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Il Tabarro af Giacomo Puccini
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Daily Telegraph
Rupert Christiansen, Friday 23 April 2004
Whatever one's specific reservations, Opera North's one-act opera season is
emerging as the most exciting big idea that any company in Britain has sprung
for years. It's encouraging that audiences seem to be relishing the experiment
and the new places they are being taken to.
David Pountney's fine production moves the action away from the Zolaesque world
of the Parisian canals to a seedy all-night container terminal. It's an
environment in which Giorgetta and Michele's dead-end marriage looks all too
plausible....
Nina Pavolvski's wiry and forceful soprano is well-suited to verismo, Jonathan
Summers made a pathetically grizzled old dog of a Michele, and Leonardo Capalbo
certainly looked the part of the toyboy Luigi...Martin Andre's conducting was
alert to all the score's theatricality as well as its luscious romanticism.
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The Independent
Anthony Arblaster, Wednesday 28 April 2004
Anyone who thinks that Italian opera is "all the same" should make a point of
experiencing the juxtaposition of the second two pieces in Opera North's season
of short operas.
The Rossini is fast and fizzy, light and exuberant, the Puccini dark, brooding,
full of tension and melancholy. Il Tabarro is the least performed of Puccini's
Trittico, but on the basis of this powerful production and performance, it has a
good claim to be considered the best.
Three strong idiomatic performances lie at the core of this production. As the
lovers Nina Pavlovski and Leonardo Capalbo sing with Italianate passion and
elegance, while Jonathan Summers as the pipe-smoking husband is powerful and
moving, and frightening at the climax...and Martin Andre achieved an excellent
balance of sound from the orchestra. Director David Pountney was back on good
form.
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The Sunday Telegraph
Michael Kennedy, Sunday 25 April 2004
Best of the first quartet in ever respect is Il tabarro…Giorgetta and Luigi were
lustrously sung…by the Danish Nina Pavlovski and the American Leonardo Caplabo,
but the memorable performance was Jonathan Summers’s grizzled and tragic
Michele...thanks also to Martin Andre's well-paced conducting.
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Guardian
Alfred Hickling, Friday 23 April 2004
Opera North's single-act opera season is all about satisfying combinations, and
this rare pairing of a bleak verismo piece with a burlesque farce sits like a
well-pulled pint of Guinness: the Puccini black, deep and bitter with a creamy
head of Rossinian froth on top.
Nina Pavlovski gives a scintillating account of the heroine Giorgetta, her tone
blooming and bold but never strident. The striking young tenor Leonardo Capalbo
smoulders impressively as her lover Luigi, but is no match for the sombre
intensity of Jonathan Summers's Michele, shrouded in an old tarpaulin rather
than a cloak, his baritone rich in bitter undertones.
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Yorkshire Post
David Denton, Friday 23 April 2004
The cast, vocally and visually, is ideal. Jonathan Summer’s aging and
world-weary barge owner absolutely superb in his two big arias…his diction was
admirable even when riding the powerful orchestral passages to create a vivid
picture of the torment he was suffering. Nina Pavlovski has the passion in her
voice to create the wife who longs for the big world she never sees, her hope of
freedom resting in the handsome stevedore Luigi. It was a part that proved
perfect for the young tenor, Leonardo Capalbo, his voice liquid right at the top
of the range.
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