Michael Pöhn/Wiener Staatsoper
Are they the brand new Sutherland-Pavarotti? Ricciarelli- Carreras? Netrebko and Villazón?
The incessantly paired Nadine Sierra and Xabier Anduaga star within the long-delayed new Met staging of Bellini’s La sonnambula (directed by Villazón) opening on 6 October, and this week Chris’s Cache provides its star pair in a latest Viennese revival of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore wherein they’re hindered and helped by Davide Luciano and Bryn Terfel.
Moreover Sonnambula and Elisir, Sierra and Anduaga not too long ago concluded performances at Madrid’s Teatro Actual as Violetta and Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata, and I wouldn’t be stunned in the event that they’ve additionally performed Rigoletto collectively someplace.
I attended Anduaga’s Met debut in April 2023 and his boyishly charming Nemorino was fantastically complemented by Aleksandra Kurzak’s maturely level-headed Adina. They made a fully irresistible pair.
All through Parterre’s Donizetti month in April, I stored wishing that extra of the composer’s comedian works can be raised for dialogue. I’ve at all times discovered Elisir a pleasure from starting to finish, and I relish it not a lot for its well-known arias however its many vivacious duets and ensembles.
I additionally take pleasure in Don Pasquale, featured this yr on Chris’s Cache, although not as a lot as Elisir, and I’m very a lot trying ahead to the Met’s revival of La fille du régiment with Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee which arrives later in October.
Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore
Adina: Nadine Sierra
Giannetta: Hannah-Theres Weigl
Nemorino: Xabier Anduaga
Belcore: Davide Luciano
Dulcamara: Bryn Terfel
Conductor: Francesco Ivan Ciampa
Vienna Staatsoper
17 Might 2025
In-house recording
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Christopher Corwin
Christopher Corwin started writing for parterre field in 2011 underneath the pen title “DeCaffarrelli.” His work has additionally appeared in , The New York Occasions, Musical America, The Observer, San Francisco Classical Voice and BAMNotes. Like many, he got here to opera through the Saturday Met Opera broadcasts which he started listening to at age 11. His explicit enthusiasm is seventeenth and 18th century opera. Since 2015 he has curated the weekly podcast Trove Thursday on parterre field presenting stay recordings.
