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It’s good to see Naxos reissuing some of its Marco Polo ballet rarities. Adolphe Adam’s La Filleule des fées (The Fairies’ God-daughter) is a delightful, full-length pastoral ballet. You don’t want to know the plot. There are good and bad fairies, a Horny god-daughter, lots of rustic atmosphere, and everyone dances a lot. What matters […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-03-14 15:04:20
Why Are There So Many Movies About Horny Dancers Going Insane And Killing Each Other?
Just in the past year, there’s been Red Sparrow, Suspiria, and Climax. “What is it about dancers that inspires filmmakers to depict them in various forms of total destruction? And, most importantly, how closely do these films hew to real life? In other words, are all dancers really just Horny, deranged murderers?” Rachel Handler asks […]
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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 […]
2017-04-30 21:58:00
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