명품 레이블로 각광받고 있는 Accentus에서 최초로 발매하는 오페라 타이틀로, 2012년 12월 발렌시아의 레이나 소피아에서 있었던 공연실황을 담은 것이다. 2017년부터 라 스칼라의 새로운 수장을 맡게 될 리카르도 샤이가 지휘봉을 잡았고, 최근 각광받고 있는 이탈리아 출신의 젊은 연출가 다비데 리베르모레가 연출을 맡았던 이 공연은 음악적으로는 물론이거니와 시각적인 면에서도 출중한 퀄러티를 자랑한다. 특히 무대의 후면에 투사되는 고흐, 르느와르, 세잔 등의 화풍을 모사한 그림들은 그 자체만으로도 상반된 분위기가 지배하는 각 막의 특징을 효과적으로 연출해낸다. 샤이의 강력한 지휘는 시종일관 긴장의 끈을 늦출 수 없도록 만들며, 정상급 테너 아퀼레스 마차도와 이스라엘 출신의 소프라노 기대주 갈 제임스를 비롯한 주역 성악진들은 각각의 캐릭터들을 능숙하고 자연스럽게 연기하였다.

This 2013 Salzburg Festival performance of Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdis late masterwork and crowning achievement, features conductor Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic. The staging thought up by Italian director Damiano Michieletto moves the action from a fictitious London to that special care home, the Casa Verdi, a place rich in memories of great days past and impressions of a real-time present. Ambrogio Maestri seems a tailor-made Falstaff. His physique is just right for the part, as are his powerful voice, flair for drama and feeling for the Verdi style. (New York Times)

Live performance of Puccini's opera at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. Piotr Beczala stars as Rodolfo with Anna Netrebko as Mimi, Massimo Cavalletti as Marcello and Nino Machaidze as Musetta. Daniele Gatti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera Chorus and the Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children's Choir.

Features a great cast: Ambrogio Maestri is one of the finest Falstaffs of our time. The Italian baritone brings a powerful, versatile voice to his role, but also brings his character a hilarious buffo quality. Daniele Gatti, one of the most acclaimed opera conductors working today, leads a stunning cast of singers including Barbara Fritolli as Alice Ford. Genuinely warm italianita in all of the music-making, combined with a boisterous production by stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, turns Verdis commedia lirica into a fireworks display of high spirits as well as what the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called musically and dramaturgically a feast of life and of love of life.

Coming just before the mature final works, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra - along with Un Ballo in Maschera, Les Vêpres Siciliennes, La Forza del Destino and Don Carlos - occupy a strange but fascinating hinterland in the career of the composer. Each of the operas, influenced by Verdi's political involvement in the Risorgimento for the reunification of Italy during the period, are very much concerned with the exercise of power, but they all rely on typically operatic conventions of bel canto and French Grand Opéra in their use of personal tragedies and unlikely twists of fate to highlight the human feelings and weaknesses that lie behind their historical dramas. Written in 1859, but revised by the composer in 1881, Piave's libretto given an uncredited reworking by Arrigo Boito, Simon Boccanegra is consequently one of the more interesting works from this period, certainly from a musical standpoint. Live from Teatro all Scala, Milan 2010.