(31.01.2026) The review of Amfortas – Teatro Verdi: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Beatrice Venezi has imbued the production with a brilliant narrative flow
Beatrice Venezi imbued the show with a brilliant narrative pace and, despite some decibel-level exuberance—which is understandable in the context—she seemed at ease in a complex score that, as mentioned above, encompasses different genres and even ones stylistically distant from each other. Particularly successful, in my opinion, were the episodes in which the grotesque and irritating spirit of the music relies on comicively gloomy and funeralistic atmospheres…