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Italian opera singer
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2021-09-25 11:26:40
Lyric intensity: Gluck's Paride ed Elena (Paris and Helen) receives its first London staging from Bampton Classical Opera
[…] terrific, and it was simply part of a whole, we never doubted Paris' seriousness or passion. Yet Taylor never went over the top, they had the ability to convey this through the music and I loved the way they shaped the lines, so their performance of Paris' ardent, almost over the top, love song to Helen in Act Three (with harp accompaniment) was very much a highlight. The first Paris was the soprano castrato Giuseppe Millico who created the role of Orfeo in Gluck's Parma version of Orfeo ed Euridice with the title role transposed up for soprano castrato, and someone needs to invite Taylor to perform the Parma Orfeo ed Euridice, and quickly please. Lucy Anderson made a superb foil as Helen, the opera only gradually brings her character into focus and I loved the way Anderson managed to balance Helen's clear attraction to Paris and her being taken aback […]
2021-08-16 10:54:27
[…] of Pallas Athene), using four soprano soloists, dancers and chorus. I was lucky enough to see the work staged at Drottningholm in 1998 (alongside Alceste) and can testify to the opera's imagination as a stage work. Bampton Classical Opera will be performing it in a new English translation by Gilly French, directed by Jeremy Gray, and conducted by Thomas Blunt. The cast features Ella Taylor as Paris (a role written for the soprano castrato Giuseppe Millico who created the role of Orfeo in Gluck's Parma version of Orfeo ed Euridice with the title role transposed up for soprano castrato). Taylor won second prize in the 2020 Ferrier Awards and this will be their professional stage debut. Helen is sung by Lucy Anderson, first-prizewinner in the 2019 Bampton Young Singers’ Competition. Amor (in disguise as Erasto) is Lauren Lodge-Campbell, whilst Lisa Howarth is Pallas Athene. Further details from St John's Smith […]
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
[…] the words more intelligible far less repetition of text within an aria a blurring of the distinction between recitative and aria, declamatory and lyrical passages, with altogether less recitative accompanied rather than secco recitative simpler, more flowing melodic lines an overture that is linked by theme or mood to the ensuing action There would be a revival of Alceste in Vienna in 1770, with the tenor role of Admetus transferred to soprano castrato, Giuseppe Millico (1737-1802), who had played Orfeo in Parma. The final Vienna opera by Gluck and Calzabigi is Paride ed Elena, which tells the story of the Judgement of Paris. The work premiered at the Burgtheater in November 1770, with Millico as Paride. The opera is the least known of the three Reform Operas and was the least popular in Vienna. In the period to 1800, there were more than 100 performances of Orfeo ed Euridice […]
2014-02-28 07:35:36
Farinelli from heaven
[…] are on Rivals! And a sequel of sorts to that revelatory Artaserse is being recorded this week: Vinci’s Catone in Utica with Minasi conducting Il Pomo d’Oro and Fagioli leading another all-male cast in Carestini’s role of Cesare. All around the “castrato” trend continues: Fagioli appears at June’s Salzburg Pfingsten Festival singing 19th century music for Velutti; the delicious Romanian countertenor Valer Barna-Sabadus has recently recorded a CD of music by Gluck composed for Giuseppe Millico; and Stile Galante is fund-raising for a recording featuring Ann Hallenberg in music written for one of the greatest castrati; I know who it is, but I may not tell–the resulting CD should be marvelous! (Full disclosure: three years ago when La Cieca and I first discussed my writing for Parterre Box, I decided to adopt a nom de guerre. Since I expected that my pieces would deal more often than not with 18th […]
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