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2024-03-06 12:30:00
Hercules, Komische Oper, 3 March 2024
Hercules – Brandon Cedel Dejanira – Paula Murrihy Iole – Penny Sofroniadou Hyllus – Caspar Singh Lichas – Susan Zarrabi Priest of Jupiter – Noam Heinz Choral soloists – Martin Fehr, Taiki MiyashitaDirector – Barrie KoskyDesigns – Katrin Lea TagDramaturgy – Zsolt Horpácsy, Johanna WallLighting – Joachim KleinAssistant director – Tobias RibitzkiChoral Soloists of the Komische Oper (director: David Cavelius) Orchestra of the Komische OperDavid Bates (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausDejanira (Paula Murrihy), Lichas (Susan Zarrabi) Handel’s ‘musical drama’ – an interesting term, though we can sometimes make too much of such things – Hercules has never proved especially popular. The composer’s public at the time and for a long while after tended to prefer his Biblical oratorios. Since the revival and, latterly, the craze for his Italian opere serie, they have ruled the roost. Semele, another ‘musical drama’, ‘after the manner of an oratorio’, has fared better since its modern stage revival […]
2023-12-11 06:22:00
The English Concert. Handel's Rodelinda regina de'Longobardi. December 10, 2023.
Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. Balcony (Seat J3, $28).End of concert. The people in the front are (from L to R): Garibaldo, Rodelinda, Bertarido, Harry Bicket, Eduige, Grimoaldo, and Unulfo.Program - in concertRodelinda, HWV 19 (1725) by Handel (1685-1759).Conductor - Harry Bicket; Rodelinda - Lucy Crowe (soprano), Bertarido - Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Unulfo - Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (countertenor), Eduige - Christine Rice (messo-soprano), Garibaldo - Brendon Cedel (bass-bariton).Background. At his death, the King of Lombardy left his domain in equal parts to his three children: Bertarido, Eduige, and Gundeberto. Gundeberto has died, Bertarido is believed to have died - leaving the widow Rodelinda behind as Queen of Milan - and by wooing Eduige, Duke Grimoaldo has aspirations to the whole kingdom.Story. Grimoaldo has seized power, so Rodelinda and her son Flavio are his prisoners. Grimoaldo offers the throne to Rodelinda if she would marry him. Rodelinda refuses, and Eduige vows […]
2022-10-09 07:00:00
2021-05-19 08:28:08
Making goodness interesting: a new recording of Handel's Rodelinda from the English Concert with Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies and Joshua Ellicott
Handel Rodelinda; Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies, Joshua Ellicott, Jess Dandy, Brandon Cedel, Tim Mead, The English Concert, Harry Bicket; LINN Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 18 May 2021 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★½) The English Concert's new recording belies any lockdown restrictions to give us a full account of the opera, finely sung and vividly characterisedHandel's 1725 opera Rodelinda is not only one of his acknowledged masterpieces but also an opera where Handel's approach to the opera seria form created an opera that resonates with contemporary audiences in a way that many others do not. The opera was based on pre-existing sources and, as with his other operas written for London audiences, Handel and his librettist, Nicola Haym, heavily trimmed the source material; Londoners were not keen on vast quantities of explanatory recitative (which usually meant following the translation in the printed libretto) and some of Handel's later operas get […]
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