Comedy without unnecessary buffalo. Mozart’s Opera Figaro Wedding live from New York / Day

This show debuts by German conductor Joana Malvica at the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. At the beginning of the Conductor’s Career in 2012 and 2013, Richard Wagner, under the leadership of the Latvian National Opera Rhine gold and The gods of the godsas well as Mozart Don Juan. Joana Malvica has also conducted a chamber orchestra in Latvia Kremerata Baltica. She is currently a Berlin Concert Hall/Konzerthaus Musical director of the orchestra, previously conducting the Erfurt Theater and the Nuremberg State Theater.

International recognition for Joana Malvica was provided by the outstanding, strict pandemic restrictions, the Mozart’s Opera COSI FAN TUTTE Production at the 2020 Salzburg Festival, later in Salzburg she conducted Mozarta Magic flute (In both performances, Joan Malvica came to the conductor’s desktop of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra). At the beginning of March this year, she first conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

The conductor’s approach to the score is always characterized by lightness and dramatism, clarity and seriousness. Joana Malvica is 39 years old and has twenty years of work experience in the music theater, and it is in the opera that she feels at home – she can work with both the orchestra and the singers, who are always treated sensitive and supportive.

Conductor Joana Malvica for the first time conducts the show at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo – Sima Degani

Figaro’s wedding Spectators will have the opportunity to hear great soloists: American bass baritone Michael Samyel (Figaro), Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchinsk (Suzanna), Canadian Baritone Josho Hopkins (Count Almaviva), Italian Soprano Federica Lombardi (County) (Kerubino). Figaro at the wedding They all sing for the first time at the metropolitan Opera, thus providing fresh, sparkling energy for the production. Director Richard Eira’s Mozart Opera is a classic performance that has been moved from the 1930s to the 1930s – a period before the Civil War in Spain. This production has been in the repertoire of the Metropolitan Opera since 2014.

Critics praise the performance of Michael Samjuel and Olga Kulchinsk – their heroes interact with each other and with other characters. Michael Samjuel is charismatic Figaro, his singing has a lightness and is a natural comic actor. Olga Kulchinsky in Suzanna’s image is characterized not only by girls’ness but also by warm humor and emotional depth. Joshua Hopkins’ Count is vital and stupid, but plays without unnecessary buffalo. Federica Lombardi in the image of Countess subtly and wisely portrays a portrait of a woman in a crisis that has fallen into a crisis. The singer has extensive experience in Mozart’s music, and she captivates the elegant flow of her voice and the splendor of the tone. Federica Lombardi reveals the role’s essence without any sentimentality, and her county demonstrates the posture of the aristocracy.

In the record of the show Figaro’s wedding cinema Forum Cinemas You will be able to watch April 30 at 18.30.