Anita Rachvelishvili's Amneris stood out elevated above the entire cast. The Georgian singer showed off a lush timbre, very rich in harmonics and she sketched thus a magnetic Amneris, around which the whole performance revolved.
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The Georgian Mezzo-Soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, who sings the role of the powerful pharoah's daughter Amneris, was delighted to take part in this new version under Chailly's guidance.
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The revelation of the evening was the Amneris of Anita Rachvelishvili, a mezzo-soprano with contralto shades that saturated the whole piazza.
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The Greek National Opera swings back into action and inaugurates the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports initiative “All of Greece, One Culture,” with a solo recital by Anita Rachvelishvili that will take place at the Roman Agora of Athens on 18 July 2020, at 20:30 (GMT+3). The leading mezzo-soprano of our time, with her impressive voice and imposing presence, returns to Greece to sing popular arias from operas by Verdi, Cilea, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, in this evocative archaeological site at the foot of the Acropolis of Athens.
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Beloved by opera audiences around the world, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana is an impassioned story of tormented love wrapped in music of fervent vibrancy. Riccardo Muti, whose command of 19th-century Italian opera is “virtually without peer” (Bachtrack), leads concert performances of the complete one-act opera with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and an international cast.
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The second part of the evening was also on a very high level: Anita Rachvelishvili unveils the drama of a betrayed and disgraced woman, who had lost everything just because she had been in love with a man. The way she controls her voice is very impressive: powerful like a storm which destroys everything on its way, but also capable of light and caressing notes, as in "Inneggiamo il Signor non é morto."
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