Ermonela Jaho and Barno Ismatullaeva in Maria Stuarda at Staatsoper Hamburg in 2025 / Picture: © Brinkhoff-Mögenburg
Subsequent month, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda returns to the Met for the primary time in ten years with Lisette Oropesa and Angela Meade as its central dueling queens. Parterre Field takes the return of this Tudor favourite to spotlight two different divas in addition to pay tribute to the late conductor Antonino Fogliani.
Fogliani, who died out of the blue after a extreme sickness in August at solely 50, was particularly distinguished in bel canto repertoire. After finding out on the conservatory in Bologna and debuting professionally on the Rossini Competition in Pesaro, he lead operas at La Scala, Rome Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, La Fenice, and the Hamburg Opera, the place right now’s featured efficiency was captured final 12 months. Fogliani’s loss of life obtained an outpour of saddness on social media from artists who labored with him, together with Ailyn Pérez, Olga Peretyatko, and Saioa Hernandez. “He was not solely a beautiful and expressive musician and artist, mirrored tenor Charles Castronovo, “however a mild and type human.”
“He knew the right way to form a vocal line like virtually nobody else,” Sondra Radvanovsky mentioned. “He felt the music. He formed each phrase prefer it was his final breath. There aren’t any phrases as robust as the sentiments he might create with it. The opera world is smaller right now with out him in it.”
Maria Stuarda stays primarily the one bel canto function left within the repertoire of verista Ermonela Jaho, who returns to her signature function of Madama Butterfly subsequent week in Vienna. In the meantime, Uzbek soprano Barno Ismatullaeva sings a barely extra different repertoire. She’ll be Glinka’s Lyudmila in Hamburg later this month and she or he’ll be the virtuous Fidelia in Puccini’s uncommon Edgar in January in Turin.
The Met just isn’t laying sole declare this Donizetti title subsequent month; Marina Rebeka will sing the title function subsequent month in Munich (changing Nadine Sierra, who was scheduled to make her debut within the title function however canceled due to sickness) reverse Anastasia Bartoli. The opening efficiency will broadcast on 20 December.
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda, “Deh! l’accogli… Morta al mondo… Va, preparati, furente”
Maria Stuarda: Ermonela Jaho
Elisabetta: Barno Ismatullaeva
Anna Kennedy: Aebh Kelly
Roberto: Lengthy Lengthy
Talbot: Alexander Roslavets
Cecil: Gezim Myshketa
Conductor: Antonino Fogliani
Staatsoper Hamburg
16 March 2025
In-house recording
