The Bavarian State Opera's free streaming series continues this evening with a new production of La Clemenza di Tito.
Watch at 19:00 CET (6pm UK) on Staatsoper.TV.
Conductor Kirill Petrenko
Director Jan Bosse
Tito Vespasiano Toby Spence
Vitellia Kristine Opolais
Sesto Tara Erraught
Servilia Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
Annio Angela Brower
Publio Tareq Nazmi
Director Jan Bosse
Tito Vespasiano Toby Spence
Vitellia Kristine Opolais
Sesto Tara Erraught
Servilia Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
Annio Angela Brower
Publio Tareq Nazmi
I don't see the attraction of Miss Opolais. She has a very unattractive voice. She screams at the top and her lower register was inaudible last night. I doubt I'll be joining the scrum for tickets for Manon Lescaut this summer. She has the potential to ruin it.
Posted by: Chiswickian | 16 February 2014 at 08:28 AM
Very difficult role, VItellia.
Posted by: Nikolaus Vogel | 16 February 2014 at 10:51 AM
Well I suppose these things are in the ear of the beholder, but whatever technical shortcomings Mme. Nelsons might or might not have at either end of her range, the very last thing I would ever expect to see or hear said of her is that she "has a very unattractive voice".
To me, it's middling gorgeous, and in the right repertory - not, to my mind, Puccini - she's really rather wonderful...
Not apropos, am I the only person amazed at the development of Malin Bystrom's voice as heard in the ROH's very iffy new Don Giovanni?
Posted by: SJT | 17 February 2014 at 04:57 AM