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Czech composer, doctor and choirmaster (1873-1963)
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Faces of classical music
2019-01-22 20:03:00
George Frideric Handel: Rodelinda – Jeanine De Bique, Tim Mead, Benjamin Hulett, Avery Amereau, Jakub Józef Orliński, Andrea Mastroni – Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (HD 1080p)
Even by usual standards of patently implausible baroque opera plots, "Rodelinda" reaches new heights of Delphic abstruseness. William Hartston in the London Express described Handel's 19th opera as "everyone wanting to marry or kill everyone else".Regardless of Hartston's hyperbole, confusion certainly abounds. A Penelope-esque wife erroneously thinks her husband is dead not once, but twice. The two principal protagonists mope around in a fiortura funk for most of the narrative. The imprisoned deposed-king mistakenly tries to kill his liberator. A betrothed couple separately renege. A cynical usurper is pardoned with "Clemenza di Tito-like" magnanimity. The names of many of the characters are unpronounceable and the happy ending beggars belief. That said, "Rodelinda" contains some of the most marvelous operatic music Handel ever wrote.Regisseur Jean Bellorini's solution to the manifold dramaturgical conundrums was to transform a quasi-Greek tragedy into a variegated Legoland kindergarten.In his program notes, Bellorini explains "We are in […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-01-14 19:05:00
Francesco Cavalli: Erismena – Francesca Aspromonte, Carlo Vistoli, Susanna Hurrell, Jakub Józef Orliński, Alexander Miminoshvili, Lea Desandre, Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore, Stuart Jackson, Tai Oney, Jonathan Abernethy – Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón (HD 1080p)
Erismena is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a dramma per musica. The Italian libretto was by Aurelio Aureli, the only work by this writer for Cavalli.Erismena is the first full-length opera known to have been translated into English and may have been first performed in England in 1674.It was first performed in Venice at the Teatro Sant' Apollinare on 30 December 1655 with further performances between that date and 28 February 1656. Cavalli revised the work in 1670. Both versions have survived as well as one with an English translation, also dated to the 17th century.Source: en.wikipedia.org✻Erismena is an opera by Francesco Cavalli that was a big hit in 1655. Its popular appeal has dropped somewhat since then and it is almost never produced these days. But the Aix-en-Provence Festival is giving this rarity an outstanding production and the Festival […]
2018-10-18 00:23:00
Sergio Mims: Watch Jeanine De Bique in Handel's "Rodelinda"
Jeanine De Bique Rodelinda Sergio A. Mims writes: I know you and your readers will be interested in this. This is the performance taped yesterday of Jeanine De Bique singing the lead in Handel's Rodelinda at the Opera De Lille in France. It'll be available on the Culturebox website for viewing for a year. RodelindaOpera in three acts by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)Libretto Nicola Francesco Haym after Antonio Salvi and CorneilleConductor Emmanuelle HaïmDirector Jean BelloriniCollaboration to the stage direction Mathieu CoblentzSets Jean Bellorini, Véronique ChazalCostumes Macha MakeïeffLights Luc MuscilloAssistants to the musical direction, repetitorBenoît Hartoin, Elisabeth GeigerWithRodelinda Jeanine De BiqueBertarido Tim MeadGrimoaldo Benjamin HulettEduige Avery AmereauUnolfo Jakub Józef OrlińskiGaribaldo Andrea MastroniLe Concert d’Astrée
2017-07-26 15:38:00
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (5) - L’Erismena, 15 July 2017
Images: Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2017 © Pascal Victor / artcompress Théâtre du Jeu de Paume Erismena – Francesca Aspromonte Idraspe – Carlo Vistoli Aldimira – Susanna Hurrell Orimeneo – Jakub Józef Orliński Erimante – Alexander Miminoshvili Flerida – Lea Desandre Argippo – Andrea Bonsignore Alcesta – Stuart Jackson Clerio Moro – Tai Oney Diarte – Jonathan Abernethy Jean Bellorini (director, lighting, set designs) Véronique Chazal (set designs) Macha Makeïeff (costumes) Cappella Mediterranea Leonardo García Alarcón (conductor) Whose first thought when Cavalli is mentioned is anything other than Raymond Leppard? Certainly not mine. Whilst many, indeed pretty much all, such associations will be simplifications of varying degrees of grossness, and some bizarrely, often chauvinistically, incorrect – Bernstein and Mahler, for instance – Leppard’s role in the rediscovery and revival of Cavalli’s operas can hardly be gainsaid. What I should have given to hear one of […]
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