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CLARÍN - Sandra de la Fuente - 28th May 2018
"The balance between music and voices is as perfect as if it were from a movie. Carlos Vieu controls each and every sound plain, from the pit to those coming from the back curtain. The bass strings of the orchestra provide the needed support. Vieu's steady baton guarantees every solo is played freely."
La
Nación 16th May 2017 - Teatro Coliseo - Abono de Nueva Armonía
Concierto of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón - Soloist Stefano Bollani
Critic by Virginia Cacón Dorr
Suor Angelica (Puccini) I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) Teatro Del Círculo
Diario La Capital de Rosario - 11th April 2017
"Carlos Vieu, at the head of the Orquesta Sinfónica Provincial de Rosario, has made a profound reading, highlighting the lyrical moments of both scores. An impeccable conduction
Choral Awesomeness: Carmina, Symphony Silicon Valley
By David Bratman, San Francisco Classical Voice March 25, 2014
"Guest conductor Carlos Vieu led Symphony Silicon Valley, its Chorale, the Cantabile Youth Singers, and soloists in a vividly exciting and intensely text-oriented performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana at San José's California Theatre on Saturday.
Sure, the poems are all in medieval Latin or Middle High German, and the audience couldn't be expected to understand them. (There were no distracting supertitles.) Vieu nevertheless had the singers express the words, and they succeeded in doing so with only the slightest touch of acting-out on stage.
Vieu conducted the orchestra into raw vigor, producing mighty thumps and clangs from brass and percussion for that primitivist "Roman Empire sound," as much reminiscent of Respighi as of Stravinsky or Prokofiev. If there was a flaw, it was that Vieu relied too much on the words to convey the structure. There wasn't always sufficiently purely musical reason for the repeated strophes. This caused some slower movements to drag a bit. He did, though, wrap the work up at the end with a satisfactorily tidy ribbon"
"The great musical leader was conductor Carlos Vieu, to whom the Colón finally entrusted an important title. He did a great performance, from the chromatic slow Prelude, so much better than that Overture Verdi discarded. He also has talent as concertator, vital for such a piece in which concertators are so harsh. His tempi were generally appropiate, except maybe for a somewhat held back tempo in the great choral melody in the triumph scene and some extended silence. He always accompanied the singers expertise and in accordance with the character of each fragment."
Musical critics of Argentina - Eduardo Balestena
Aida - 110 anniversary of the Teatro Colón - 29 May 2018.
"Carlos Vieu marked every with extensive detail not only each of the entrances from the orchestra, singers, choir, and backstage elements but also the dynamic aspects, with great clarity even through the many measure changes, including the finales of scenes with singers, choir, orchestra and backstage elements. Remarkable and precise finales, with no shifts, in an interpretation with the proper colours and dynamics of the action and climate of the piece. In his versatility, that has led him to work in symphonic repertoire as well as soloist concertos and orchestra, in his vast experience Carlos Vieu reveals to be an excellent opera conductor."
Teatro Colón: an "Aida" to remember
Pablo Kohan, 28th May
"Under the conduction of Carlos Vieu, very accurate in every sense, and with great performance from both orchestra and choir... converging in the celebration for the theatre's anniversary, Verdi's delightful music, the grand flair of the scenery, the certainty of the conductor and orchestra and, as a crucial factor, the great performance by the national cast. The sum of all them exploded in an absolutely incomprehensible tumultuos standing ovation"
By Ernesto Castagnino - Tiempo de Musica - August 2014.
"La Bohème" in the Teatro Argentino: Revindicating tenderness
Ernesto Castagnino. May 2016.
"The conduction of Carlos Vieu had two ingredients that the delightful socre by Puccini requires: deep lyrism without sugarcoating it, a wide range of colours and a great care for the clarity of words. Vieu, as many previous times, has shown what a conductor that knows how to make himslef understood in the pit as well as the stage can achieve, this time at the head of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Argentino in its best iteration and with a vocal team with no flaws."
Tosca in the Lyric Season of the Teatro Colón
Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires - Premiere - Gran Abono
Saturday 20 of August 2016 - Eduardo Balestena
"With an homogeneous sound in the dynamic changes, a perfect phrasing and an absolutely clear pallete of colours, the Orquesta Estable had an intense and deep sound that allows to infer- besides its renowned proffesionalism- the preparation work made by such an experimented maestro as Carlos Vieu. Conductor of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Argentino de La Plata, he has undertaken numerous productions with different organisms. Some of his titles include Carmina Burana, Simon Boccanegra, Il Trovatore, Madama Butterfly and many others. He was main conductor -by contest- of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Mar del Plata, conducting Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, he was also one of the few to spread the work of Washington Castro, to whom he dedicated in 2003 a concert in his homage, conducted the Zurich Gala, pieces like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.On many occasions I was capable of appreciating his extensive work in general rehearsals of many pieces, it is not surprising he has achieved such result on this occasion."
Tosca in the Colón de Buenos Aires with Marcelo Álvarez
" Mtro. Carlos Vieu conducted with great craft this rich score in which both orchestra and choir had a remarkable labour.
The audience greeted with an ovation the task of the musicians, and the night ended with a perfume of satisfaction worthy of the history of our first coliseum."
"The conduction by Carlos Vieu was clear, detailed and gidted with a remarkable lyric aptitude. His musicality allowed him to control structure and development of the show."
"Carlos Vieu- undoubtedly one of the best opera conductors of our country- and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires deserve a paragraph of their own, as their labour was impeccable from beginning to end. Maestro Vieu moves completely freely in this repertoire, which he knows to perfection, as seen in his secure, joyful and emotional conduction. Emotion he transmits to the orchestra, that is always in service of the singer, respecting their phrasing, without encumbering them.
Beisdes shining as accompanist, the orchestra had some high moments in the pieces played as interludes between Aida's appearences, from which it is hard to mention but one, given the level of rhythmic precision, variety and dynamic subtleties."
Debut Aida Garifullina in Argentina
"Unlike what happened months ago with Elīna Garanča, who struggled with another baton on her debut in the same stage, the relationship established between Garifullona and the Filarmónica was absolutely fluent thanks to the expert hand of Carlos Vieu -possibly the best local option for this end-, who controlled tempi and balance while doting each fragment with its corresponding spirit. In the opening of the second part, orchestra and conductor put the hall in the mood with an extremely subtle rendition of the prelude to the third act of Traviata, connecting with the letter scene and the "Addio del passato", which Garifullina sang with heart wrenching expression."