Saturday, January 5, 2008

Les bohémiens de Vick



Graham Vick's first collaboration with the Greek National Opera gave life to a new production of La Bohéme featuring a bunch of talented greek singers PLUS two Rodolfos from abroad... Here are some fotos from the premiere on the 21st of December, starring Mata Katsouli as Mimí (Elena Kelessidi second cast), Leonardo Capalbo as Rodolfo (Sébastien Guèze second cast), Lukia Spanaki as Musetta (Irini Kyriakidou second cast), Dimitri Tiliakos as Marcello (what a great singer...), Haris Andrianos as Schaunard (the guy in the bucket, an extraordinary comedian) etc.


















Greek Diva Vasso Papantoniou with the new director of the Greek National Ballet Irek Mukhamedov (!!!!) and her husband, writer Vassilis Vassilikos


The new National Opera manager, Giovanni Pacor with his wife .
All fotos appear courtesy of Haris Akriviadis

And here is the Rodolfo-Mimi arias from the premiere:
Leonardo Capalbo as Rodolfo
Mata Katsouli as Mimi

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2 comments:

mahler76 said...

Genika pados den diavasa kai kala pragmata gia tin parastasi afti. Pali kala pou den piga mallon....

Anonymous said...

Sto allo mou post gkriniaksa gia ta diafora strava tis Lyrikias (TM) alla den asxolithika poly me tin parastasi. Idou merika skorpia.

Piga stis 3 Ianouariou me to cast Kelesidi-Gueze-Tiliakos etc. Vrika tin moderna skinothesia (tis protimaw panta apo tis paradosiakes) eksairetiki, eidika to evrima me to mploko tis astynomias gia eksakrivwsi stoixeiwn stin 3i praksi. To palio telwneiako synoro tou Parisiou einai panta to dyskolotero simeio gia ton ekmonternismo tis boheme, i ypoloipi einai poly monterna apo moni tis, gi'afto ki einai toso dimofilis sto moderno koino - oloi thymountai ta foititika tous xronia vasika. OK, voithaei kai i mousiki, min arxisete na fwnazete :-).

Gia tin orxistra ta gkriniaksa sto allo post. Adikaiologita fortissima kai megales dyskolies me ta polyproswpa ensembles, pou einai ki i oli istoria sti boheme. I xorwdia den itan eggleziki men (i mallon oualleziki) apo plevras poiotitas, alla den itan kai toso tragiki. Ligaki flat isws, alla oxi frikti.

Oi solist mou aresan apo arketa ews poly. O Tiliakos einai eksairetikos varytonos kai ithopoios kai pragmatika eklepse tin parastasi. OK, voithaei oti o Marcello ehei tis kalyteres faseis sto libretto, alla o typos einai pragmatika poly kalos. Tha ton ehw yp'opsi ama erthei apo ta meri mas an kai apo ti viografia eida oti ehei akres me ti Germania kai oxi me tous agglosaksones. Tin Kelesidi, an kai den tin eiha ksanadei, tin psiloeiha akousta apo to ROH, ehei sxetika makria synergasia kai -nomizw alla de pairnw orko- itan sto Young Artists Program mas edw. Mou aresei i fwni tis, ehei katitis apo Freni sto xrwma tis kai epomenws paei eks'orismou gia Mimi. Kali einai, ama mas ksanarthei tha epidiwksw na tin akousw. O Gallos me afise me anamikta synaisthimata, kai den eskasa kai apo enthousiasmo, Operalia prize notwithstanding. Ehei kali alla mallon adynami fwni kai oi psiles tou einai perierges - tis pianei, alla einai kapws, well, mystiries. Den ehw to programma epanw mou kai de thymamai ta onomata twn ypoloipwn alla: o Schaunard itan kalos, o Colline mallon adiaforos kai i Musetta mia xara ithopoios alla dystyhws perase ena treno kai tis ekopse tis psiles.

Sa prospatheia pantws itan poly filotimi kai bravo ston typo pou katafere na ferei ton Vick katw, einai apo tous pragmatika kalous skinothetes. Ta strava ta eipa sto allo post, as min epanalamvanomai. Elpizw oti, an kai otan ftiahtei to kainourio magazi tis Lyrikis sto delta, tha ginei arketa moda gia tis kyries twn B.P. etsi wste na pesei kana fraggo kai na apeksartithei kapws apo ton frixto dimosioypallilismo pou tin krataei pisw. Kai elpizw na synehizoun na xrisimopoioun Ellines kallitehnes, ante kai tipota nearous anerxomenous ksenous, anti na kouvalane "megala onomata" sti dysi tis karrieras tous, opws px tote pou eferan (oxi i ELS, to festival athinwn) to gero-nouregief otan imoun mikros sta 80s kai itan na ton lypasai ton anthrwpo.