| “Boris Statsenko has performed the title role for more than one decade, and though he has long lived abroad, he should be given the title of Honoured Rigoletto of Russia. Not every baritone can perform the strong character, skillfully created by the composer, and a good Verdian jester has been set above rubies in Russia for a long time. It’s not that easy to get a ticket to this performance at the Novaya Opera”. Business online Newspaper
February 11, 2016 “Performances of that kind are real labour of love. When you see the declared 16th century, which conditionally shows in costumes, when the whole action is clear, decorative and colourful, and you don’t have to solve the director’s riddles while listening to the music”. Belcanto
November 3, 2013 “On the whole, the music aspect of the performance was of high quality, which cannot be often said about productions of Moscow opera houses. And the main hero of this is the conductor Jan Latham-Koenig! He understands the conductor’s objectives with great precision and knows how bring them home to the orchestra and with its help to present them to the audience”. Belcanto
February 6, 2011 “Rigoletto at the Novaya Opera can be called a most singular phenomenon, a blessing for every music lover. Itisoneofthe productions that go down in history and are handed down from generation to generation as a theatrical legend”. Literature Newspaper
January 10–16, 2001 “Of course, everyone excitedly waited for Khvorostovsky to appear. Great expectations often produce the effect of slight disappointment. Khvorostovsky is undoubtedly good, very good! He is a star! Hisperfectvoiceis mesmerizing.<...>The main point is that the classical opera is alive and that here is a theatre which can turn it into reality”. OperaNews
December 22, 2000 “What we heard wasn’t carelessly mangled mincemeat; it was Verdi’s real opera – without a single cut from the beginning to the end. And we remembered what the Verdian opera theatre is, with passions, tears, tenderness, perfidy and the human miracle of singing, which alone can embrace the whole of drama”. Izvestiya Newspaper
December 21, 2000 |
