Moving, 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).”
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Maestro Riccardo Muti expressed his admiration for the Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, who will sing the very demanding role of Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rusticana" with CSY under the baton of Riccardo Muti.
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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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Finally, cats out of the bags: Anita Rachvelishvili is recording her second CD with Sony Classical. The recording session has taken place in Anita's hometown Tbilisi. For this occasion, a stellar team of professionals came to Georgia.
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In 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.
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The 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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