{"id":15874,"date":"2024-08-15T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=15874"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:17:12","slug":"review-solid-cast-stolid-mozart-at-ravinia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-solid-cast-stolid-mozart-at-ravinia\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Solid Cast, Stolid Mozart at Ravinia"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Musical America<\/a><\/p>\n

By Hannah Edgar<\/p>\n

Matthew Polenzani. Tamara Wilson. Samantha Hankey. Andrea Carroll.<\/p>\n

Those names aren\u2019t off a Met marquee. They comprised the principal cast of Ravinia\u2019s Idomeneo<\/em>, directed by James Conlon in a concert version at the Ravinia Festival\u2019s Martin Theater. \u201cMozart in the Martin,\u201d as the series is branded, has been a trademark of Conlon\u2019s since he was music director of the festival from 2005 to 2015. Over the years he and the Chicago Symphony have cavorted through the Da Ponte trilogy, The Magic Flute<\/em>, and The Abduction from the Serail<\/em>, all with the top-flight casting you\u2019d expect at an international opera house. Nor has the requisite concert setting deterred Conlon from presenting Mozart\u2019s more esoteric operas.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, he led La clemenza di Tito<\/em>; even Idomeneo<\/em>, long a rarity, isn\u2019t a Ravinia first, with Conlon and the CSO having tackled it in 2012.<\/p>\n

…this Idomeneo<\/em> was full of splendors. Polenzani was exquisitely cast in the title role, his signature brassy tenor capable of shrinking to a delicate tendril and swelling back again. His acting was also far more compelling than it was last year in La clemenza di Tito<\/em>, relaying the depths of Idomeneo\u2019s anguish and the fevered intensity of his rage with potent immediacy.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The entire evening ran a tight three hours: Conlon wisely cut the ballets and placed a short intermission halfway through Act II, after Idomeneo\u2019s \u201cFuor del mar.\u201d Hearteningly, the Martin was well-sold\u2014a challenge in other bookings this season, and for Conlon\u2019s 2022 Mozart diptych. May it be so every year. Even on an off day, audiences would be hard-pressed to hear a better-cast Mozart this side of New York.<\/p>\n

Read the full review.<\/a><\/p>\n

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From Musical America By Hannah Edgar Matthew Polenzani. Tamara Wilson. Samantha Hankey. Andrea Carroll. Those names aren\u2019t off a Met marquee. They comprised the principal cast of Ravinia\u2019s Idomeneo, directed by James Conlon in a concert version at the Ravinia Festival\u2019s Martin Theater. \u201cMozart in the Martin,\u201d as the series is branded, has been a … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3613,4401,4109,3705,5574,3612],"class_list":["post-15874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conductor","tag-james-conlon","tag-mozart","tag-opera","tag-ravinia","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15876,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions\/15876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}