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2024-02-02 11:48:00
From forgotten arias in a pasticcio based on Balzac's Sarrasine to a forgotten instrument: Göttingen International Handel Festival announces the 2024 programme under George Petrou
[…] Balzac's novella, Sarrasine about the sculptor Sarrasine's love for a singer, Zambinella, regarding her as his ideal woman but who proves to be a castrato performing female roles. Counter-tenor/sopranist Samuel Marino as Zambinella. The production is directed by Laurence Dale and George Petrou conducts.Before the festival proper there is a pre-opening tempter, former festival artistic director Nicholas McGegan conducts the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Handel's early oratorio Deborah. Then the festival proper opens with Handel's Italian oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Petrou conducting the festival orchestra and counter-tenor Xavier Sabata as Disinganno, whilst later comes Israel in Egypt.Modern reflections include Handel on the saxophone with Lutz Koppetsch, Michel Godara playing that rare instrument, the serpent, jazz singer Efrat Afony, alongside performances from more well-known names including Andrew Foster-Williams, Emoke Barath, Ruby Hughes and Juan Sancho. And of course, there is the festival's Handel competition too.Full details from the festival website. […]
2023-11-01 08:33:00
Haydn, Handel, Bizet, Smyth and early Verdi: after a successful 2023 festival, Buxton announces plans for 2024
[…] he wrote Il Trovatore. Performance of the opera in the UK have been somewhat patchy, the last major staging by a UK company seems to have been ENO in 2000, in a production reworking an earlier one from WNO. The present Royal Opera company has never performed the work.Also in the opera house, The festival is joining forces with Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company to present a staging of Handel's early oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. Written in 1707, the work was Handel's first oratorio, premiered in Rome at a time when opera was banned so that aristocratic patrons turned to oratorio. Handel returned to it twice in London, once in 1737 for an expanded Italian version and again in 1757 when Handel, now blind, created an English language version with the help of his secretary John Christopher Smith Jr. The third presentation in Buxton Opera […]
2023-07-22 13:00:15
Gli arabi nelle Gallie ossia Il Trionfo della fede
Giovanni Pacini’s 1827 opera, revived for the first time since the 19th century.
2022-09-04 04:00:00
Brunetti & Lidón: At the Spanish Royal Chamber (Silvia Marquez Chulilla, La Tempestad)
José Lidón (1748-1827)Il Trionfo (Cantata on the Psalm "Diligam te Domine"-1814)Fransisco Brunetti (1765-1834)Concerto in D major, for Cello & Orchestra (ca. 1800)Gaetano Brunetti (1744-1798)Lamentations for Holy Wednesday (1794)Silvia Marquez Chulilla, La Tempestad(Period Instruments)IBS-202019 (2019)[Flac & Scans]
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