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2021-03-01 08:24:05
To delight the eyes and ears without the risk of sinning against reason or common sense: the creation of Reform Opera
[…] he would write unreformed opera seria at the same time, and then move to Paris to write tragédie en musique. After settling in Vienna, he started off by writing opera seria, including libretti by Metastasio, but then moved to one-act French opéras comiques.So we have a group of opera-minded people in Vienna, all in influential positions and all interested in operatic reform. There was Durazzo, Gluck and Calzabigi, but there was also the choreographer Gasparo Angiolini (1731-1803) who became director of ballet at the Imperial Theatres in Vienna in 1758. Angiolini was interested in the dramatic possibilities of dance and would work with Gluck on the ballet Don Juan (1761) and the opera Orfeo ed Euridice (1762). There is another link between the Reformists. The major players, Durazzo, Gluck, Calzabigi, and Angiolini were all Freemasons. Garrick, Handel and the castrato There is one final figure in this mix, the castrato […]
2016-11-17 18:45:54
Quatuor Parisii, Melaine Dalibert, Manuel Zurria etc (Another Timbre)A port in the storm, this. Giuliano d’Angiolini is a Paris-based Italian composer and ethnomusicologist who makes music of whispered, consolatory indeterminacy. He is probably best known (if he is known at all) for a 2011 album called Simmetrie di Ritorno, but I would argue that this new release is more sublime, or perhaps just more timely. It contains poised and attentive performances of the piano piece Finale, the string quartet (Suoni della Neve e del Gelo) and the five-flute Aria del Flauto Eolico, all of it the most discreet and enabling kind of chance music – like John Cage, d’Angiolini uses procedures that play out differently every time – that isn’t didactic or abrupt and never resorts to shock tactics. Instead, it lays sounds bare and leaves generous opens spaces for a listener to feel her own responses, or not. This is […]
2016-08-29 00:19:00
[…] a very different style from the Italian ones. So when we arrive to 1762 he had already created 32 operas in the two predominant styles of those times. He was 48 years old, a mature man. It´s worth mentioning that in 1761 he had composed an astonishing "ballet d´action", "Don Juan" , scenario by Angiolini based on Molière, with very dramatic music in the scene where Don Juan falls to Hell. This showed that the right literary stimulus could change Gluck´s music, and in fact it was the poet Raniero Calzabigi´s libretto on the old Greek myth that compelled the musician to write differently. Indeed there are basic changes: […]
2014-02-09 13:24:06
Angiolini said on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that opera music helped her recovery after she was injured in a train accident at Polmont in 1984.
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