The soprano is the first female singer in the great history of the opera house to offer an encore performance of an aria. On March 25, the audience in Las Palmas continued to applaud after her first act aria and repeatedly requested a so-called “Bis”, which was happily granted by the soprano, the conductor Francesco Ivan Ciampa and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria.

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Siri made her house debut with this production and is scheduled to sing Adriana in a new production at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino next month. The Uruguayan born, Italian naturalized singer is considered one of today’s leading sopranos of the Verdi, Puccini and Verismo repertoire and has risen to international fame after opening the 2016/17 season of the Teatro alla Scala in the title role of Madama Butterfly.

Besides Adriana Lecouvreur, the Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is staging Verdi’s Il trovatore and Macbeth, Rossini’s La Cenerentola as well as Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana this season.

Photo: Nacho González / Ópera de Las Palmas

Ercole Farnese

Nicola Lischi was one of the early contributors to Parterre Box in its very first paper issues. He has written for Parterre Box under his own name and as “Ercole Farnese”. As a very young boy, he was introduced to opera by his grandfather, who, in addition to allowing him to listen to his large recording collection, took Nicola to his first opera, “Attila” at the Teatro Comunale of Florence in 1972, conducted by Riccardo Muti and starring Leyla Gencer and Nicolai Ghiaurov. As a teenager and as young man Nicola studied voice with Gino Bechi, Rosetta Noli and Carlo Bergonzi. He took a special interest in the so-called bel-canto repertoire. After moving to the United States, he began reviewing in 1991 as a correspondent for several Italian publications and the most important Italian RAI radio program. He also worked as an artists manager for about ten years and is now working for an agency specialising in public relations and marketing for opera singers. He is no longer reviewing.

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