Giulia Frasi News
18th century Italian opera singer known for being Handel's "last prima donna".
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- opera singer
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2022-02-01 20:16:00
[…] compelling musical performance, with some utterly ravishing woodwind playing in particular. And what a joy not to have to endure Handel with toothpaste-squeezing strings! What a joy, moreover, to be treated to such a cast of Handel singers, who of course contributed greatly to much of what I have said above. Julia Bullock’s patient strength and unshowy sincerity seemed to me just the ticket for Theodora. Charles Burney described her predecessor, Giulia Frasi, a few years earlier as having for Handel ‘a clear and sweet voice, free from defects, and a smooth and chaste style of singing; which, though cold and unimpassioned, pleased natural ears, and escaped the censure of critics.’ Doubtless that meant something different then from what it would now, but I sensed, however fancifully, a dialogue between our two Theodoras, in the broader spirit of what we saw and heard elsewhere too. If I […]
2018-11-01 07:50:05
As if not being familiar with Welsh soprano Ruby Hughes were not enough, the catchphrase for this CD is Arias for Giulia Frasi, Handel’s last prima donna. Well–the things you learn. Frasi arrived in London from Italy in 1742 when Handel’s opera-writing career was over. What lay ahead was some grand oratorios–Jephtha, Theodora, Susannah, and […]
2018-05-06 13:11:56
As if not being familiar with Welsh soprano Ruby Hughes were not enough, the catchphrase for this CD is Arias for Giulia Frasi, Handel’s last prima donna. Well–the things you learn. Frasi arrived in London from Italy in 1742 when Handel’s opera-writing career was over. What lay ahead was some grand oratorios–Jephtha, Theodora, Susannah, and […]
2018-01-30 07:11:13
[…] Mr Handel's Scholars will again present alumni of the Handel Singing Competition, including 2017 finalists Maria and Nathan Vale, joining Anna Devin and Derek Welton,and the London Handel Orchestra. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens The festival's theme this year is Handel and London, so we have Bridget Cunningham directing My Handel's Pleasures, a concert exploring the music of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. And Ruby Hughes (winner of the 2009 competition) takes on the mantle of Giulia Frasi, one of Handel's favourite sopranos and his last prima donna. There is a pair of concerts in Handel's own house, Handel at Home presents harpsichordists Julian Perkins and Gilbert Rowland playing in Handel's drawing room.Congreve's libretto for The Judgement of Paris is best known for its use in the 1701 competition to pit London's finest composers against each other, but it was also set in 1742 by Thomas Arne and it is this version […]
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