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Franco-Flemish composer, organist and Kapellmeister of the High Renaissance
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2023-07-19 10:41:00
Munich Opera Festival (1) - Così fan tutte, 17 July 2023
Nationaltheater Fiordiligi – Louise Alder Dorabella – Avery Amereau Guglielmo/Gulielmo – Konstantin Krimmel Ferrando – Sebastian Kohlhepp/Jonas Hacker Despina – Sandrine Piau Don Alfonso – Johannes Martin Kränzle Benedict Andrews (director) Magda Willi (set designs) Victoria Behr (costumes) Mark Van Denesse (lighting) Katja Leclerc (dramaturgy) Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Kamila Akhmedjanova) Bavarian State Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) Images: ©Wilfried HöslDon Alfonso (Johannes Martin Kränzle), Despina (Sandrine Piau) It is refreshing to find a Così fan tutte that takes the very greatest of Mozart and Da Ponte’s three masterpieces (for the most part) seriously. The amount of nonsense I have seen and heard said of it at least matches that for Don Giovanni. That the nonsense may be genuinely ‘felt’ is neither here nor there, we are not supposed to say that; uninformed misunderstanding is just that, whether it concern an artwork, politics, or particle physics. Benedict Andrews’s […]
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2019-12-13 17:20:00
Jakub Józef Orliński: A Millennial Countertenor's Pop-Star Appeal
By Rebecca MeadNew Yorker — July 15, 2019Jakub Józef Orliński brings a swooning sultriness – and a bunch of break-dancing moves – to the Baroque-music revival.Shortly after Jakub Józef Orliński, a young Polish countertenor, made his début at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, in a 2017 production of Cavalli's "Erismena", he was celebrating with several other singers when he got a phone call from one of the event's organizers. An ensemble scheduled to appear the next day on a live broadcast of "Carrefour de Lodéon", a French radio program, had dropped out. Would Orliński jump in and perform? Orliński, who was twenty-six at the time, was in high spirits, having played the role of Orimeno with goofy, irrepressible energy. He'd made his first entrance by leaping onto a chair, launching into a jaunty aria, and then – exhibiting a skill singular among opera singers – throwing himself into a sequence of break-dancing […]
2019-09-26 20:13:15
Anglais - Top Music Making and Performances in Agrippina at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Agrippina of 1709 is the second opera that Handel wrote in Italy, and his first notable operatic success. Set in Ancient Rome, it sees the title character, who is the wife of the Emperor Claudio, take steps to ensure that her son from her first marriage, Nerone, is crowned Emperor when news reaches her that Claudio has been killed at sea. After, however, manipulating the freedmen Pallante and Narciso to hail Nerone as Emperor in front of the Senate, the commander Ottone arrives proclaiming that he actually saved Claudio from drowning. Agrippina is horrified to hear that, in gratitude, Claudio has appointed Ottone Emperor, but when he admits that power means nothing and all he craves is the beautiful Poppea she hatches a plan. Knowing that Claudio also desires Poppea, Agrippina tells Poppea that Ottone struck a bargain to give her up to Claudio in return for the throne. […]
2019-07-25 06:51:54
Mio caro Händel: a very personal project from soprano Simone Kermes on Sony Classical
Mio caro Händel; Simone Kermes, Amici Veneziani; Sony Classical Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 July 2019 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) A very personal journey though Handel's music from soprano Simone KermesOn this very personal project, soprano Simone Kermes sings a selection arias from Handel's operas and oratorio for a disc from Sony Classical, accompanied by Amici Veneziani, an ensemble Kermes founded in 2017 and led by concertmaster Boris Begelman. We get arias from the operas Rinaldo, Giulio Cesare, Amadigi di Gaula, Serse, Teseo, Rodelinda, Deidamia, and Lotario, from the oratorios Le Resurrezione, Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, Athalia, Saul and The Triumph of Time and Truth, and one of the Nine German Arias. The CD booklet starts with a long and personal note from Kermes about her admiration and love for Handel's music and how it is intertwined with hers. This can seem a […]
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