Past Production Reviews
3Allison Cook sings a magnetic and tormented Miss Jessel."
Allison Cook's Miss Jessel , a dramatic soprano with a fascinating timbre and precise singing line, probably the character in which vocal quality and stage presence blended best."
3,613 / 5,000 Translation results At the Vicenza Opera Festival the Falstaff by Iván Fischer is staged and, as if by magic, also that by Giuseppe Verdi. Okay, it's a provocation, but up to a certain point. Here we do not speak of obedience to the Word, intended as a libretto or score - even if in the specific case the score is respected and how! - but of the spirit of the work, of the atmosphere, whatever that may mean. A Falstaff that is first of all comedy and not farce starting from the musical gesture, and then it is also so on stage or what remains of it. For a strange joke of melodrama, a show with a very traditional imprint and moreover in a semi-scenic form, therefore without wings or backdrops and with half an orchestra dispersed among the singers, becomes a cubic theater, almost the intimate atmosphere and the contained spaces of the cavea semicircular of the Olimpico, which seems to embrace the scene to enter it, were able to multiply the mutual identification of the public and artists.
