Showing posts with label amsterdam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amsterdam. Show all posts

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Luca Pisaroni: The Complete Package

[Photo by Marty Sohl]


There are a number of barihunks who as individuals are worth the price of admission. Simon Keenlyside, Mariusz Kwiecien and Erwin Schrott certainly come to mind as singers who look good, are great actors and are also amazing singers. There are lesser known barihunks like Kyle Ketelsen, Wes Mason, Kelly Markgraf and Randal Turner who we feel also deliver the complete package night in and night out. However, if there is one barihunk who probably already belongs in a class with Keenlyside, Kwiecien and Schrott it is Luca Pisaroni.

His recent video of Ercole that we featured is a tour de force and he may already be one of the ten best exponents of Mozart in the world today. Period. Here are three clips of this gifted young singer performing Mozart, so that you can judge for yourself. Few singers can bring these characters to life like Pisaroni and his vocal nuances are nothing short of phenomenal.

Apparently, opera houses are recognizing his gifts as a Mozartean, as his schedule includes a current run of Figaro in Amsterdam, Leporello at Glyndebourne this summer, Figaro in San Francisco this fall and then the Count in Houston early next year. If you can make it to any of these performances, we guarantee that you will be in for a real treat.

Luca Pisaroni sings Figaro's "Aprite un po' gli occhi"


Maite Beaumont as Dorabella and Luca Pisaroni as Guglielmo sing "Il cuore vi dono" from "Così fan tutte"


Luca Pisaroni sings Figaro's "Se vuol ballare"

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Friday, November 14, 2008

Listen to Philip Cutlip Live


It's not the same as watching him live, but you can listen to barihunk Philip Cutlip on Saturday, November 15th at 8:15 AM EST/5:15 PST at http://www.radio4.nl/page/home




If you can't listen to the broadcast, I would recommend buying his recording of Handel's Atalanta with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. You can listen to it for free here:

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Donizetti's "Venti Scudi" from L'elisir d'amore


Another video has been posted of the Hot Pole Mariusz Kwiecien singing in his disco see-through shirt from a performance of L'elisir d'amore in Amsterdam in 2002. To hear how his voice has grown, listen to him sing the duet with Juan Diego Flores on the latter's new CD.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Mariusz Kwiecien IS the Elixir of Love

Here is a shot of the Hot Pole Mariusz Kwiecien in an updated production of the Elixir of Love. I believe that this production is from Amsterdam.