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2020-04-21 07:48:26
Le Banquet Céleste's new recording of Alessandro Stradella's late 17th century oratorio San Giovanni Battista reveals a form in transition, looking back to Cavalli & forward to High Baroque
[…] also travelled to England where he sang in King James II's chapel, but soon left because of the climate! There is no chorus as such, what choruses there are being sung by the soloists, and Stradella keeps the soloists as the focus. Another intriguing element to the work is Stradella's scoring, as he uses a concerto grosso layout with concertino and ripieno groups of strings. Alessandro Stradella: San Giovanni Battista - Le Banquet Céleste, Angers Nantes Opéra(Photo Jean-Marie Jagu – Angers Nantes Opéra) Stradella himself was quite a character. Born in Bologna, he moved to Rome in 1667 where he worked for Queen Christina of Sweden (who lived in Rome as a Roman Catholic after her abdication). But he led a dissolute life and at one point attempted to embezzle money from the Church. An affair with the mistress of a Venetian nobleman led to innumerable problems and assassination […]
2019-03-29 07:46:28
Period charm & fizzing performance: Messager's Les p'tites Michu from Palazzetto Bru Zane
Messager Les p'tites Michu; Violette Polchi, Anne-Aurore Cochet, Philippe Estephe, Artavazd Sargsyan, Boris Grappe, Pierre Dumoussaud; Palazzetto Bru Zane Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 March 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Messager's first big hit in a recording full of charmAndre Messager is perhaps as well known today as the conductor of the premiere of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande as a composer, though his ballet Les deux Pigeons remains in the repertoire thanks to Sir Frederick Ashton. Of Messager's operas people might name check Veronique and Grange Park Opera revived Fortunio in 2013 [see my review].Now, Palazzetto Bru Zane has sponsored a recording of Andre Messager's first major hit Les p'tite Michu after a long run of failures. Les p'tite Michu dates from 1897, a year before Veronique. The original run of the piece, at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens was over 150 performances, and the English premiere in […]
2014-10-14 02:31:29
Startup culture is fascinating. I sing opera. Neal Goren founded an opera startup called Gotham Chamber Opera. Since Gotham is one of the more successful recent opera startups, I thought it would be great to pick Neal Goren’s brain about what he did – and still does – to make the company work. We talk about his relationship with Leontyne Price as her exclusive collaborator, his love of the non-traditional, the upcoming performances of Gotham Chamber Opera’s double bill of Martinu that I’m performing in, and what it takes to stand out as a new company and as a performer. OperaBox: So, I was thinking that you probably have a lot of singers come to you for direct career advice, and I’d love to cover some of that, but I wanted to sort of take a different tack and talk more about how you’ve gotten to be where you are, […]
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