Mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, hailed by Muti as “the greatest mezzo-soprano of today,” as Santuzza; baritone Luca Salsi as Alfio; mezzo-soprano Ronnita Miller as Lucia, Alfio’s mother; mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke as Lola, Alfio’s wife, and Alessandra Visconti as a villager.
Read MoreA stratospheric vocal performance in the role of Azucena from Anita Rachvelishvili, whose sonorous voice of impressive expressiveness renders with remarkable sensitivity all the nuances of a very complex character, that fluctuates between bloodthirsty brutality and touching maternal love. Her “Stride la vampa” and later “Condotta ella era in ceppi” were much applauded by a truly exhilarated audience.
Read MoreThe centrepoint of the album is music by a Georgian composer; Rachvelishvili had done something similar on her previous, debut, album on Sony in which she had introduced music by another internationally neglected composer from that territory.
Read MoreMoving, heart-wrenching and intense. Anita Rachvelishvili was all that and more Thursday evening in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s concert realization of Pietro Mascagni’s one-act opera, “Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry).”
Read MoreIn 2019, it is the Princess Eboli of Anita Rachvelishvili (her debut in this role) which fascinated the public of Bastille. We have already praised the Georgian mezzo-soprano, her breathtaking power, her vocal beauty and expressiveness in the music of Verdi as of Saint-Saens, Bizet or Rimsky-Korsakov. Eboli is an intimidating, scary role, but Rachvelishvili is dealing with it without any difficulties, she even eclipses Elīna Garanča, who was a splendid Eboli in the fall of 2017.
Read MoreThe whole cast was dominated by Anita Rachvelishvili, who portrayed the role of the Princess Eboli with her impressive instrumental capacities, which alone filled in the gigantic hall of the Opera Bastille.
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