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2022-02-14 07:43:59
Vivaldi: Bajazet - Gianluca Margheri - Irish National Opera (Photo Kip Carroll) Vivaldi Bajazet; Gianluca Margheri, Eric Jurenas, James Laing, Niamh O'Sullivan, Claire Booth, Aoife Miskelly, dir: Adele Thomas, Irish Baroque Orchestra, cond: Peter Whelan; Irish National Opera at the Royal Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 February 2022 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) A vividly theatrical evening as the cast of Irish National Opera's production combine brilliant virtuoso singing with highly theatrical performancesVivaldi's Bajazet (also known as Il Tamerlano) was premiered at the end of his operatic career, in 1735 in Verona. It is in fact a pasticcio, Vivaldi combining elements from his back catalogue and arias from other composers to create a new work, a sort of greatest hits piece where the arias from other composers were ones principally associated with two of the greatest singers of the day, the soprano castrato Farinelli and […]
2022-02-09 12:50:53
Anglais - Irish National Opera’s Bajazet Comes to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[…] composed the arias for the good characters, in some cases recycling material he had written for other operas, and used other composers’ music for the villains. The story tells of the fate of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I after he is captured by Tamerlano, the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur Lenk who founded the Timurid Empire, following defeat at the Battle of Ankara in 1402. Gianluca Margheri (Bajazet), Aoife Miskelly (Idaspe), Claire Booth (Irene) and Eric Jurenas (Andronico) (c) Kip Carroll While, however, the figures and background are historical, the story as it is told is more reflective of the age in which the opera was written. The original audiences would not have sat silently throughout as a default as we do today, and so the onus was on the composer and librettist (Agostino Piovenein this instance) ensuring that the opera made them want to keep watching. The way […]
2020-11-10 16:29:43
Tri Sestri
Musical conduction: Péter Eötvös / Jonathan Stockhammer. Production: Yuval Sharon. With Aida Garifullina, Margarita Gritskova, Ilseyar Khayrullova, Eric Jurenas, Boaz Daniel, Clemens Unterreiner.
2020-11-07 17:20:31
Orlando
Music: Olga Neuwirth. Libretto: Catherine Filloux and Olga Neuwirth. Conductor: Matthias Pintscher. With: Kate Lindsey, Anna Clementi, Eric Jurenas, Constance Hauman, Margaret Plummer, Agneta Eichenholz, Leigh Melrose, Marcus Pelz, Carlos Osuna, Wolfgang Bankl
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