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contralto opera singer (born 1980)
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2022-01-31 08:03:51
Loving & pretending: Alessandro Stradella's opera Amare e fingere explores the 17th centuries fascination with Arcadia, love & dissimulation
Alessandro Stradella: Amare e fingere; Mauro Borgioni, Paola Valentina Molinari, Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Luca Cervoni, Chiara Brunello, Silvia Frigato, Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea de Carlo; Arcana Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 31 January 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A relatively recent discovery, one of Stradella's earlier operas on disc for the first time in an engagingly vivid performanceThe composer Alessandro Stradella is perhaps still best known for his dissolute life than his compositions, though his output stretched to around 300 works in a variety of genres. When it comes to his operas, if they were considered at all it was the ones he wrote later in his career for Genoa. But thanks to recent scholarship we know that Stradella's engagement with opera dates back to earlier in his career. During the 1670s he worked in Rome (where he had been brought up) until having to flee the city […]
2018-06-18 08:36:24
Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at The Grange Festival
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia - Charles Rice & chorus - The Grange Festival (Photo Simon Annand) Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia; John Irvin, Jose Maria Lo Monaco, Charles Rice, Riccardo Novaro, dir: Stephen Barlow, cond: David Parry; The Grange Festival Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 17 June 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A busily engaging and highly theatrical account of Rossini's comedy Jose Maria Lo MonacoThe Grange Festival (Photo Simon Annand) On a rather grim, cold evening The Grange Festival's lively new production of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia certainly brought a welcome feeling of brightness and warmth. Directed by Stephen Barlow, designed by Andrew D Edwards with lighting by Howard Hudson, cast featured the American tenor John Irvin as Count Almaviva, the Italian mezzo-soprano Jose Maria Lo Monaco as Rosina, the Anglo-French baritone Charles Rice as Figaro and the Italian baritone Riccardo […]
2017-08-12 01:00:00
L’Orfeo Emanuela Galli, Mirko Guadagnini, Marina De Liso, Cristina Calzolari, Matteo Bellotto, José Lo Monaco, Salvo Vitale La Venexiana Claudio Cavina 2006 Flac, cue • partial scans (not mine, thanks to Jodak) L’Incoronazione di Poppea Emanuela Galli, Roberta Mameli, José Maria Lo Monaco, Xenia Meijer, Raffaele Costantini La Venexiana Claudio Cavina 2011 Flac, cue, digital booklet Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, José Maria Lo Monaco, Roberta Mameli, Makoto Sakurada, Salvo Vitale La Venexiana Claudio Cavina Flac, cue • scans (not mine, thanks to Jodak)
2013-05-08 20:54:50
The George Enescu Festival: Hitting A High Note in Romanian Culture
The George Enescu Festival: Hitting A High Note in Romanian Culture by Claudia Moscovici The George Enescu Festival in Bucharest is not only a highlight in Romanian culture, but also one of the most exciting and biggest classical music festivals in Europe. Named after the prestigious Romanian composer and violinist George Enescu (1881-1955), who is best known for his Romanian Rhapsodies, the festival focuses on Enescu’s work and offers the best in classical music, internationally. Every two years, for several weeks during the month of September, Bucharest becomes the classical music capital of Europe. George Enescu and his friend and collaborator George Georgescu organized the first festival in 1958. Although the festival was banned for a period of time during Ceausescu’s dictatorship, it has been reestablished and grown since the Romanian revolution of 1989. It is organized by its Artistic Director Ioan Holender, Artexim, ArClub–The Center for Cultural […]
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