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Celebrating 17th-century Venice as a place of tolerance for gay artists - Infinite Refrain: Music of Love's Refuge
[…] with the two singers holding flowers, encourages this) and the disc culminates in the ravishing duet, 'Pur ti miro, pur ti godo' which concludes Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea.The programme opens with Monteverdi's duet, Vorrei baciarti from his Settimo libro de madrigali and also from that volume come the duets Perchè fuggi, Soave libertate, and Tornate, o cari baci, plus the two solo Lettere Amorose. There are arias by Cavalli, Misero, così va from Eliogabolo, and Stradella, two arias from Il Trespo Tutole. Plus by composers not so well known, Jacopo Melani, Daniele da Castrovillari and Giovanni Antonio Boretti.The duet Se per tè lieto mi lice from Boretti's Ercole in Tebe sees the mythic lovers Hercules and Theseus pledge their devotion to each other while escaping Hades hand-in-hand! Cavalli's last opera, Eliogabolo features a hero who dressed and acted as woman, though this was replaced at short notice by a version […]
2022-03-28 13:58:09
Haydn and more, 2022
[…] Pierre Boulez – the French composer, theoreticians, teacher, and conductor was born on March 26th of 1925. This week, in addition to Haydn, we have: Sergei Rachmaninov, born on April 1st of 1873, the Spanish composer of the Renaissance Antonio de Cabezón, born March 30th of 1510 (here is his Pavana Italiana, performed by the organist Sebastiano Bernocchi); Ferruccio Busoni, born on April 1st of 1866 and another Italian of a very different era, Alessandro Stradella, on April 3rd of 1639. (Stradella’s life story was incredible, you may read about it here). Among the conductors born this week (Willem Mengelberg, Pierre Monteux) there’s one with a particular interest to us, Christian Thielemann, who will turn 73 on April 1st. The reason is that he is rumored to become the Music Director of the Chicago Symphony, as 2023 is when the contract of the current Music Director, Riccardo Muti, expires. Despite […]
2022-03-27 20:47:02
On a chilly Saturday night, Haymarket Opera Company returned to live […]
2022-02-13 09:18:09
[…] Kyropoulos discusses bringing historical stagecraft to the modern stage - interview Jonathan Miller's production of Puccini's La bohème is in fine fettle as it returns to the London Coliseum - opera review The Flat Consort: Fretwork evoke afternoons in Hereford with composer Matthew Locke performing with friends - record review Enchantresses: Sandrine Piau is on vivid form in this recital of arias from Handel's operas from Rinaldo to Alcina - record review Robert Max in Bach's six Cello Suites at Conway Hall - concert review Love & dissimulation: Alessandro Stradella's opera Amare e fingere explores the 17th centuries fascination with Arcadia - record review Home
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