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2023-06-12 20:46:00
Leipzig Opera. Handel's Giulio Cesare. June 11, 2023.
Leipzig Oper. Opernhaus Saal, Leipzig. Parkett links (Row 14-33, 56 euros).Selfie taken at intermission. We have know David and Vivian since our Cornell days in the 1970s.Story. See previous post.Ruben Dubrovsky - Conductor. Giulio Cesare - Yuriy Mynenko, Cornelia - Ulrike Schneider, Sesto - Kathrin Goring, Cleopetra - Olga Jelinkova, Tolomeo - Remy Bres, Achilla - Franz Xavier Schlecht/Matthias Hoffmann.While Bach Fest continues in Leipzig, Handel Festival is happening in the nearby town of Halle. Tonight's opera was also part of the Handel Festival. We enjoyed very much our encounter with the opera about 10 years ago at the Met, so were looking forward to this event.Unfortunately the performance didn't have English surtitles, and despite having read the synopsis, having seen the opera before, and having David explain to us the plot, we were quite lost during the close-to-three hours of music and acting. Things on stage do not unfold at […]
2022-04-03 04:12:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 3, 2022
[…] cellist Sunny Yang make up the Kronos Quartet, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in the 2023-24 season.For more information, visit https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2022/04/23/Kronos-Quartet-0930PM--Katy Salomon, Morahan Arts and MediaThird Coast Baroque's LuciferaChicago early-music ensemble Third Coast Baroque will mark its pandemic-delayed return to full-scale mainstage productions with "Lucifera: Illuminating the Darkness," a new project conceived and headlined by mesmerizing mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux, with the period-instrument Third Coast Baroque Orchestra, led by its Argentina-born, Vienna-based music director Rubén Dubrovsky conducting from the colascione, a lute-like instrument rarely seen in North America.Lucifera takes its name from the mythical feminine “bringer of light,” Genaux says. Through a carefully curated program of arias, Genaux sets out to illuminate some of Baroque opera’s darker, bolder, and more complexly rendered female protagonists and their struggles.“The women of Lucifera are multifaceted and strong,” Genaux says. “Through this beautiful music, they display their emotions in the deepest possible manner, illustrating their suffering, […]
2021-06-01 18:07:03
The hyper-lyrical, gloriously old-school Russian tenor Ivan Kozlovsky sings an aria from Eduard Nápravik's Dubrovsky (1895). Via the omniaudient David Shengold.
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