Marco Arturo Marelli – operaexplorer

Puccini’s western starring Antonenko and Magee. La Fanciulla del West, Wiener Staatsoper, January 14th, 2017

Giacomo Puccini is one of my favourite composers, but somehow until now I have seen La Fanciulla del West only as livestream or MetHD and thus was quite eager to see it live with a great cast. As there was a plan to come to Vienna for La Sonnambula, the opportunity to see Aleksandrs Antonenko and […]

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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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Riddles on the lake. “Turandot” by Giacomo Puccini, Bregenzer Festspiele, July 29th, 2016

The evening started with a breathtaking sunset over Bodensee, and hundreds of people going along seaside Promenade towards lake stage were stopping and taking photos of the lake and ships arriving with spectators. The weather was perfect, cooling down after the hot day, no rain expected, so everything promised perfect evening. The lake stage itself is […]

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Visual and vocal feast: Die Ägyptische Helena, Deutsche Oper Berlin, April 1st, 2016

The Egyptian Helena by Richard Strauss was unexplored territory for my operatic knowledge, and since I have decided to get immersion-type experience in Strauss-land over a weekend, I have not built up any biases to influence the perception of the performance. It was a wise move, as if all reading I have done after would […]