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All the conducting master class
2023-06-30 07:01:45
26 – 30 Jul, 2023 The Aguere International Chamber Music Festival has in its musical programme a space dedicated to pedagogical experience and performance, thus offering in this first edition courses forf instrumental improvement and orchestral conducting. The latter study will count with the tuition of Mº Borja Quintas, and will take place between 26th […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-12-23 13:34:00
Christian Lawyers’ Group Sues Director Of Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum For Blasphemy
Last week the institution opened a major retrospective of the iconoclastic Argentine artist León Ferrari, whose work often riffs subversively on Christian imagery. Within a few days, the Asociación Española de Abogados Cristianos filed a legal action against Manuel Borja-Villel, the museum’s director, arguing that the show “insult[s] Jesus” and “mocks the Gospel.” – ARTnews
2020-04-10 09:40:12
The 17th century opera by an Italian composer, premiered in Vienna with a Spanish libretto: Antonio Draghi's El Prometeo
Antonio Draghi El Prometeo; Cappella Mediterranea, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon; Alpha Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 8 April 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Something of a delightful curiosity, a 17th century opera in Spanish, composed by an Italian for performance in ViennaNow this is a real curiosity, an opera written by an Italian composer, premiered in Vienna with a Spanish libretto. Antonio Draghi's El Prometeo (Prometheus) premiered in 1669, and is here revived on Alpha Classics by Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Cappella Mediterranea and choeur de chambre de Namur with soloists Fabio Trumpy, Scott Conner, Mariana Flores, Giuseppina Bridelli, Borja Quiza, Zachary Wilder, Ana Quintans, Damil Ben Hsain Lachiri, Victor Torres, Anna Reinhold, Alejandro Meerapfel, and Lucia Martin-Carton. The final act of the opera does not survive, so has been completed by Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, and the recording was made following performances at Dijon Opera […]
2019-01-20 08:56:25
Everybody Can! Nadine Benjamin in Tosca
Puccini Tosca; Nadine Benjamin, Borja Gomes-Ferrer, David Durham, dir: Rebecca Louse Dale, cond: William Conway; Everybody Can! Opera at St James's Church, Piccadilly Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 18 January 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) An impressive assumption of the title role by Nadine Benjamin, in a small-scale performance which packed a punchNadine Benjamin's Everybody Can! Opera took over St James's Church, Piccadilly last night (18 January 2019) for a staging of Puccini's Tosca, directed by Rebecca Louise Dale, conducted by William Conway with Nadine Benjamin as Tosca, Borja Gomez-Ferrer as Cavaradossi, David Durham as Scarpia, Nico Laruina as Angelotti, Simon Butteriss as the Sacristan and Jonathan Cooke as Spoletta, Nicholas George as Sciarrone. Creating a production of an opera, albeit one billed as semi-staged, is a huge undertaking and all concerned must be complimented for the skill and bravura with which they brought it off, showcasing some very striking […]
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