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Amazon. com: Verdi: Les Vepres Siciliennes (DVD): Lianna Haroutounian, Bryan Hymel, Michael Volle, Erwin Schrott, Antonio Pappano, Stefan Herheim: Movies & TVVerdi's 1. ![]() Composed between La Traviata and the first version of Simon Boccanegra, and first performed in 1. Meyerbeer's Parisian grand operas is unquestionably mature Verdi, but it's rarely heard today. ENO put it on in 1. Mark Elder and directed by John Dexter, but the Royal Opera's new staging is its first, and an ambitious and generally highly successful way to mark the Verdi bicentenary this month. It's the first time, too, that a production by the much admired Norwegian director Stefan Herheim has been seen here. Together with designer Philipp F. Erwin Schrott as Jean Procida and Lianna Haroutounian as H. Vepres Siciliennes Review30 et 31 mars 1282 : les V. Celle-ci tombe pour plusieurs si ![]() Photograph: Tristram Kenton. The reworking doesn't solve all the opera's dramatic problems, and it can do little about the creaky dramaturgy of the final act, when the action hangs fire for far too long, and Verdi didn't come up with enough top- quality music to justify those longueurs. The director Stefan Herheim made his highly anticipated British debut with Verdi’s sprawling “V. By ZACHARY WOOLFE OCT. A rare opportunity to see Verdi’s great opera, brought to the Royal Opera House for the first time in an imaginative new staging by Stefan Herheim. But the production contains many arresting images and imaginative glosses right from the prelude, when the events that preceded the start of the opera are presented. The half- hour long ballet in the third act, which was de rigueur for shows at the Op. The significance of a winged cherub marshalling the chorus in the final act escaped me, so did the reason for having Erwin Schrott's Procida, the leader of the uprising against the French, change into a ballgown before the final massacre begins. But as a way of creating a cogent dramatic package out of what is sometimes sprawling and diffuse material it works very well indeed, and Antonio Pappano does a magnificent job in sustaining the spans of each act, seizing on every chance to bring the score to life; the choruses, especially have a blazing immediacy. Both Michael Volle as Montfort, the French governor and Bryan Hymel as Henri, the son that Montfort fathered when he raped a local woman, are tirelessly superb . But after an impressive start in her opening aria, Lianna Haroutounian's H. ![]()
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