Tancredi by Opera Boston
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
At the time of the premiere of Tancredi in 1813, Rossini, not quite twenty-one years old, had been composing works for the stage for three years and was still not world famous.
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A Boston Pilgrimage
My Favorite Intermissions (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Not in the writiest of moods but sometimes I say that and then the tactile pleasure of typing takes over. And it does seem like a tease to post the Podles marquee and then not say anything. You might call it marquee sadism, if you were something awful. You know how I feel about EP, so I'll start elsewhere and you can skip the end if you're not in the mood for that kind of thing. For the rest of y'uns...
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Contralto Ewa Podles in Rossini: A force of nature
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Late in the second act of Rossini's "Tancredi," Ewa Podles lets forth a prolonged F below middle C - a note of such visceral power and purity that its resonance seems to pin the audience back in their seats.
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Opera Boston's Tancredi: This Is Why Nobody Writes Letters Anymore
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Yeghishe Manucharyan (left) as Amenaide's conflicted, marriage-arranging, pregnant-lady-executing father, with Ewa Podleś as Tancredi. The plot of Gioachino Rossini's Tancredi is contrived, even by operatic standards. Whatever this work says about Love and Duty and Sacrifice and all that, it's tangled up in some nonsense about an unaddressed, undelivered (except into the wrong hands) love letter....
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Few thorns in Rose-conducted opera 'Tancredi'
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
The basic premise in Rossini's opera "Tancredi"? Why use 50 beautiful notes, when 50,000 sound better. Fortunately, conductor Gil Rose found a host of...
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Mozart, Rossini and Verdi at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Of these three productions staged for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the beautifully dressed Entführung and refined Tancredi present the company as a theater for tasteful, stylish productions, just a tad on the dull side.