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Cavalleria Rusticana - National Theater mannheim

Mannheimer Morgen - 28. Februar 2012

 

Ein schmerzerfüllter Schrei durchdringt die aufgeregte Kampfszene einer zum Zerreißen gespannten Atmosphäre - alles Leid der Santuzza legt Maria Guleghina in dieses hohe C, mit dem sie spielend den Raum füllt. Für die erkrankte Waltraud Meier hätte das Nationaltheater beim "Festlichen Opernabend" am Sonntag keinen besseren Ersatz finden können. Die berühmte Sopranistin - längst Gast auf allen großen Bühnen der Welt - lässt das Publikum jede Facette des Unglücks der Hauptrolle aus Pietro Mascagnis "Cavalleria rusticana" spüren. Herzzerreißend und mit den mannigfaltigen Schattierungen ihrer geschmeidigen Stimme fleht sie ihren Liebhaber an, sie nicht zu verlassen, emphatisch gerät die Rache nach dessen Ablehnung. Dabei schöpft sie alle dynamischen Möglichkeiten aus: Mitreißend und ohne jede Spur der Forcierung erschüttert ihr Forte den Saal, und selbst das zarte Piano überstrahlt scheinbar mühelos das von Alois Seidlmeier dirigierte Orchester.

... unangefochtenen "Primadonna assoluta"...

 

http://www.morgenweb.de/nachrichten/kultur/20120228_mmm0000002935497.html

Wenn Russland zeigt, welche Singtalente in ihm stecken

Pique Dame - Alte Oper Frankfurt

FAZ 8, Februar 2012

 

"Maria Guleghina zauberte als Lisa mit kräftigen, klaren Soprantönen"

New York - Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco

operaclick.com

An opera like Verdi´s "Nabucco" needs a very strong cast, specially a soprano with a magnetic stage presence and a powerful voice that will do justice to the larger-than-life role of Abigaille. The MET had in soprano Maria Guleghina one of the best Abigailles of the last twenty years and, paired with the commanding Nabucco of Zeljko Lucic, this was a performance that did justice to Verdi's first masterpiece.....

.... Maria Guleghina is a force of nature when she sings a role such as Abigaille. Since the moment she enters the stage, you can't stop looking at her. She embodies the role both vocally and as an actress in such a way that you feel grateful to see such committment from a singer. She has blazing high Cs, Ds and even a high E at the end of the duet that caused an electrifying effect of Abigaille's desperation. Guleghina has the stamina to sing with lovely mezza voce and legato the aria "Chi s'avanza" and then turn into a tigress in the cabaletta "Salgo già del trono aurato...".
She also excelled in "Su me, morente, esanime".

Maria Guleghina brings Verdi’s ‘Nabucco’ back to the Met after 6-year absence

Nabucco - Metropolitan Opera

THE WASHINGTON POST

NEW YORK — Maria Guleghina walked to the front of the stage, blew kisses to the crowd over and over and kept tapping her right hand against her heart. A diva curtain call from the golden age.

The Ukrainian soprano returned to the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Verdi’s “Nabucco” as Abigaille on Tuesday night, a famously difficult role she sang when the staging debuted a decade ago. With penetrating, thrilling high notes, she dominated the entertaining revival and was rewarded with a standing ovation.

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Whether standing near the top of John Napier’s massive, rotating set in regal robes or running about like a warrior, Guleghina was commanding in a role sung at the La Scala premiere in 1842 by Giuseppina Strepponi, who later became Verdi’s second wife. This was a woman who loved power in a male-dominated society. If the pitch on some notes was uncertain, it was compensated by her ferocious intensity.

 

 

Worthy vocal moments in Met’s “Nabucco”

Nabucco - Metropolitan Opera

THE CLASSICAL REVIEW

Maria Guleghina sang Abigaille, a perennial role for her in this house, with great power and prowess, maneuvering between the coloratura passages and full-voice attacks with apparent ease. The Ukrainian soprano lacks beauty in her chest voice, unfortunately so, since the role has many moments of low-lying potential money notes.  Guleghina made up for it with dramatic intensity and sheer vocal power, enough to be convincing in the opening scene where she enters wielding a sword, and her pleading despair in her touching final scene.

'Festival della Melodia Belliniana' oltre 5000 spettatori

Norma - Taormina

LA REPUBBLICA - 09 settembre 2011

... - ha visto protagonista una straordinaria Maria Guleghina, al fianco di Aquiles Machado (Pollione) - ....

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