Special offer. Mozart: Idomeneo
Bernard Richter (Idomeneo), Rachel Frenkel (Idamante), Valentina Nafornița (Ilia), Irina Lungu (Elettra), Pavel Kolgatin (Arbace)
Wiener Staatsoper, Tomáš Netopil, Kasper Holten
Best of all is Irina Lungu’s Elettra who tears into her final aria ‘D’Oreste, d’Aiace’ as if there were no tomorrow, which of course there isn’t for her!..As you would expect, the chorus of...
Special offer. Mozart: Idomeneo
Bernard Richter (Idomeneo), Rachel Frenkel (Idamante), Valentina Nafornița (Ilia), Irina Lungu (Elettra), Pavel Kolgatin (Arbace)
Wiener Staatsoper, Tomáš Netopil, Kasper Holten
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Best of all is Irina Lungu’s Elettra who tears into her final aria ‘D’Oreste, d’Aiace’ as if there were no tomorrow, which of course there isn’t for her!..As you would expect, the chorus of...
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Idomeneo is considered as the first of the seven uncontested masterworks of Mozart’s dramatic oeuvre and it is perhaps even the most revolutionary and forward-looking of his work. In 'Kasper Holten’s coherent production' (Die Presse) Bernard Richter was 'a cultivated bright tenor with beautiful expressive moments' (Kronen Zeitung). 'Valentina Nafornit¸a performed the role of Ilia with passion and reached every height with ease and Irina Lungu portrayed Elettra as a great tragic figure and unfolded her soprano with verve in the final aria' (Kurier). Conductor Tomáš Netopil provided with the orchestra 'gripping moments from the virtuoso overture onwards' (Kronen Zeitung)
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- Bernard Richter (Idomeneo), Rachel Frenkel (Idamante), Valentina Nafornița (Ilia), Irina Lungu (Elettra), Pavel Kolgatin (Arbace), Wiener Staatsoper (opera company)
- Tomáš Netopil
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Awards and reviews
April 2022
Best of all is Irina Lungu’s Elettra who tears into her final aria ‘D’Oreste, d’Aiace’ as if there were no tomorrow, which of course there isn’t for her!..As you would expect, the chorus of the Staatsoper are magnificent and Tomá Netopil coaxes elegant playing from the orchestra, notably the solo violin in Idamante’s Act II Rondo.
April 2022
Holten gets some accomplished acting from his young cast, the sets and costumes are unexceptionable, the conducting and playing excellent, the singing likewise.
