1/18/2023 0 Comments Verdi opera fifth century![]() Giovanni Battista Parodi has a sonorous bass voice and is a charismatic presence, there will be inevitable comparisons to Samuel Ramey(who IS Attila) but on his own terms giving a fair chance Parodi comes off extremely effectively. The orchestra and chorus all turn in enthusiastic and beautiful playing and singing, while Andrea Battistoni's conducting is tight and allows the drama and musicality of the score to come out. It is really in the musical values though where the production excels. However, the production is very nicely shot and recorded, with the costumes and sets generally well-designed and not too ugly. Attila's Predator-like helmet is also a rather strange sight. The projected images were quite nice-looking and did work in the second scene prologue and some others, but there are other scenes where they weren't as effective and rather unnecessary. What does bring it down is that the staging is a little too cramped-looking and occasionally clumsy, and more space would have made it less of a problem. ![]() While the Samuel Ramey/Cheryl Studer production is superior, this Busetto 'Attila' is very good and towards the better end of the "Tutto Verdi" series. But it has some lovely music- Ezio's "E Gettata La Mia Sorte" is the most familiar to me- and deserves to be better known. ![]() 'Attila' doesn't see the best of Verdi, and dramatically is not his most concise ('Otello' or 'Rigoletto'). ![]()
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