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Engaging & involving: Christophe Rousset & Les Talens Lyriques release Thésée as their 12th Lully opera album
[…] her love for him, Médée is furious and tries to kill him. Médée is, however, the ultimate bad girl of opera and rather than getting her comeuppance, departs, furious, in a chariot drawn by flying dragons.The work is one of Lully and Quinault's most engaging, with a remarkable variety in the drama. So that, in Act One, where we have the exposition of plot with Égée and Églé, plus Églé's confidante Cleone and her suitor, Arcas, but interrupted by repeated choruses of warriors, creating something more striking than often the case in Lully's operas. Despite the constraints of the genre, with the need for grand ensemble scenes with ballets, there is plenty of scope to explore the characters' inner feelings. And in Act Four, for instance, when Églé has to pretend to not love Thésée in order to shelter them from Médée's violence, the drama unfolds in a series of […]
2023-09-04 07:10:00
[…] La Guerre's Céphale et Procris was performed at Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn Festival (seen 30 August) by Marcio da Silva's Ensemble OrQuesta with Kieran White as Céphale and Poppy Shotts as Procris. The dynamic one-man force of nature that is Marcio da Silva has committed everything in his power towards the success of this production, directing, conducting, producing a new edition of the score, performing in the orchestra and even appearing in the small role of Arcas. It can't be denied that the production has some successful moments. Although the nature of the drama strived and ultimately failed to escape its 17th Century sensibilities, it still had plenty of elegance, style and moved through the many short musical episodes with a surefooted and rapid pace.One of the criticisms levelled at this opera in the past was the poor literary quality of the libretto, and its confused plot, and the clunky translations […]
2016-10-20 01:52:24
By Lucía Vélez His complete name was Francisco de Asís Tárrega Eixea. He was born in Villareal, a city in Castellón, on 21st November 1852. He had an accident when he was young that changed his life: he fell into a canal and his sight got damaged. His father, afraid because of his son could be blind, moved to Castellón, for him to take music lessons. There, he started to play the guitar and got guitar lessons with Julián Arcas. Some years after that, he moved again, to Madrid, and started to play the piano in Madrid’s conservatory. He continued playing the guitar. He also studied composition with Emilio Arrieta. In 1869 he got an exceptional instrument, a special guitar built by Antonio Torres, and with it he gave some concerts in Paris and London in 1880. At the end of 19th century, he did lots of tours, doing at the […]
2015-02-11 18:06:22
Mourning becomes Iphigenia
[…] Yunpeng Wang, the Agamemnon, mostly knit his brow to imply the anguish of a frustrated father, but his tormented climactic monologue drew cheers. In small roles that did not give them nearly as much to do as they deserved, we heard Liv Redpath as Diane, Angela Vallone as a tuneful slave, Brandon Cedel as the dignified (not, as usual, devious) Calchas, who brings Agamemnon the bad news, Takaoki Onishi as Patrocle and Sava Vemic as Arcas. Arcas is a nothing role, but Vemic’s few phrases made the whole house sit up, just as he did in the similar role of Raleigh in the OONY Roberto Devereux last spring. Somebody give this guy an aria, for gosh sake; I want to hear where he takes it. With the orchestra at the center and the chorus along the sides of the stage, David Paul had his hands full trying to indicate the […]
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