Verdi’s vibrant masterpiece Rigoletto is presently being staged on the Liceu in Barcelona. Musica caught up with French tenor Benjamin Bernheim.
Exuberant and minimalistic, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto is a darkish drama filled with well-known melodies like La Donna è Cellular. On this newest incarnation of the Italian composer's tour de pressure, French tenor Benjamin Bernheim is debuting on the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
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"It is a masterpiece. And amongst all of the operas of Verdi that I do know, I actually really feel that that is essentially the most full but additionally untouchable, as a result of every thing is sensible. All the pieces has an significance, each be aware, each bar,” Bernheim explains.
He provides: “We have now three, could also be not explicit colors, however palettes of various colors...how heat it's for Rigoletto, how elegant and smug it's for the duke and the candy and exquisite like a blooming flower Gilda.”
"a psychological thriller...about dying, love and self-sacrifice"
Rigoletto centres on a strong duke, a court docket jester and his beloved and overprotected daughter. When Gilda falls in love with the Duca di Mantua, tragedy takes its course.
“Rigoletto can be a psychological thriller that may all the time stay related, as a result of it's about dying, about love and self-sacrifice and in regards to the thirst for energy,” Russian Soprano Olga Peretyatko says.
Magic moments with a strong solid
Bernheim loves his arias, however the position of Rigoletto is a posh one: a infamous womaniser who falls in love and suffers deeply when his object of need is kidnapped.
“There's something very candy on this man who really is a liar, a manipulator. There's something that isn't in his management. One thing was taken from him and he is actually afraid, and never just for him, he is afraid for her,” says Bernheim.
Summing up, Peretyatko tells us in regards to the camaraderie among the many solid: “We’re such a robust group, [we’re] individuals who don’t wish to entice all the eye, as if we have been alone and the others have been simply followers, however we're one group and that is nice.”
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