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2021-03-25 08:08:39
From Monteverdi & Cavalli to Abba: 'Rebirth' from Sonya Yoncheva, Leonardo García Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea on Sony Classical
[…] has recorded Leonardo García Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea on the Sony Classical label. The programme is highly eclectic, mixing sacred and profane, vocal and instrumental. The selection of composers ranges widely with a madrigal by Monteverdi and Arnalta's aria from L'incoronatione di Poppea, a sinfonia from Cavalli's opera L'egisto and an aria from Xerse, an aria from Stradella's oratorio San Giovanne Battista, Barbara Strozzi's L'Eraclito amoroso, music from Alarcón's completion of Antonio Draghi's El Prometeo, 17th century Spanish dance music from Jose Marin and Tomas de Torrejon y Velazco along with music by the contemporary Argentine composer Simon Diaz, Orlando Gibbons' The Silver Swan, John Dowland's Come again, sweet love and a pavan by Alfonso Ferrabosco retrofitted with text by Ben Johnson, a Bulgarian folk-song and Like an Angel passing through the room by Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (the writing partnership behind Abba). The programme was […]
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2021-02-12 10:23:24
Maestros are starting to lose it in lockdown
Riccardo Muti has appealed to Italy’s incoming Prime Minister Mario Draghi to reopen the opera houses, despite dangerously high levels of Covid infections and deaths. Muti, 80 this year, said: ‘I appeal to Draghi, an extraordinary person, so that he can restore the dignity to culture in Italy that it deserves.’ In Dresden, Christian Thielemann […]
2020-07-13 07:08:10
The Invention of English Opera: the surprising history of opera in 17th century England, part one, from masques to dramatic-opera
[…] reasons, partly economic; there was no patronage of opera by the English Royal Court, there was no English opera company. And the vigour of the theatrical tradition almost precluded the development of opera. In addition, there seems to have been an inherent mistrust of opera as a foreign entertainment. Psyche is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Matthew Locke to a libretto by the Poet Laureate, Thomas Shadwell (1642-1602) with dances by Giovanni Battista Draghi (1640-1708). It was first performed at Dorset Garden Theatre, London on 27 February 1675 by the Duke's Company with choreography the French dancing-master Saint-André, stage machinery by Thomas Betterton and scenery by Stephenson. The work is loosely based on Jean-Baptiste Lully's 1671 tragédie-ballet Psyché. Locke composed Psyche in response to the visit to Britain of a French opera company under the direction of Robert Cambert, in 1674 [see my article on the Invention of […]
2020-04-24 08:42:28
A new chamber version of Holst's The Cloud Messenger, from Kings College, London, gives us a leaner, more transparent version of the rarely performed choral ode
[…] unusual combinations of instruments by Howard Skempton on The man hurdy-gurdy and me - CD review The merest smell is sufficient to turn my stomach: the complex relationship between Richard Wagner and Giacomo Meyerbeer - feature article Everything comes from the words: composer Ian Venables talks about his approach to song writing - interview The 17th century opera by an Italian composer, premiered in Vienna with a Spanish libretto: Antonio Draghi's El Prometeo - CD review Home
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