"L'ORFEO" - MONTEVERDI - OPERA DE VIENNE - 31 10 26 (3)

      Photo : Marcel Urlaub                                                                   

 La chronique et la vidéo d'Eléonore : 

ROLANDORFEO - Vienna - 31 10 2026

My third "L'Orfeo"

To enter the Vienna State Opera for a ROLANDO-evening, is always a greatest feeling. In this period, even more - Rolando's voice is everywhere at the Opera, greeting, together with Euridice, the guests arriving at their wedding.

Exceptional moments that bring deep familiarity.

Rolando has the regal talent, the fantastic ability to create the impression of - and provides the strong feeling of - an always different and new show, with all the freshness of his singing and acting, and to offer every time a new "version"of his performance.

The vocal magic starts with Rolando's very first notes : "Rosa del ciel". The singing is heavenly beautiful. This beauty remains constantly present, in each note and each moment, during the whole performance.

Other particular vocal highlights, in a very personal selection, with their especially stellar performance : "Tu sei morta" and, in this very same aria : " ... ed io rimango ...". in the most heart-wrenching tones. "Se fuggi tu, dolcissima speranza", "Possente spirto..." ...

And all the other ones ...

At the stage door, Rolando offered us a special gift with his marvelous spontaneity : he performed a perfect, virtuoso trillo, one from his richest collection.

KÖSZÖNÖM, ROLANDO !

Eléonore

La vidéo de Klari :

 

"L'ORFEO" - MONTEVERDI - OPERA DE VIENNE - 31 10 26 : REPORTAGE (2)

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"L'ORFEO" - MONTEVERDI - OPERA DE VIENNE - 31 10 26 (1)

                                                                           

Photo : Marcel Urlaub

La chronique et la photo d'Antonella :  

Un altro Orfeo a Vienna
La sera del 31 ottobre terza performance dell’Orfeo di Monteverdi alla Staatsoper di Vienna, con la direzione musicale di Stefan Gottfried alla testa del Concentus Musicus Wien, l’animata messa in scena di Tom Morris, e Rolando nel ruolo del titolo. 

Niente mostri o fantasmi per questa sera di Hallloween operistica, ma certamente molte ombre d’Averno, e gli inferi ingegnosamente rappresentati da una sopraelevazione del palcoscenico che rivela allo spettatore gli antri del mondo sotterraneo.

 Molto bravi tutti, dal coro ai danzatori ai solisti, all’orchestra e all’applauditissimo direttore. Senz’altro notevoli la Musica, la speranza e l’Eco di Nadezda Karyazina, e la Messaggera/Proserpina di Margaret Plummer, ma e’ soprattutto la presenza scenica di Rolando a impressionare e ad imporsi. In questa splendida opera barocca, Rolando ha modo di dispiegare, oltre alla sua maestria vocale, anche tutto il suo carisma nell’emozionare e coinvolgere il pubblico, dalla gioia esplosiva e solare della prima parte ai toni dolorosi del secondo atto, fino al cruento ma pacificante sacrificio finale. Un’apoteosi in cielo per la sfortunata coppia di amanti,  e un’apoteosi sul palcoscenico per tutti gli artisti.  E che dire del tributo alla grandezza di Monteverdi, imperitura gloria dell’opera?

Antonella 

                                           

                                                               

"L'ORFEO" - MONTEVERDI - OPERA DE VIENNE - 28 10 26 (3)

 La chronique et la vidéo d'Eléonore : 

ROLANDORFEO, Vienna - 28 10 2026

Due to the risk of falling into repetition, it is always a harder task to write for a second time about the same performance.

But when talking about Rolando, it's both yes and no. Harder to find new praising expressions and very easy to tell about the magnificence of his second Orfeo.

This was not just another immense and unforgettable opera evening - but a singing and acting magic offered by Rolando.

In my first chronicle I didn't tell about the very first surprises :

The enchantment began in the foyer of the Vienna State Opera, where a wedding invitation placard awaited the spectators entering the theater, and it continued in the auditorium where with their voices coming from "above", Orfeo and Euridice thanked us to be present and invited us to their wedding.

Before the beginning of the show, the members of the orchestra and the choir (as guests invited to the wedding) gathered for the ceremony in different parts of the auditorium, and the drums, too, made their entrance through the auditorium, with Monteverdi's majestic music played with grandeur, in a stately tempo.

Ascending in magnificent flow to me in the gallery, Rolando's voice, with its unparalleled, peerless beauty and its fantastic intensity offered a deepest emotional connection. It enveloped and embraced me tightly.

The quality of singing of the most beautiful and magic of all voices, its artistic expression are absolutely unique.

From the countless irresistible splendors of the voice, I now highlight just one :

"Addio terra, addio cielo e sole", sung with limitless beauty and emotions, and an ocean energy in the word "sole".

In the last moments of the opera, Orfeo holds the dead Euridice in his lap, while his other arm hangs down limply.

The curtain descends slowly ...

The most enormous success ! Long, warmest applause ! Standing ovations !

At the stage door, a musician (a lady, of course ...) told her colleague about Rolando : "He is so sweet"

KÖSZÖNÖM, ROLANDO !

Eléonore

La vidéo de Klari :