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A longtime collaborator with La Monnaie, Boesmans started there in 1985, serving under general directors Gerard Mortier, Bernard Foccroulle, and Peter de Caluwe. Gerard Mortier commissioned several of his works, including La Passion de Gilles (1983), the Trakl-Lieder (1987) and the 1989 orchestration of L’Incoronazione di Poppea de Monteverdi. Bernard Foccroulle, in 1993, then commissioned a new opera, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2019-01-14 19:05:00
Francesco Cavalli: Erismena – Francesca Aspromonte, Carlo Vistoli, Susanna Hurrell, Jakub Józef Orliński, Alexander Miminoshvili, Lea Desandre, Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore, Stuart Jackson, Tai Oney, Jonathan Abernethy – Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón (HD 1080p)
[…] well as one with an English translation, also dated to the 17th century.Source: en.wikipedia.org✻Erismena is an opera by Francesco Cavalli that was a big hit in 1655. Its popular appeal has dropped somewhat since then and it is almost never produced these days. But the Aix-en-Provence Festival is giving this rarity an outstanding production and the Festival gets a laurel wreath for intelligent and aggressive programming. A world premiere of Pinocchio, an opera by Philippe Boesmans, the production of a very early opera and three familiar works, Carmen, Don Giovanni and The Rake's Progress, cover a lot of ground, to say the least.Erismena is a product of its period. A complex story is told through accompanied recitatives and "songs" but this is before the development of the aria so don't expect lengthy da capo cadenzas.The language of the opera is ornate, colourful and formulaic. All emotions are extreme. They love, […]
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