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2022-02-22 09:00:41
[…] and Semele, both of which are being performed in 2022 along with a wide range of other works. After that first festival, the Halle Handel Society was formed in 1925 and a second festival took place in 1929 with a third in 1935. The fourth festival took place in 1949, and since 1952 the festival has become annual. Other operas to be presented this year include Ariodante which will be a Collaboration between the Carlo Colla e Figli marionette theatre and the Lautten Compagney Berlin. Leo Duarte and Opera Settecento will be performing Fernando, Re di Castiglia, a fragment of an opera that Handel would rework into Sosarme, with a cast including Susanna Fairbairn, Nick Scott, Chiara Hendrick and Jess Dandy. Kobie van Rensburg directs a multi-media production of Siroe, Re di Persia with Erich Traxler conducting L'Orfeo Barockorchester and a cast including Matthias Helm, Clint van der Linde, Nicholas […]
2020-11-19 20:35:18
As one might expect from its name, the Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E-flat, K. 364 is both symphonic in character and has a violin and viola soloists, in the manner of a double concerto. However, concertante also meant to play “in concert” among a mixed group of instruments, and Mozart writes in this more conversational vein as well. Each of the winds has a distinctive voice in addition to the two soloists, sometimes playing along with them Colla parte and other times interjecting their own phrases. Mozart’s writing in this symphonic concerto was inspired by his travels, first to Munich and
2019-05-20 09:13:00
Deutsche Oper Berlin. Puccini’s Turnadot. May 18, 2019.
Deutsche Oper Berlin. Parkett 1 (Seat R13-P23, 82 euros). Story. See previous post. Conductor – John Fiore. Turandot – Anna Simirnova, Calaf – Stefano La Colla, Liu – Meechot Marrero, Timur – Andrew Harris, Ping – Samuel Dale Johnson, Pang – Gideon Poppe, Pong – Michael Kim. Minimalist exterior of the Opera House. No chandeliers, no murals, simplicity defines the inside as well. The walk from the train station was more interesting. This was the first opera of this trip, and it was an opera staple, Turandot. The Deutsche Oper Berlin first opened its doors in 1912, was destroyed during the second world war, and reopened with a newly design building in 1961. The word to describe the outside design is “austere” and the inside is “practical.” Which may not be all bad. […]
2017-12-07 00:35:00
Amber Wagner as Turandot and Stefano La Colla as Calaf during a dress rehearsal for the Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Puccini's "Turandot." Amber Wagner as Turandot and Stefano La Colla as Calaf during a dress rehearsal for the Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Puccini's "Turandot."
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