Nile Scott Studios
Fifty-five years after its first fashionable revival in Salzburg with a spectacular forged — Edda Moser, Arleen Auger, Pilar Lorengar, Helen Watts, and Peter Schreier–this summer season finds the fourteen-year-old Mozart’s work starring Sara Blanch, Elsa Dreisig, Julie Roset, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian and Pene Pati performed by Adam Fischer.
Fischer’s forged poaches a number of from current Mitridate performances on the Berlin Staatsoper: Bénos-Djinn and Pati starred within the perversely static staging by Satoshi Miyagi at its 2022 premiere, whereas Dreisig dominated the next yr’s revival which I attended and loved immensely—musically, that’s.
Dreisig was additionally Sifare reverse Blanch’s Aspasia within the current Claus Guth manufacturing at Madrid’s Teatro Actual which additionally featured Franco Fagioli as Farnace and Marina Monzó, this summer season’s Figaro Countess on the Santa Fe Opera.
Christophe Rousset has lengthy been a Mitridate advocate: he performed the Paris manufacturing I noticed in 2000.
He returned to it this spring for live performance performances together with one at La Scala which featured Jessica Pratt, Olga Besmertna, Levy Sekgapane (who additionally sings the title function in at present’s French broadcast), and spectacular, rising Canadian contralto Rose Naggar-Trembley as Farnace.
Earlier than Philippe Jaroussky performed the Montpellier Mitridate, he led a try-out in Poland with American-born, French-situated tenor Zachary Wilder within the title function.
Countertenors have incessantly taken on the function of Farnace. Of the three Mitridates I’ve heard, Brian Asawa and Carlo Vistoli sang Farnace, whereas my first included a disturbingly off-form Tatiana Troyanos
However extra not too long ago, males have begun to additionally tackle the upper function of Sifare. Rising countertenor Key’mon Murrah sings it at present for Jaroussky, whereas very younger male soprano Dennis Orellana carried out it final yr in Brussels.
Hongri Wu, Jaroussky’s Farnace, is at the moment singing Cherubino with the Santa Fe Opera, whereas his Ismene, Lauranne Oliva, takes on the title function on this summer season’s Aix-en-Provence Competition manufacturing of Cavalli’s La Calisto. Nicolò Balducci was to have been Nerone within the canceled Caramoor L’incoronazione di Poppea.
Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
Aspasia: Brenda Rae
Sifare: Vanessa Goikoetxea
Ismene: Angela Yam
Farnace: John Vacation
Arbate: Alexis Peart
Mitridate: Lawrence Brownlee
Marzio: Charles Sy
Conductor: David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
September 2024
Broadcast
Aspasia: Marie Lys
Ismene: Lauranne Oliva
Farnace: Hongni Wu
Sifare: Key’mon Murrah
Arbate: Nicolò Balducci
Mitridate: Levy Sekgapane
Marzio Remy Burnens
Orchestre nationwide Montpellier Occitanie
Conductor: Philippe Jaroussky
Opéra Comédie de Montpellier
12 April 2025
Broadcast
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