Been watching this again on my Giovanni spree. Luca Pisaroni ןn the 2010 Glyndebourne production (Jurowski / Kent) is definitely the main dish. Already THE leading Leporello of the present decade, he has here all the support he needs - excellent, daemonic, supportive musical direction, a stage director who lets him express his personality, great partners, espceially Kate Royal. So this Madamina is in all ways, absolutely perfect dramatico-musically. This Leporello has everything - the anger, loathing, cynicism, authoritatian personality - not just a stock-in-trade buffo, the character, as Mozart surely intended, lives a very full life here. The penetrating, fruity consonants, the pure vowels, it sounds as if he bites into delicious grapes. Theres a taste to his Italian. Stage presence is elastic, even balletic, whithout being exaggerated and everything coming out of the score. Preparation is meticulous and everybody knows absolutely what theyre doing. Details like the MA falling precisely, minutely, even articulatively on the orchestral chord, that is something you dont usually get. Its on 2:27. Granted, this makes the aria utterly loathsome and hard to take, as it should be. The aria starts at 1:55 but recitative is so delicious, utterly unmissable. https://youtube/watch?v=MZ6YpGdstsM
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:13:39 +0000
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