Diana Damrau is “the ideal interpreter” of Lady Elvira in ‘I puritani’ at the Teatro Real
Jul 6, 2016
“Diana Damrau is the ideal interpreter of Elvira; with her rich and full voice she stands in the center of a peculiar polyphony, where there is little argument, because the drama is set in a purely vocal and musical stratosphere.”
{Diana Damrau es la intérprete ideal de Elvira; con su voz rica y plena se erige en el centro de una peculiar polifonía, donde el argumento cuenta poco, porque el drama se sitúa en una estratosfera puramente vocal y musical.}
“Diana Damrau was outstanding as Elvira. She is an ideal protagonist, perfectly suited to bel canto, and combines a beautiful voice with a refined technique and great ease at the top notes. Ms. Damrau is not the little bird who often tries to give life to Elvira, but a singer in full possession of her voice. She’s one of the most important lyric sopranos today, and the best of them all in this repertoire.”
José M. Irurzun – Seen and Heard International
“But the truth is that the cries exclaiming “bis” have been heard when the German Diana Damrau and he [Camarena] were cast into the embrace of the duet of reunion, and has been so exciting that both have skipped their tears but decided not succumb to the temptation to repeat the thrilling scene.
Damrau, who is brilliant, and has been recognized as such by the public, stood in her role as a woman in love who goes mad upon learning betrayed and in which, as in Lord Arthur, it seems that the recitatives never end but they prove essential to supporting a studied and complex musicality.”
{Pero lo cierto es que los gritos reclamando el “bis” se han oído cuando la alemana Diana Damrau y él se han fundido en el abrazo del dueto del reencuentro, y ha sido tan emocionante que a ambos se les han saltado las lágrimas aunque han decidido no sucumbir a la tentación de repetir la estremecedora pieza.
Damrau ha estado brillante, y así se lo ha reconocido el público, puesto en pie, en su papel de mujer enamorada que se vuelve loca al saberse traicionada y en el que, como en el de lord Arturo, parece que los recitativos no acaban nunca pero que se revelan fundamentales para sostener una estudiada y compleja musicalidad.}
“As Elvira, the magnificent Diana Damrau impresses first with her naivete and, later, with her madness of absolute love, the raving bride left at the altar that completely lost the proceedings before both pain and doubts when finally reuniting with Arturo occurs.”
{Igual que Elvira, una magnifica Diana Damrau, impresiona primero con su candidez y, más tarde, con su absoluta locura de amor, sus desvaríos de novia abandonada en el altar que pierde por completo el juicio ante tanto dolor y sus dudas, cuando por fin se produce el reencuentro con Arturo.}
Alicia Huerta – El Imparcial