Guth Tito at Glyndebourne 2017
- YES! Tito returns and not in that tilted floor production from ~1990.
- Oh, dear
godGuth, please let it be half good – and no additional characters, thanksbye. - Mantra: decent Sesto, decent Sesto, decent Sesto… After the mega neurotic Nerone in Vienna I’m afraid to think too much about this. Also who. Just not EG, KL or Carmen Tancredi, please ye gods above and below.
- Alice Coote is Vitellia, which is an interesting thought, although that really scuppers my Sesto hopes.
edit: now that we know Sesto is Kate Lindsey, let’s remember how that worked out last time:
PS: thanks to Giulia and Baroque Bird for the prompt alert 😀
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Posted on May 3, 2016, in 1001 musings on la clemenza di tito, glyndebourne, mozart and tagged claus guth, glyndebourne, la clemenza di tito, mozart. Bookmark the permalink. 27 Comments.
opera, innit? 
wow, i thought you were joking w/ A.Coote as Vitellia! that’d be something! since you have the switch from trouser to underpants, the carmentancredi sounds like a match 😉
hey! don’t even joke about carmentancredi :-O haha, the horror. It’s kinda funny, I thought the next big name mezzo Vitellia was going to be JDD and yet Coote sneaks it from her. I wonder how she’ll cope with the highs.
they’re gonna have A at 350Hz 😉 (and then you can get a contralto Sesto!!) we all know Carmen_Tancredi loves chest notes!
where would that put Publio then, in the basement?
switch to soprano role! (same way they swap out a soprano for a bass in La Monnaie’s Mitridate’s Arbate!)
And Tito is now a bass
You know, Publio is a soprano in the Gluck version of Tito 😀
edit: I’m wrong, it’s a castrato/CT. Tito is a soprano in Caldara.
ps- you know P.Domingo has been dying to sing Tito but his “baritone” voice couldn’t fit until now…
hey, Papa Domingo is fine 😉 I always thought it was weird that he’s sung Idomeneo.
i almost flipped mis-reading he sung Idamante!
don’t give him ideas! although I almost wrote Idamante 😀
this would be a Tito worth flying over to see! Carmen_Tancredi alone is worth 1/2 the flight tix!
in that outfit, too.
i’m still laughing thinking about this… the moment you said “Carmen” everything made sense!
I know, in my mind she will always be linked to this performance. It’s so bizarre! And with Minkowski looking like it’s the most natural thing…
after my very recent C_T Sesto experience, I add my prayers to that.
God, no.
Coote may be able to act for three, but she is better with an actual stage partner (that Vitellia will be something to write home about either way – JDD meanwhile seems to gear up for Adalgisa NOT opposite Anna N. stateside. I will disappointed if there won’t be massive subtext).
…also, wasn’t KL announced meanwhile?
I’ll have to live with KL, the lesser evil of the three. I hope she got a bit better since Paris. She has the eyecandy part covered, I’m not complaining about that but I want someone who can actually act the part (and not muddle the coloratura either). I’ve seen her three times, she’s entertaining (eyecandy first and foremost and can do physical stuff) but I didn’t get a true depth from her yet. We’ll see if Coote can galvanise her a bit. Seems a bit of an odd match (kinda like with Gauvin).
JDD is best in belcanto anyway, so that shall be good. Not with AN? Even better 😀
Here’s the (not quite) full cast: Steve Davislim (Tito), Alice Coote (Vitellia), Kate Lindsey (Sesto), Joélle Harvey (Servilia)
noooooooooooooo, Kate Lindsey!
I’m going to be the cheerful person going against everyone else and say, yay, Kate Lindsey! 😀 I like Kate Lindsey. I’ve argued with Dehgg about her before. I think she’s adorable, although before the hordes rush at me, I’m not quite sure how she’ll tackle the gravity of Sesto… but (cautiously) she might surprise us…?
The dynamic with Coote is going to be a little odd, it’s true: I’m already imagining Vitellia eating Sesto alive.
This might be one worth making an effort to go to, although considering it’s Guth it’s likely to be weird (she says, based on expansive experience of one opera that he’s directed). Hmm. Save our pennies and go for a picnic, Dehgg?
definitely picnic 😀 well, I don’t hate KL but she’s not my kind of Sesto.
Thanks for the heads up about this (I am gradually returning to the blogosphere. A Guth Tito is going to be interesting at least and possible very good. Althouygh… would it be too much to ask for someone to revive the Kusej version from Salzburg?
Hopefully this is one that Glyndebourne will let this one be streamed somewhere.
P.S, In the discussion about dropping the pitch, I immediately went to Luca Pisaroni as Tito. (“how surprising.” said absolutely no one)
Clearly, I need to proofread my posts before posting them. Sorry about all the typos and extra words and such. (Or I need to post in the light of day rather than in the dark of night.)
Hard to see how the Kusej could be mounted anywhere other than the Felsenreitschule.
why not bring it back there, if they had a similarly good team?
Good point; there is a production that definitely is tailored to the space. That said, with some new blocking, I am sure Marty could make it work in a traditional proscenium environment. As long as the personenregie…well he’s gotten weirder since then, no doubt… hmmm at least we have the DVD!!
how surprising indeed 😀 but you have my vote.
good to see you back! I was wondering how you were.
we’ll see what happens, Guth is always surprising if nothing else. At least he can’t take the comedy out of this one as there’s none 😉 and it tends to get better the darker it is.
don’t we all dream of the Kusej production making a comeback? Though over the years I have convinced myself that it would be annoying to see in the house, due to its massiveness.
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