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German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
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Commemorations 2025 (Birth: George Frideric Handel)
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2024-04-15 10:00:46
On this day in 1738 Handel‘s Serse premiered in London The post appeared first on parterre box.
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-04-13 12:00:23
The week in classical: Carmen; National Youth Chamber Choir/ OAE/Jeannin; LSO/ Roth review – from Habanera to doo-wop
Royal Opera House; St Martin-in-the-Fields; Barbican, LondonAigul Akhmetshina steals the show in Damiano Michieletto’s uneven new 70s-set Bizet. And in a good week for world premieres, four composers take on Handel while the London Symphony Orchestra channels death metalYoung women strut around in hot pants and read their fate in the cards. Listless men in police uniform sweat, drool and rule. Spain, in the Royal Opera House’s
2024-04-11 14:12:29
Trinity Buoy Wharf, LondonRiveting performances underpin a gratifyingly meta version of Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, retold around a Docklands film shootThe
2024-04-11 12:26:00
Metamorfosi: York Early Music Festival 2024
[…] Leggatt and friends for Couperin's Lecons de Tenebre, and Charlston joins with the Consone Quartet for a programme of lieder by the Schumanns husband and wife, and the Mendelssohn siblings, in versions for voice and string quartet. Charlston returns to more traditional territory with a programme of John Dowland with lutenist Toby CarrOther visitors include Concerto Soave in Frescobaldi's lesser-known Arie Musicali; Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, director Peter Seymour, in Entertainment in 18th century London with music by Handel, Arne, Boyce and more; Florilegium exploring music for King Louis XIV and King Louis XV; Nicholas Mulroy and Cubaroque exploring music by Purcell, Monteverdi and modern songs from the South Americas; Vox Luminis return to York to perform music from Monteverdi's Selva Morale e Spirituali from 1641.Apotropaik, winners of the Friends Prize, the EEEmerging+ Prize and the Cambridge Early Music Prize at the York International Young Artists Competition in 2022, explore music written for King Charles […]
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