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Brazilian conductor, composer, pianist and music educator
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2023-11-13 07:42:00
Plenty of food for thought & some terrific singing: Oliver Mears' staging of Handel's Jephtha at the Royal Opera with a towering performance from Allan Clayton in the title role
Handel: Jephtha - Jennifer France - Royal Opera House (Photo: Marc Brenner)Handel: Jephtha; Allan Clayton, Alice Coote, Jennifer France, Cameron Shahbazi, Brindley Sherratt, director: Oliver Mears, conductor: Laurence Cummings; Royal Opera HouseReviewed 10 November 2023An incandescent performance by Allan Clayton in the title role with superb support the other soloists anchors the imaginative if flawed dramatic recreation of Handel's final oratorioIn adapting the story of Jephtha from the Bible for a dramatic work for Handel, the librettist Thomas Morell had to use quite a bit of imagination, to create a three hour drama out of the relatively curt Biblical references. A fine classicist, Morrell introduced elements from Greek drama, creating a work that it is tempting to see as naturally having a place on the stage. Concert performances of Handel's Jephtha are relatively common and I have seen many fine incarnations of the title role including John Mark Ainsley at the […]
2022-03-14 12:55:15
Antonio Carlos Ribeiro Barbosa-Lima was born in 1944, in São Paulo, Brazil, to a pharmaceutical salesman father and homemaker mother. At age seven, with no musical training, he began playing the guitar his father was trying to learn. Throughout his childhood, he studied with Isaias Sávio, an Uruguayan guitar teacher who settled in Brazil […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-03-10 21:14:18
A virtuoso since his teenage years, he performed concerts that ranged from classical repertory to Brazilian music to the Beatles and Broadway.
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