Monologues
Singing Opera from Pandemic and onwards. Not just an Anglicism, but a well-known recording or cinematographic technique used to end a piece or a sequence (even when there are no alternative solutions for the conclusion), gradually reducing it to silence; dissolvenza in Italian. We might metaphorically bring it closer to the encouraging data that arrive, …
I had the opportunity to get to know this large and little-known canvas, “Vue générale des théâtres du boulevard du Temple, avant le percement du boulevard di Prince-Eugène, en 1862”, the day after a performance of mine at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, in 2012, thanks to the extraordinary French historian – and great …
Recently, in a flattering article commenting on one of my performances, the reviewer wondered why I wasn't a “superstar". And often, after my performances in the main Opera houses in Vienna, Munich, London, Paris etc., it has happened that Italian fans, who came there to listen to me, after complimenting, asked: “But why is it …
At which point are we: some good news. In some of my thoughts published here in early April, I urged the need for creative proposals to hypothesise scenarios other than the closings and cancellations of seasons and festivals that affected the whole world, imagining how to keep Music and work ‘alive’. Sharing the same urgency, …