I was there. And I saw and heard this year’s Salzburg
Festival’s highlight: Beautiful, powerful and sensitive. It was the most
wonderful opera singing that I have ever heard. Il Trovatore with Anna Netrebko, as Leonora. Some have compared her performance to Callas. Long may she
last and give us pleasure!
The production (Alvis Hermanis) was quite interesting and
makes clearer than anything I had seen before, that the gypsy Azucena is really the central tragic
figure in this opera. Perhaps the opera ought better be named after the gypsy
instead of after the troubadour.
ARTE will broadcast the Trovatore
production on Friday, 15 August, at 20:15 (CET). Try to watch it.
