Yesterday morning in Cremona: compact and light blue of the sky of September, the pink stone of the old buildings, the sound malchiuse violins from windows, my steps as I go on the cobbles at the Teatro Ponchielli for the first test Trovatore . Very few people walking, some Cycling. The trees still full of leaves and red ocher. The music of Trovatore can not arise from different source that these walls craquelées matured and that the porphyry within the commissures which sprout a thousand herbs capricious: the music is in the air, in the shadows, in the arcades, but in a speech bit 'large, flavors, shimmering in the halls of the theater, and two steps away, working in the shops. When you Italian music in American theaters all this harmony is flaked, it must be recovered back, or, in the Latin sense, to pretend. The solitude of the morning, the stench of coffee, fresh air on his cheeks are shaved just a promesse de bonheur, warning of atmospheres and sounds of Verdi, the prodrome of the universe at night, the flamboyant and gracious Trovatore.
There are all singers, but the baritone. I see Oksana Dyka with which I had prepared Leonora in Kiev in August. He did not forget anything and even he has deepened his style. Hong Di Francesco, the first Manrico, I knew he had a "do" great, but even more amazing is the flexibility, softness, the ability to accept and implement all the infinite number of signals introverted nature (as pre-Don Carlo!) Of that guy "desert on earth": that is, the pianissimo, the expressive, the mezzavoce, the cantabile, legato.
the evening at Piacenza. Concerto with Toscanini, the beautiful Municipal , a jeweler in the early nineteenth century. Excellent acoustics, which allows many dynamic games not even imagined in the test. Albanian Joseph, who has the solo part in Second Concerto of Shostakovich, is a formidable virtuoso but also shows off the taste of the sound, the deliberations of the simple and sad melody that runs through and innervates the Sarabande of the second half. He has a great success, and makes a wonderful Scriabin as an encore. Like so much that I sit on the podium and the rest in the middle of the orchestra to listen to him (never done before). I'll be back in Milan by car in the night (the rain helps to stay awake) with the obsession of 7 / 8 by Shostakovich in the head. After the concerts, I never sleep before 6 am or 7 am, but I'll have to get up early for tests Trovatore at the Dal Verme. Two chapters in the history of my life Casanova (livre de my bedside for two weeks), and fall asleep.
There are all singers, but the baritone. I see Oksana Dyka with which I had prepared Leonora in Kiev in August. He did not forget anything and even he has deepened his style. Hong Di Francesco, the first Manrico, I knew he had a "do" great, but even more amazing is the flexibility, softness, the ability to accept and implement all the infinite number of signals introverted nature (as pre-Don Carlo!) Of that guy "desert on earth": that is, the pianissimo, the expressive, the mezzavoce, the cantabile, legato.
the evening at Piacenza. Concerto with Toscanini, the beautiful Municipal , a jeweler in the early nineteenth century. Excellent acoustics, which allows many dynamic games not even imagined in the test. Albanian Joseph, who has the solo part in Second Concerto of Shostakovich, is a formidable virtuoso but also shows off the taste of the sound, the deliberations of the simple and sad melody that runs through and innervates the Sarabande of the second half. He has a great success, and makes a wonderful Scriabin as an encore. Like so much that I sit on the podium and the rest in the middle of the orchestra to listen to him (never done before). I'll be back in Milan by car in the night (the rain helps to stay awake) with the obsession of 7 / 8 by Shostakovich in the head. After the concerts, I never sleep before 6 am or 7 am, but I'll have to get up early for tests Trovatore at the Dal Verme. Two chapters in the history of my life Casanova (livre de my bedside for two weeks), and fall asleep. 
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