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2023-12-01 10:37:00
Monteverdi's first opera, the historically informed Ring Cycle continues, Bruckner's 200th birthday, composer Sven Helbig live - Dresden's 47th music festival
Wagner: Das Rheingold - Derek Welton, Kent Nagano, Mauro Peter, Daniel Schmutzhard, Concerto Köln & Dresdner Festspielorchester - Dresden Music Festival 2023The 47th Dresden Music Festival runs from 9 May to 9 June 2024 under the title Horizons, presenting 60 events in 21 venues in and around Dresden. Things kick off in fine style with a concert performance of Wagner's Die Walküre with Kent Nagano conducting the combined forces of two period instrument ensembles, the Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln, a continuation of the festival's exploration of an historically informed Ring Cycle that began last year with Des Rheingold [see my review]. Further historically informed performances include soprano Janine de Bique and Concerto Köln in arias by Handel, Graun, Broschi, Telemann and Vinci, Haydn's The Seasons with Jordi Savall and La Capella Nacional de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations, Mark Minkowski and the Dresdner Festspielorchester in Wagner, Mendelssohn and excerpts from Offenbach's rare grand opera Die Rheinnixen. The ensemble lautten […]
2022-08-02 07:30:00
Handel’s Alcina - a ‘first’ for Glyndebourne - joins other great Handel gems in the company’s repertoire such as Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo and Theodora
Handel: Alcina - Samantha Hankey, Beth Taylor, Soraya Mafi, Jane Archibald - Glyndebourne Opera (Photo Tristram Kenton)Handel: Alcina; Jane Archibald, Samantha Hankey, Soraya Mafi, Beth Taylor, Rowan Pierce, director: Francesco Micheli, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor: Jonathan Cohen; Glyndebourne OperaReviewed 24 July 2022 (★★★★★) Italian-born director, Francesco Micheli, brings style and sumptuous excess to Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s wonderful and lush staging of Handel’s Alcina Our correspondent, Tony Cooper, provides a second view of Glyndebourne's production of Handel's Alcina directed by Francesco Micheli with Jane Archibald in the title role. Tony saw a cast that included Samantha Hankey as Ruggiero, see Robert's review of the production with Svetlina Stoyanova as Ruggiero.Handel loosely based the libretto for Alcina on Riccardo Broschi’s opera, L’isola d’Alcina, set to a libretto by Antonio Fanzaglia. The original source of the story, however, comes from Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem, Orlando furioso, the source, too, for such other Handel delights as Orlando and […]
2021-11-19 11:30:00
[…] life. That was one of the few times I was publicly able to do that. I would say that I got to show more in this album. The baroque heroines you have chosen for the album are marked by the seal of recognition. What are their personal journeys? Their journeys are so fast because we only have three hours to go through every single emotion during an opera function. Composers like Haendel or Broschi master very well to show a character’s life so clear and vivid. Look at Cleopatra: you see her fall in love and then go through fear of losing her love, and then finally actively getting what she wants. There is always more to the story than what we see in the beginning. They are like every other woman, deserving love, wanting love, needing to be loved. They feel that there is something more for […]
2021-03-01 08:24:05
To delight the eyes and ears without the risk of sinning against reason or common sense: the creation of Reform Opera
[…] large scale. There are hints that Teseo might have been intended to include other French elements, such as dance, but did not. This would not be the last time that Handel's unfettered creative imagination would be limited by his English aristocratic patrons. A synthesis of French and Italian styles in Stuttgart Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1770) was an Italian composer from the influential Neapolitan school that not only produced castratos such as Farinelli (Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi, 1705-1782) but composers like Niccolo Porpora (1686-1768) who wrote dazzling vehicles for the star singers. Jommelli, however, would move in another direction. His large output of operas was written for Rome, Venice, Bologna, and other Italian cities, often setting the librettos of Metastasio. But in 1753, Jommelli was made Kapellmeister to Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg in Stuttgart, and Jommelli wrote several operas for the Duke which were premiered in the theatre in the […]
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