Ida Henriette da Fonseca News
Danish opera singer and composer (1802-1858)
- mezzo-soprano
- Denmark
- opera singer, composer, teacher
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2021-12-31 12:11:17
[…] strong musical theatre evening, Sondheim's A Little Night Music with a strong cast from Opera North at Leeds Playhouse, and the Grange Festival's engagingly imaginative concert staging of My Fair Lady. Tony Cooper Stephan Herheim's new production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen; conductor Donald Runnicles at the Deutsche Oper Berlin Beethoven’s Fidelio at Glyndebourne with Dorothea Herbert and Adam Smith Gluck: Paris and Helen - Oliver Adam-Reynolds, Oscar Fonseca - Bampton Classical Opera (Photo Jeremy Gray) Robert Zest and energy: New Sussex Opera revives Offenbach's La princesse de Trébizonde The journey begins: Richard Jones and Martyn Brabbins launch a new Ring Cycle at ENO, dramatically anti-heroic yet with strong musical values and some intriguing ideas Back with a bang: Donizetti's Roberto Devereux from Chelsea Opera Group with Helena Dix and Eleazar Rodrigues Mad, messy and marvellous: Richard Strauss' Die […]
2021-09-26 14:36:00
St John’s, Smith Square Paride – Ella Taylor Elena – Lucy Anderson Amore/Erasto – Lauren Lodge-Campbell Pallas Athena – Milly Forrest Trojans – Lucy Cronin, Adam Tunnicliffe, Lucy Cronin, Alex Jones Dancers (Spartans, athletes) – Oliver Adam-Reynolds, Oscar Fonseca Jeremy Gray (director, designs)Alicia Frost (choreography)Jess Iliff (costumes)Ian Chandler (lighting) CHROMA Thomas Blunt (conductor) Least popular of Gluck’s reform operas, Paride ed Elena shows what little store we should set on popularity. (Do not Gluck’s operas more generally?) Bampton Classical Opera once again deserves our thanks in bringing a ‘neglected’—frankly, ignored—eighteenth-century opera to performance, first in Oxfordshire and now in its annual visit to St John’s, Smith Square. That it should do so at all is praiseworthy enough, that it should do so in ‘current circumstances’ all the more so. If I found some elements of staging, costumes in particular, a little makeshift, it is not worth labouring […]
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
[…] Alicia Frost. Ella Taylor was Paris, Lucy Anderson was Helen and Lauren Lodge-Campbell was Amor. There were two cast substitutions, Milly Forrest was a very last minute stand-in for Lisa Howarth as Pallas Athene with Lucy Cronin (from the ensemble) standing in as the high priestess, and tenor Adam Tunnicliffe sang the chorus tenor from the wings whilst stage manager Harvey Evans acted. Gluck: Paris and Helen - Oliver Adam-Reynolds, Oscar Fonseca - Bampton Classical Opera (Photo Jeremy Gray) There is a lot of commonality between Paride ed Elena and Orfeo ed Euridice. Both concentrate on a trio of soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, both have a hero in a quest for his beloved and both, of course, weave in a considerable amount of dance. It is worthwhile remembering that Gluck and Calzabigi actually collaborated on four works, not just the three operas (Orfeo ed Euridice, Alceste, […]
2021-07-05 17:13:00
[…] that kind of behavior. Don't tell me nobody knew. I expect that Rzewski's behavior, especially, was well known in the field. I'm not going to cite folks who discussed this on social media, but I have no reason to disbelieve them. Frederic Rzewski, obituary in the NY Times by William Robin Frederic Rzewski, obituary in the Washington Post by Tim Page Louis Andriessen, obituary in the NY Times by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim
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