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MICHELE KALMANDI<br />
baritone - baritono<br />
In the Photo: Opera Gala at Bratislava Opera, December 2010
The singing is my way…<br />
Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i<br />
MICHELE KALMANDI<br />
baritone<br />
my favourite photos<br />
MICHELE CALMANDI
W h e r e i s t h e s t a g e ,<br />
o u t s i d e o r i n ,<br />
G e n t l e m e n a n d l a d i e s ?<br />
W e l o o k a t e a c h o t h e r ,<br />
W e t e l l o u r t a l e s .<br />
W h o k n o w s , w h e r e w e b r o u g h t<br />
t h e m f r o m ?<br />
T h e c u r t a i n o f m y e y e l i d s i s<br />
r a i s e d ,<br />
D o a p p l a u d , w h e n i t d r o p s<br />
d o w n ,<br />
G e n t l e m e n<br />
a n d l a d i e s .<br />
( B a r t o k :<br />
T h e B l u e b e r r d ’ s<br />
C a s t l e )<br />
Ecco, il canto s'intona<br />
Voi mi guardate,<br />
io vi guardo<br />
Il sipario delle nostre<br />
palpebre si leva<br />
Dov'è la scena:<br />
dentro o fuori<br />
Uomini e donne ?<br />
La musica risuona,<br />
le fiamme ardono,<br />
Incominci pure<br />
lo spettacolo,<br />
Si alzi il sipario<br />
dai miei occhi;<br />
Quando s'abbasserà: battete le mani,<br />
Uomini e donne…<br />
Bartok: Il castello del Duca Barbablű)<br />
FENETRE<br />
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong><br />
Photos: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i
Sein aristokratisches Gehabe<br />
und seine kühne Eleganz<br />
verliehen der Figur stets etwas<br />
Unnahbares und Mystisches<br />
DAS OPERNGLAS 7./ 8. 2008:<br />
The flying Dutchman ‘2008 Prague<br />
Opera: Volume 59,<br />
Issues 8-12; 2008<br />
page 1314<br />
By PETER<br />
FREESTONE<br />
The find of the evening was <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong>, a<br />
Dutchman of strength and kindness. He used his<br />
beautifully even voice extremely well, never showing<br />
any signs of strain or tiredness. He was also young and<br />
good looking enough to win everybody’s heart.<br />
Photo: K a r e l K o u b a
MICHELE KALMANDI The opera repertory<br />
Il repertorio operistico<br />
Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i<br />
BELLINI: Beatrice di Tenda…………………<br />
DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor………<br />
VERDI: L Trovatore………………………….<br />
Un ballo in maschera……………...<br />
Don Carlos…………………………..<br />
La Traviata……………………….....<br />
Falstaff……………………………….<br />
Nabucco……………………………..<br />
Macbeth……………………………..<br />
Rigoletto……………………………..<br />
La forza del destino………………..<br />
Aida…………………………………..<br />
PUCCINI: Le Villi……………………………..<br />
Edgar……………………………….<br />
Tosca……………………………….<br />
GIORDANO: Fedora…………………………<br />
Andrea Chénier………………<br />
MASCAGNI: Cavalleria rusticana………….<br />
PONCHIELLI: La Gioconda…………………<br />
RESPIGHI: La Fiamma………………………<br />
SMAREGLIA: Nozze Istriane………………<br />
MASSENET: Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame…<br />
BIZET: Carmen……………………………….<br />
MOZART: Don Giovanni……………………<br />
RICHARD STRAUSS: Salome……………..<br />
WAGNER: Der fliegende Holländer………<br />
Tannhäuser………………………<br />
Tristan und Isolde………………<br />
BARTÓK: The Bluebeard’s Castle…………..<br />
Filippo Maria VISCONTI<br />
Enrico ASHTON<br />
Il Conte di LUNA<br />
RENATO<br />
Rodrigo POSA<br />
Giorgio GERMONT<br />
FORD<br />
NABUCCO<br />
MACBETH<br />
RIGOLETTO<br />
Don CARLO<br />
AMONASRO<br />
GUGLIELMO<br />
FRANK<br />
SCARPIA<br />
De SIRIEX<br />
GÉRARD<br />
ALFIO<br />
BARNABA<br />
BASILIO<br />
BIAGIO<br />
BONIFACE<br />
ESCAMILLO<br />
Don GIOVANNI<br />
JOCHANAAN<br />
Der HOLLANDER<br />
WOLFRAM<br />
KURWENAL<br />
The BLUEBEARD
Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i<br />
Benvenuto !<br />
Welcome !<br />
Bienvenue!<br />
Wilkommen!<br />
Benvenido!<br />
Scarpia 2010<br />
MICHELE KALMANDI<br />
baritone<br />
my favourite photos<br />
‘A warm, rich voice that sits<br />
comfortably over both lower and<br />
higher ranges. His sounds, unforced<br />
and natural, were suitably lugubrious –<br />
with, also, the necessary stalwart<br />
attraction.’<br />
THE CLASSICAL SOURCE<br />
‘Einen ausgesprochen schönstimmigen<br />
und feschen Scarpia-Sänger aus Ungarn<br />
lernten wir in <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> kennen. ‘<br />
‘Mit <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> lernten wir einen<br />
für den Scarpia fast zu schönstimmigen<br />
und galanten, sehr gut aussehenden<br />
Sänger kennen.’<br />
DER NEUE MERKER 21 September 2011
Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i<br />
„…uncannily reminiscent of Lawrence Tibbett in his prime….”<br />
Sulla foto: <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> nei panni di Amonarso – Roma – AIDA Terme di Caracalla ‘2011<br />
OPERA NEWS
(Sulla foto: <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> nei panni di Nabucco – Bratislava Opera – NABUCCO September ‘2011)<br />
Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i<br />
NABUCCO<br />
‘The talent of <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> is<br />
revealed in the title-role. Here we<br />
see a magnificent performer of a<br />
strong presence, with a superbly<br />
well supported delivery’<br />
by Roderic Dunnet - OPERA NOW<br />
”
Foto: Giacomo Orlando<br />
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong><br />
„THE BAD BOY”<br />
F i l i p p o M a r i a V i s c o n t i<br />
„…potenza ed espressivitá vocale, nonché una<br />
vera arte di attore drammatico.”<br />
SIPARIO
Coming Soon !!!<br />
Bellini: BEATRICE DI TENDA DVD<br />
at TEATRO MASSIMO BELLINI<br />
Catania, December 2010<br />
from „DYNAMIC”<br />
With:<br />
Dimitra Theodossiou,<br />
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong>,<br />
Jose Maria Lo Monaco,<br />
Alexandro Roy,…<br />
Cond.: M° ANTONIO PIROLLI<br />
Prod.: HENNING BROCKHAUS<br />
Foto: Giacomo Orlando<br />
„Sein aristokratisches Gehabe und seiner kühne Eleganz<br />
erfreuten das Auge,”<br />
DAS OPERNGLAS
He has a true Verdi baritone with a<br />
warm burnished tone that is<br />
consistently beautiful and even<br />
throughout the range.<br />
The Opera Critic<br />
Egli è un vero baritono<br />
verdiano dotato di timbro<br />
caldo e brunito, che si<br />
mantiene sempre bello in<br />
tutta la tessitura.<br />
MACBETH<br />
Modena Teatro „Pavarotti”<br />
Director:<br />
GIANCARLO COBELLI<br />
Foto: Rolando Paolo Guerzoni
MACBETH<br />
Modena Teatro „Pavarotti”<br />
Director:<br />
GIANCARLO COBELLI<br />
Cond:<br />
Aldo Sisillo
His baritone is strong, penetrating,<br />
rich and coloured and he has a<br />
wonderful sense of line<br />
THE CLASSICAL SOURCE<br />
MACBETH<br />
Modena Teatro „Pavarotti”<br />
Lady Macbeth:<br />
CSILLA BOROSS<br />
Director:<br />
GIANCARLO COBELLI<br />
Foto: Rolando Paolo Guerzoni
AUCKLAND 2010 October<br />
In the dressing room<br />
Photo: LilÁrt<br />
VERDI: MACBETH at NZ-OPERA<br />
directed by TIM ALBERY<br />
with the King … ‘before (!)’<br />
Photo: Jane Ussher
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> with the witches:<br />
VERDI: MACBETH at NZ-OPERA<br />
directed by TIM ALBERY<br />
2010 September-October<br />
Photo: Jane Ussher
Foto: S t e i n d o r f - S a b a t h<br />
„baritono dal timbro caldo e<br />
pastoso”<br />
L’ OPERA - Milano<br />
RIGOLETTO
„Una voce meravigliosa, un vero<br />
baritono verdiano” (Nello Santi)<br />
„Gorgeous voice, a true Verdi – baritone.” (Nello<br />
Santi)<br />
Photo: Attila Juhasz<br />
RIGOLETTO<br />
with Patrizia Ciofi
Der grandiose Bariton <strong>Michele</strong><br />
<strong>Kalmandi</strong>.<br />
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<br />
Le baryton <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> au<br />
superbe timbre noir.”<br />
OPÉRA INTERNATIONAL-Paris<br />
AMONASRO<br />
with Maria José Siri
AMONASRO<br />
A genuine dramatic baritone.<br />
L’ OPERA -Milano
Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i<br />
„un timbre d’une rare beauté et une émission<br />
d’une touchante ‘morbidezza’”<br />
OPÉRA INTERNATIONAL - Paris<br />
Lyrical Expressions<br />
„<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> offered a dashing, world-class<br />
Holländer, highlighted by simply gorgeous use of<br />
dynamics in ’Wie aus der Ferne’.”<br />
OPERA NEWS
Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i<br />
Lyrical Expressions<br />
Coming soon on YouTube!
Foto: Giacomo Orlando<br />
Qui m’accolse opresso, errante,<br />
Qui die fine a mie sventure…<br />
Io preparo a lei la scure!<br />
Per amor supplizio io do !<br />
Ah! mai piú d’uman sembiante<br />
Sostener potró l’aspetto:<br />
Sulla terra maledetto,<br />
Condannato in ciel saró !<br />
MICHELE KALMANDI<br />
as Filippo Maria Visconti<br />
In Bellini’s<br />
BEATRICE DI TENDA<br />
2010 December<br />
Teatro massimo Bellini, CATANIA<br />
Photo: GIACOMO ORLANDO
Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i<br />
‘A very determinated Jochanaan with<br />
an erect stance and beautiful words’<br />
HUNGARIAN MUSIC QUARTERLY
Normál,<br />
behelyettesítés<br />
2<br />
J<br />
Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i
di Richard<br />
Strauss<br />
Tetro ‘Verdi’ TRIESTE<br />
Savonlinna Festival<br />
State Opera Budapest<br />
Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i<br />
‘<strong>Michele</strong><br />
<strong>Kalmandi</strong>’s<br />
shining.<br />
noble,<br />
heroic<br />
baritone<br />
succeeded<br />
well as<br />
Jochanaan’<br />
OPERA<br />
CANADA<br />
Canadian Opera<br />
Guild,<br />
Canadian Opera<br />
Asociation
MICHELE KALMANDI<br />
Filmography and Discography<br />
Coming<br />
Soon !!!<br />
Coming soon !!!<br />
Vincenzo Bellini:<br />
BEATRICE DI TENDA DVD<br />
at TEATRO MASSIMO BELLINI ,<br />
CATANIA<br />
–live performance December 2010<br />
recorded from „DYNAMIC”, with:<br />
Dimitra Theodossiou,<br />
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong>,<br />
Jose Maria Lo Monaco,<br />
Alexandro Roy,…<br />
Cond.: M° ANTONIO PIROLLI<br />
Prod.: HENNING BROCKHAUS<br />
Giuseppe Verdi: NABUCCO DVD –<br />
Title-role, VIDEO COMPANIONS<br />
OPERA -89140<br />
Live recorded in the Arena‘Ahoy’ in<br />
ROTTERDAM-Netherlands on January<br />
27th 2001 –The same day, a hundred<br />
years earlier, Giuseppe Verdi died<br />
With: <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong>,<br />
Gabriela Morigi, Harry Peeters,<br />
Marianna Kulikova, Felipe Rojas ,…<br />
Netherlands Ballet Orchestra<br />
Cond. by: Walter Attanasi,<br />
Stage director: Bernard Broca<br />
Giuseppe Verdi: LA TRAVIATA<br />
DVD<br />
recorded for International Institute<br />
for Opera and Poetry –I.I.O.P.<br />
established by UNESCO in Verona<br />
Project: L’opera Italiana nel mondo<br />
Budapest 2001 nel centenario della<br />
morte di Giuseppe Verdi<br />
with: M. Gonzalez, A. Lantsov, M.<br />
<strong>Kalmandi</strong>,…<br />
role: GIORGIO GERMONT Hungarian<br />
State Opera Chorus and Orchestra<br />
Cond. by Riccardo Capasso<br />
Stage Director: Gianfranco De Bosio<br />
Bela Bartok: HERZOG BLAUBARTS<br />
BURG CD<br />
Title-role : M. <strong>Kalmandi</strong><br />
Judith: Katalin Szendrényi<br />
ANTES EDITION LC7985;<br />
Bella Musica BM-CD 31:9052<br />
BadisheStaatskapelle–Karlsruhe<br />
Cond. by: Günther Neuhold<br />
Béla Bartók:<br />
A KÉKSZAKÁLLU HERCEG VÁRA<br />
(The Bluebeard’sCastle) CD<br />
Title-role: M. <strong>Kalmandi</strong>, Judith: Eva Balatoni<br />
Privat Edition–Parsifal Foundation BR0250<br />
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra<br />
Cond. by: Janos Kovacs<br />
Bela Bartok:<br />
HERZOG BLAUBARTS BURG CD<br />
Live recording at Tonhalle- Zürich 1. Mai 1994<br />
Title-role: M. <strong>Kalmandi</strong><br />
Judith: Lubica Rybarska<br />
Privat Edition-Schweiz<br />
Schweizerishes Jugend-Sinfonieorchester<br />
Cond. by: Andreas Delfs<br />
Johannes Brahms: THE FOUR SYMPHONIES,<br />
VIOLIN & PIANO CONCERTOS, EIN<br />
DEUTSCHES REQUIEM CD<br />
HUNGAROTON HCD32137-42<br />
M. <strong>Kalmandi</strong> –baritone, Szilvia Hamvasi –soprano<br />
Régis Pasquier –violin, Péter Frankl -piano<br />
Hungarian Rado Symphony Orchestra,<br />
Hungarian Radio Chorus, Cond. By: TamasVasary<br />
Pietro Mascagni: LODOLETTA CD<br />
HUNGAROTON HCD 31307-08, role: FRANZ<br />
with: M. Spacagna, P. Kelen, L. Polgar, M.<br />
<strong>Kalmandi</strong>, K. Szilagyi, A. Ulbrich,…<br />
Hungarian State Orchestra<br />
Radio and Television Chorus<br />
Cond. By Charles Rosekrans<br />
Ferencz Erkel: BÁNK BÁN CD, 2011<br />
OPERA STÚDIÓ MÁO 001<br />
Original version 1860, role: PETUR Bán<br />
with: Bándi, Fekete, Lukacs, Kertesi,<br />
<strong>Kalmandi</strong>,…<br />
Hungarian Opera Chorus,<br />
Hungarian Opera Orchestra,<br />
Cond. Domonkos Héja<br />
Ferencz Erkel: BÁNK BÁN CD<br />
Alpha Line Records ALR 005-07<br />
Original version 1st recording,<br />
role: PETUR Bán<br />
with: Molnár, Marton, Kertesi, <strong>Kalmandi</strong>,<br />
Gati,…<br />
Hungarian Festival Chorus,<br />
Budapester Sinfoniker,<br />
Cond: Géza Oberfrank<br />
Giuseppe Verdi: NABUCCO CD<br />
COMPANIONS CLASSIC CC-000111<br />
Nabucco: <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong><br />
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong>, Gabriela Morigi,<br />
Harry Peeters,<br />
Marianna Kulikova, Felipe Rojas<br />
Chorus: Opera In ’Ahoy’<br />
Netherlands Ballet Orchestra,<br />
Cond. by: Walter Attanasi<br />
Baldassare Galuppi:<br />
IL CAFFÉ DI CAMPAGNA CD<br />
HUNGAROTON , HCD31658-59 (1997);<br />
role: FUMANA<br />
Monika Gonzalez (sopran), <strong>Michele</strong><br />
<strong>Kalmandi</strong> (bariton),<br />
and: Bernadette Wiedemann, Andrea Szanto,<br />
Frano Lufi, Vito Martino,…<br />
Capella Savaria<br />
Conductor: Fabio Pirona<br />
Giuseppe Verdi: ROMANZE CD<br />
Privat Edition OPERAMI OP 01<br />
from Festival „Bartok+Verdi 2001”-<br />
Miskolc<br />
Piano: Tamas Pal<br />
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> bariton
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong><br />
Discography:<br />
• Verdi: NABUCCO CD Title-role, COMPANIONS CLASSICS, CC-<br />
000111, Netherlands Ballet Orchestra, Cond. by: Walter Attanasi<br />
• Mascagni: LODOLETTA CD –Franz, HUNGAROTON, HCD31307-<br />
08, Cond. by: Charles Rosekrans<br />
• Galuppi: IL CAFFÉ DI CAMPAGNA CD –Fumana,<br />
HUNGAROTON, HCD31658-59, Capella Savaria, Cond. by: Fabio<br />
Pirona<br />
• Brahms: EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM CD –Baritone Solo,<br />
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, HUNGAROTON HCD32137-42<br />
Cond: Tamas Vasary<br />
• Verdi: ROMANZE CD –Privat Edition from Festival<br />
„Bartok+Verdi”-Miskolc, Piano: Tamas Pal<br />
• Bartok: HERZOG BLAUBARTS BURG CD –Title-role, Privat<br />
Edition-Schweiz, Schweizerishes Jugend-Sinfonieorchester, Cond.<br />
by Andreas Delfs<br />
• Bartok: HERZOG BLAUBARTS BURG CD –Title-role, ANTES<br />
EDITION LC7985; Bella Musica BM-CD 31:9052, Badishe<br />
Staatskapelle –Karlsruhe, Cond. by: Günther Neuhold<br />
• Bartok: A KÉKSZAKÁLLU HERCEG VÁRA CD (The Bluebeard’s<br />
Castle), Privat Edition –Parsifal Foundation, BR0250, Hungarian<br />
State Opera Orchestra, Cond. by: Janos Kovacs<br />
• DYNAMIC !!!!!!COMING SOON<br />
Filmography:<br />
Photo: Jane Ussher<br />
=Verdi: NABUCCO DVD –Title-role, VIDEO<br />
COMPANIONS OPERA -89140, Netherlands<br />
Ballet Orchestra, Cond. by: Walter Attanasi,<br />
Stage director: Bernard Broca<br />
=Verdi: LA TRAVIATA DVD -George Germont,<br />
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra,<br />
Stage Director: Gianfranco De Bosio<br />
=Bellini: BEATRICE DI TENDA –Filippo, DVD<br />
Teatro Massimo Bellini, CATANIA from<br />
DYNAMIC !!! COMING SOON !!!
Pressestimmen:<br />
Baldassare Galuppi:<br />
„IL CAFFÉ DI CAMPAGNA”<br />
CD (1997)<br />
HUNGAROTON , HCD31658-59<br />
Capella Savaria<br />
Conductor: Fabio Pirona<br />
Dorina: Monika Gonzalez (sopran),<br />
Fumana: <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> (bariton),<br />
and: Bernadette Wiedemann, Andrea<br />
Szanto, Frano Lufi, Vito Martino,…<br />
FONOFORUM 2/98: „Stimmlich ist die Aufnahme<br />
sehr befriedigend besetzt, mit Sängerinnen und<br />
Sängern, denen sauber und effektvoll konturierte<br />
Charakterzeichungen und lebendige<br />
Ensembleszenen gelingen. Die Wiederbelebung der<br />
theatralisch wirkungsvollen Musik ist erfreulich.”<br />
I. Allihn<br />
Photo: Szipál<br />
MICHELE KALMANDI in 1997<br />
‘One is grateful for <strong>Michele</strong><br />
<strong>Kalmandi</strong>’s smooth sound and<br />
polished phrasing as the Count’<br />
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE ARG:<br />
For people who care about music and<br />
recordings; Page 108-109<br />
Information Access Company’ 1998 -Music
Giuseppe Verdi: NABUCCO DVD (2003)<br />
Live recorded in the Arena ‘Ahoy’ in ROTTERDAM<br />
Netherlands on January 27th 2001 –The same day, a<br />
hundred years earlier, Giuseppe Verdi died.<br />
Nabucco: <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong><br />
(Performers: <strong>Kalmandi</strong>, Morigi, Peeters, Kulikova, Rojas, …)<br />
VIDEO COMPANIONS OPERA-89140<br />
Netherlands Ballet Orchestra<br />
Conductor: M Walter Attanasi<br />
Directed by: Bernard Broca<br />
DVD REVIEWER: „…incredible presence in the title-role.<br />
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> gave a stirring performance as the King of Babylon.”<br />
www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/reviews<br />
Performance reviews In Netherland:<br />
TROUW MUZIEKRECENSIES / KLASSIEK 27 Januari 2001:<br />
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> gaf die rol prachtige diepgang met zijn echte Verdibariton.”Peter<br />
van der Lint<br />
HET PAROL 26.01.2001: „Vooral de uitzonderlijk fraai getimbreerde<br />
Bariton <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> in de rol van Nabucco maakte grote indruk.”<br />
NRC/HANDELSBLAD 26.01.2001: „De titelrol is uitstekend bezet. <strong>Michele</strong><br />
<strong>Kalmandi</strong> maakt, na zijn hautaine entree in een gouden gewaad op<br />
een schimmel, veel indruk in zijn sterk bewogen waanzinscene.”<br />
ALGEMEEN DAGBLAD 27.01.2001: „…de heel mooi zingende <strong>Michele</strong><br />
<strong>Kalmandi</strong> als Nabucco. Deze bariton heeft een prachtige, volumineuze<br />
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong><br />
NABUCCO<br />
At ‘Teatro G. Verdi’ TRIESTE<br />
en stevige stem.” Photo: M a r t a K r a u s - K a l m a n d i
CD Bartok: HERZOG<br />
BLAUBARTS BURG<br />
Katalin Szendrényi (Sopran)<br />
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> (Bariton)<br />
Badische Staatskapelle<br />
Karlsruhe<br />
Musicalische Leitung:<br />
Günther Neuhold<br />
ANTES EDITION LC7985<br />
Bella Musica BM-CD<br />
31.9052<br />
DAS ORCHESTER 7-8/97: Blaubart-<br />
„…der Verdi- un Wagner bewährte<br />
Bariton <strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong> (Mihály<br />
Kálmándi) :<br />
Überzeugend gelingt ihm die<br />
Darstellung eines finster-herrischen<br />
Blaubarts, dessen musikalischen<br />
Charakter Bartók ähnlich<br />
gezeichnet hat wie Debussy den<br />
seines Golauds in ‘Pelléas et<br />
Mélisande’. Blaubart schwankt<br />
zwischen abweisender Kälte, Angst<br />
vor der Zerstörung der ehelichen<br />
Scheinidylle durch die Offenlegung<br />
seiner Seelenabgründe und<br />
Resignation angesichts der<br />
Tatsache, daß –wie es im Prolog<br />
heißt –”der Schlüssel zum Herzen”,<br />
Judiths Liebe, notgedrungen, „Türen<br />
zum Leide” öffnen wird. All diese<br />
Aspekte macht <strong>Kalmandi</strong>s<br />
Interpretation glaubhaft, was im<br />
strengen Rahmen der von Bartók<br />
bewußt formelhaft-rezitativisch<br />
angelegten Gesangsfiguren gar<br />
nicht so einfach ist.” Martin Rundel<br />
MICHELE KALMANDI<br />
The Bluebeard in 2007 at Budapest State Opera with<br />
Szilvia Ralik as JUDITH<br />
Photo: Éder
Photo: JANE USSHER<br />
MICHELE KALMANDI<br />
E-mail: baritonokalmandi@yahoo.it<br />
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With Maestro<br />
Placido<br />
Domingo<br />
in Rome-<br />
‘Teatro<br />
dell’Opera’<br />
during the<br />
rehersals of<br />
FEDORA in<br />
1999
<strong>Michele</strong> <strong>Kalmandi</strong><br />
Photo: J a n e U s s h e r<br />
(Foto: MEZEY)
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