Violeta Urmana – La forza del destino – Opéra Bastille
Leonora par excellence
Violeta Urmana sings La forza del destino at the Opéra Bastille in a new production
The part of Leonora was one of the first that Violeta Urmana sang after her graduation to soprano, and it has become one of her leading roles, which she first sang in London in 2004 and embodied with equal success in Munich, Berlin, Florence, Vienna and her Lithuanian homeland’s capital city of Vilnius
. Violeta Urmana was named a “brilliant heroine” in La forza del destino by Corriere della Sera, which praised her “excellent technique in the pursuit of complete emotional intensity”, while the British magazine Opera described her as an “excellent Leonora”, not least for the famous aria “Pace, pace, mio Dio!”, “delivered with intense emotion ..
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Verdi’s complicated opera faces all its participants with exacting challenges, and it is Leonora’s very complexity that Violeta Urmana finds particularly attractive. “Human intimacy has to be portrayed against the background of war and the musical tableaux of the opera.”
When the soprano brings this part to the Opéra Bastille in Paris in November and December, she will be closing the year 2011 as she began it (in Un ballo in maschera and Macbeth): with her favourite composer, Giuseppe Verdi.
This new production, conducted by Philippe Jordan and directed by Jean-Claude Auvray, sees Violeta Urmana returning to the Paris operatic stage after her acclaimed Lady Macbeth of 2009. Alongside Marcelo Alvarez, Vladimir Stoyanov and Kwangchul Youn, she will be singing one of the pivotal roles of her career as a dramatic soprano and interpreting one of the most demanding of all Verdi’s characters, to profile herself as one of the leading female artists of our time in this repertoire.
Performances at Opera de Bastille, Paris: November 14, 17, 20, 23, 26 and 29, December 2, 5, 8, 11, 15 and 17
By: Ruth Wischmann
