Vittorio Grigolo – operaexplorer

Enjoyable “L’elisir d’amore” in Vienna with Grigolo, Schrott, Carroll, Yildiz

The night was not my prime purpose coming to Vienna – as the flight departs in the afternoon, and I already had some issue with sudden delays and almost missed performance, this time I decided to take precautions and go on the previous day, which luckily coincided with short working day before our Independence day […]

Power and suffering in Rigoletto: Grigolo, Sierra, Lučić excel in Paris.

Going to Paris to see another Rigoletto with seemingly the same cast as just one month ago at The Met did not provide much enthusiasm, the main point of interest being the production directed by Claus Guth. There were also some reservations towards Vittorio Grigolo as The Duke, since last time in London I was […]

Italian flavour for suffering Werther. Werther, Massenet, The Royal Opera. June 24th, 2016

This has been one of experiences when comign out of performance I feel more confused rather than taken by performance, and it has been quite a while since I got my opinion on this particular performance together. There were quite inflated expectations towards the cast, Charlotte to be sung by Joyce DiDonato, whom I adore, […]