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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 […]
2020-02-04 07:29:24
New operas, a new team - Welsh National Opera approaches its 75th anniversary
Olivia Fuchs' production of Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Lucia Cervoni, Margaret Baiton, Louise Alder WNO 2017 (photo Bill Cooper) Welsh National Opera turns 75 in 2021 and its recently announced 2020/21 season sees the company approaching that milestone with a new team firmly in place; general director Aidan Lang [previously in charge of Seattle Opera, New Zealand Opera and the Buxton Festival] has been in post since July 2019 and music director Tomáš Hanus has renewed his contract to 2026, a position he took over in 2016. But that does not mean that the companies previous artistic director, Sir David Pountney, is completely out of the picture as Pountney is heavily involved in a new work being premiered in Autumn 2020, Will Todd's Migrations which forms part of the Mayflower 2020 celebrations. The opera will continue WNO's work with refugees, which began last year, and the company is also extending […]
2019-07-19 06:36:21
Leonardo Vinci's 1726 opera Siroe in its world premiere recording from the Teatro San Carlo, Naples
[…] is very much a collaboration between period and modern performance, it is presented by the Teatro San Carlo in Naples with the orchestra of the theatre conducted by Antonio Florio (who created the edition of Siroe that is used) and the continuo provided by members of Florio's Cappella Neapolitana ensemble. The cast features Carlo Alemanno as Cosroe, Leslie Visco as Medarse, Roberta Invernizzi as Elmira, Cristina Alunno as Siroe, Daniela Salvo as Laodice and Luca Cervoni as Arasse. Vinci's Siroe was premiered in 1726 in Venice, an extra at the end of the season as a result of the popularity of Vinci's previous opera. Siroe was Metastasio's second opera seria, and Metastasio thought enough of it to revise it more than once and to include one of the revised versions in his collected works. Vinci's was the first setting, with Giovanni Porta, Porpora, Sarra, Vivaldi and Handel following. It was […]
2015-11-22 23:32:00
This Week in Toronto (Nov. 23 - 29)
[…] The concert is billed as Romeo and Juliet versus West Side Story. It includes excerpts from the Prokofiev ballet and the Bernstein Broadway musical, but not the Gounod opera. Other pieces on the program include Ravel's Tzigane, a show piece for the violin, played by Angelo Xiang Yu; Prelude to Act 3 of Wagner's Lohengrin; and Chausson's Poeme for Violin and Orchestra. Nov. 28 at 7:30 pm and 29 at 3 pm. http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/concerts-and-tickets/2015-2016-Season/EventDetails/Romeo-Juliet-vs-West-Side-Story.aspx Lucia Cervoni (Julie) and Clarence Frazer (Jean) Photo: Cylla von Tiedemann The Soundstreams/Canadian Stage production of Philippe Boesmans' Julie continues this week at the Bluma Appel Theatre in St. Lawrence Centre. Composed in 2005, it's the third operatic adaptation of the August Strindberg play after American Ned Rorem (1965) and Brit William Alwyn (1977). This 75 minute chamber opera stars an All-Canadian cast of mezzo Lucia Cervoni (Lucia), Clarence Frazer (Jean) and Sharleen Joynt (Christine). Matthew […]
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