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Les Arts Florissants/Agnew review – striking accounts of 400-year-old Monteverdi madrigals
4 / 5 stars
Milton Court, London
The Eighth Book of Monteverdi’s madrigals, first published in 1638, was the basis for this highly articulate and well focused concert.
..“There were many highlights, with Antonio Abete moving his sepulchral bass around with focused precision in Altri Canti D’Amor, and giving the god Pluto a dark-toned authority in the Ballo Delle Ingrate..”
The guardian, George Hall, Tuesday 26 May 2015.

– Monteverdi/Boesmans : Poppea e Nerone / Seneca, Opera de Montpellier:

“l’impressionnant Antonio Abete (Seneca)… cette nouvelle création forte de son impeccable casting nous vient du Teatro Real de Madrid de Gérard Mortier”, 16/05/2013:

http://www.lesinrocks.com/2013/05/16/arts-scenes/scenes/warlikowski-fait-du-neuf-avec-poppee-11395955/

“les plus éclatants… Antonio Abete (il a fructifié son long compagnonnage avec Seneca)”:

http://www.resmusica.com/2013/05/23/montpellier-transgressif-poppea-e-nerone/

“Face à ses divagations, Sénèque trouve en Antonio Abete, basse italienne, sagesse et clairvoyance”:

http://www.webthea.com/POPPEA-E-NERONE-de-Monteverdi-3738

“Tous sont à cet égard exemplaires, et au premier rang les solistes… les deux interprètes s’imposent d’abord théâtralement, tout comme le Sénèque tourmenté et digne d’Antonio Abete”:

http://www.forumopera.com/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,print,0&cntnt01articleid=5191&cntnt01showtemplate=false&cntnt01lang=fr_FR&cntnt01returnid=54

– Telemann, Flavius Bertaridus / Grimoaldo, CD Harmonia Mundi:

direttore Alessandro De Marchi, orchestra Academia Montis Regalis:

“L’altro elemento di spicco è il Grimoaldo di Antonio Abete, esemplare come sempre in fatto di proprietà stilistica e fantasia d’accento.”
Classic Voice Settembre 2012

– Madrid, Teatro Real, L’Incoronazione di Poppea – Seneca, William Christie, Pier Luigi Pizzi:

“In a generally splendid cast…Antonio Abete deployed his sonorous, virile bass to create a splendid version of Seneca, the pompous philosopher who ends up achieving supreme dignity through a brave death.” Opera News Magazine, Roberto Herrscher . http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2010/9/Review/MADRID__L_Incoronazine_di_Poppea.html

Potsdam, Musikfestspiele Sanssouci, Mozart’s Harem, Arie per basso e soprano, “On the road to Mozart’s Harem opera’s van Hasse, Gluck, Haydn & Sussmayer”, B’rock Belgian Baroque Orchestra Ghent:

 “Il cantante Antonio Abete ha presentato queste arie buffe con umorismo eccellente. La sua voce di basso, piena e corposa, un avvenimento  pieno di forza tutte le volte che è entrato in scena, un canto che accarezza le orecchie.”Der Tagesspiegel & Potsdamer Neuste Nachrichten, Dirk Becker, 20 Agosto 2010 http://www.b-rock.org/pers.php?yId=2010&pId=70

Cleveland, The Cleveland Orchestra, Così fan tutte – Don Alfonso,  Zurich Opera production, conductor Franz Welser-Möst :

“As the catalyst Don Alfonso, Antonio Abete makes the ideal bete-noire, a thoroughly jaded jerk. But behind his dark glasses, the outward symbol of his philosophical blindness, lies a colorful, penetrating bass-baritone.” The Plain Dealer, Thursday, March 4, 2010 By Zachary Lewis Link to this article: http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2010/03/post_34.html

“The philosopher Don Alfonso (otherwise known as a rabble-rouser) wonderfully enacted by bass-baritone Antonio Abete” Cool Cleveland.”

USA http://www.dailyclassicalmusic.com/