Dopo il successo dello scorso maggio al Metropolitan Opera House con Tosca, Daniela Dessì è tornata negli Stati Uniti per Madama Butterfly alla San Francisco Opera House. Il soprano è stata la protagonista dell’opera pucciniana nelle sei recite di novembre (5, 11, 14, 17, 21 e 27), nella produzione diretta da Julian Kovatchev e con la regia di José Maria Condemi. Nel cast anche Stefano Secco nel ruolo di Pinkerton, Daveda Karanas come Suzuki e Quinn Kelsey come Sharpless.
Considerata una delle migliori interpreti del repertorio pucciniano, Dessì ha interpretato il ruolo sui palcoscenici di Firenze, Verona, New York, Madrid, Milano, Palermo, Ancona, Torre del Lago, Vienna, Hannover e Belgrado, e nei teatri di Tokyo, Nagasaky, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya o Sapporo –essendo il primo soprano occidentale a interpretare il ruolo di Butterfly in queste città giapponesi.
Il suo debutto alla SFO risale invece al 1995, quando interpretò Donna Elvira nel Don Giovanni di Mozart.
La critica ha detto:
“Dessì, last heard here in 1995 as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, is a diva in the traditional mold: steely and resourceful in her tonal approach, stately and impassive theatrically. She got off to a powerful start in Act 1, singing with power and precision but also an air of quiet grace through the crowd scenes”.
Joshua Kosman - San Francisco Chronicle
“Dessì…was in control of her voice in the less spinto parts, and her pianissimos were delivered with astounding precision. Her ‘Vogliatemi bene’ was one of the highlights of the whole night: she whispered her lines in a heartbreaking manner”.
Marina Romani - Musical Criticism
“Dessi brought a true Italian spinto bravura to the role… this wonderful artist now adept at harboring her forces that she can sometimes unleash to supreme eff ect. Her ‘tu, tu, tu’ was a ravishing display of the Italianate style, and her suicide genuinely moving. The rhythmic exaggerations of her second act outpourings were exciting if musically untenable — this willfulness the prerogative of a real diva. Throughout the evening she nailed the essential high notes, if briefly, and achieved most other of Butterfly’s salient vocal points even though ‘un bel dì vedremo’ was mostly murmured”.
Capsur Opera
“She has a wonderful vulnerability that suits the part and her movements also conveyed the fragility and tenderness of Butterfly. Her ‘Un bel dì’ was pretty”.
The Classical Review
“Ms. Dessì has a soft voice that suggests Butterfly’s youth and fragility”.
Axel Feldheim, Not for fun only