Luca Pisaroni – operaexplorer

Atonement for La Sonnambula: Florez, Pisaroni, Fally and Nazarova in Vienna Staatsoper, January 13th, 2017.

To get into opera travel on Friday, 13th might be an adventurous proposal even for the least superstitious opera fan as it turned out. Flight delay, mad dash by a taxi from the airport to arrive at the evening box office to collect the ticket just 5 minutes to start, then get changed in a […]

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Charmed by Don Giovanni in Salzburg. “Don Giovanni”, Salzburger Festspiele, August 13th, 2016

Saturday evening in the Haus für Mozart promised long awaited rendevouz with two of outstanding Mozart gentlemen – Ildebrando d’Arcangelo and Luca Pisaroni. I remember seeing previous production of Don Giovanni from Salzburg live streamed in summer of 2014, featuring both Ildebrando and Luca, just before my first visit to Salzburg festival a few weeks […]

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Wishlist and plans for operatic adventures in 2016

Starting new year there are a lot of reviews of 2015 and just a few forward looking insights, thus I decided to put together my wishlist (or hopeful list) while absorbed in listening to Jonas Kaufmann singing Puccini at La Scala. Main unknowns yet are Munich Festspiele and Salzburg Festspiele ticket allocations which should come […]

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Sad Mozart in Salzburg

WOLFGANG A. MOZART • LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Aug 15th, 2015 Opera buffa in four acts K. 492 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Text by Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838) after Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s play La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro (1778) CREATIVE TEAM Dan Ettinger, Conductor Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Director Alex Eales, […]