Seven minutes of applause for 'La Bohème' revisited by the director Emma Dante. Ovations especially for the young soprano Selene Zanetti, convincing in the role of Mimì.
It was the first big post-pandemic show at the Teatro San Carlo, with the maximum capacity allowed, twenty months after the last one, dated February 2020. And also the first since the new superintendent took office, Stephane Lissner.
The presence of the Minister of Culture marked the reopening of the San Carlo to the great opera Dario Franceschini"There is a great desire to restart. Italy has seen how sadder the country was with theaters and cinemas closed, without music in the squares and streets. It is a real restart, in conditions of absolute safety and of the highest quality".
A desire to start again that the Neapolitan public has embraced by filling the theater in every seat.
Four performances scheduled Thursday 14, Saturday 16, Sunday 17 e Tuesday 19 October. All spectators are required to have a green pass.
Put aside the attic of the original text of Giacomo Puccini, the scene takes place outdoors, on the Parisian rooftops, “for a Bohemia suspended in the clouds” as the director Emma Dante wanted it, visibly satisfied at the end of the work. And it is precisely on the rooftops that the four bohemian friends will get to know the high life, finding on their way also a prostitute and a trans.
For the Sicilian director, who in 2009 had already brought to the stage at La Scala in Milan a controversial Carmen with a high level of eroticism, the next test will be I Vespri, in January at the Massimo in Palermo.
With Selene Zanetti (Mimì), the American tenor performed on the stage of the San Carlo Stephen Costello (Rodolfo) who faced the test with a brace on his arm due to a shoulder fracture suffered a few days ago slipping in the Galleria Umberto; the Polish baritone Andrzej Filonczyk in the guise of the painter Marcello; Blessed Tower in those of Musetta. To conduct the orchestra and the choir of the San Carlo Juraj Valčuha.
Yesterday's La Bohème was a preview of the opera season at the San Carlo which this year will see a double inauguration: the November 21in fact it will be Mario Martone to raise the curtain on the 21/22 season by trying his hand at theOthello di Giuseppe Verdi.
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