{"id":44479,"date":"2018-02-27T00:25:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T04:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=44479"},"modified":"2018-03-02T04:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T08:02:40","slug":"margaine-tezier-find-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=44479","title":{"rendered":"Margaine, T\u00e9zier Find Favor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By ANDREW POWELL
Published: February 27, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

MUNICH \u2014 Sometimes the revival has the better cast. So it was for La Favorite<\/em> at Bavarian State Opera<\/a> on Sunday, when Giacomo Sagripanti<\/a>, Cl\u00e9mentine Margaine<\/a> and Ludovic T\u00e9zier<\/a> made more sense of the music than their counterparts in the 2016 production\u2019s first run (a Deutsche Grammophon DVD<\/a>) \u2014 conductor Sagripanti instilling new urgency and sweep, Margaine singing magnificently as L\u00e9onor, T\u00e9zier\u2019s Alphonse resonant and incisive. Matthew Polenzani<\/a> and Mika Kares<\/a> reprised their monastic duties as Fernand and Balthazar, Kares with impressive control of line. Much applause. It was, though, a night to listen rather than look because Am\u00e9lie Niermeyer<\/a>\u2019s morally confused, for-the-camera staging serves neither the historical characters nor Donizetti\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Photo \u00a9 Wilfried H\u00f6sl<\/p>\n

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