22-11-2009
Mozart, Don Giovanni: (Premiere)

Soloists, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. Coro de la Ópera de Oviedo.Conductor: Pablo González. Teatro Campoamor de Oviedo. 22.11.2009
SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL OPERA REVIEW

Mozart,  Don Giovanni: (Premiere) Soloists, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. Coro de la Ópera de Oviedo.Conductor: Pablo González. Teatro Campoamor de Oviedo. 22.11.2009 (JMI)

Co-production Opera de Oviedo and Theater Magdeburg.
Direction: Alfred Kirchner.

Sets: Alfred Kirchner and Ulrich Schulz.

Costumes: María Elena Amos.

Lighting: Alfred Kirchner.

Cast:

Don Giovanni: Bo Skovhus.

Leporello: Simón Orfila.

Donna Anna: Cinzia Forte.

Donna Elvira: Lioba Braun.

Don Ottavio: Antonio Lozano.

Zerlina: Ainhoa Garmendia.

Commendatore: Felipe Bou.

Masetto: Joan Martín-Royo.

[…]The Asturian conductor Pablo González, who will be the next musical director of Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona, was making his debut during in this Oviedo season. He is certainly one of the most promising conductors in Spain, although his career was interrupted by health problems a few years ago. His reading of Don Giovanni was full of energy, maintaining the dramatic tension at all times, and yet able to be very flexible in the more comic moments of the opera. Don Giovanni is one of the most difficult operas to conduct and Mr González was particularly successful in this task. The orchestra gave a good performance, significantly better than on previous occasions in this theatre.
[…]
Maestor Pablo González received a particularly warm reception and the creative team was applauded without a single boo from the audience.

José M Irurzun

Mozart,  Don Giovanni: (Premiere) Soloists, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. Coro de la Ópera de Oviedo.Conductor: Pablo González. Teatro Campoamor de Oviedo. 22.11.2009 (JMI)

Co-production Opera de Oviedo and Theater Magdeburg.
Direction: Alfred Kirchner.

Sets: Alfred Kirchner and Ulrich Schulz.

Costumes: María Elena Amos.

Lighting: Alfred Kirchner.

Cast:

Don Giovanni: Bo Skovhus.

Leporello: Simón Orfila.

Donna Anna: Cinzia Forte.

Donna Elvira: Lioba Braun.

Don Ottavio: Antonio Lozano.

Zerlina: Ainhoa Garmendia.

Commendatore: Felipe Bou.

Masetto: Joan Martín-Royo.

[…]The Asturian conductor Pablo González, who will be the next musical director of Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona, was making his debut during in this Oviedo season. He is certainly one of the most promising conductors in Spain, although his career was interrupted by health problems a few years ago. His reading of Don Giovanni was full of energy, maintaining the dramatic tension at all times, and yet able to be very flexible in the more comic moments of the opera. Don Giovanni is one of the most difficult operas to conduct and Mr González was particularly successful in this task. The orchestra gave a good performance, significantly better than on previous occasions in this theatre.
[…]

Maestor Pablo González received a particularly warm reception and the creative team was applauded without a single boo from the audience. […]

José M Irurzun