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2023-12-18 19:35:00
Ascanio in Alba, Oper Frankfurt, 17 December 2023
Bockenheimer DepotVenus – Kateryna Kasper Ascanio – Cecilia Hall Silvia – Karolina Bengtsson Aceste – Andrew Kim Fauno – Anna Nekhames Secretary – Aijan Ryskulova Bodyguard – Stefan Biaesch Silvia’s friends – Valentina Ziegler, Isabel Casás RamaNina Brazier (director)Christoph Fischer (set design)Henriette Hübschmann (costumes)Jonathan Pickers (lighting)Deborah Einspieler (dramaturgy)Vocal Ensemble (recorded)Frankfurt Opera and Museum OrchestraAlden Gatt (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausAceste (Andrew Kim), Silvia (Karolina Bengtsson), Venus (Kateryna Kasper), Ascanio (Cecelia Hall), Fauno (Anna Nekhames) It is not every day I get to hear a Mozart opera live for the first time. And yet, this year 2023, some time after my first year of opera-going, I have done so twice: Il re pastore at this year’s Salzburg Festival, albeit in concert performance, and now Oper Frankfurt’s new Ascanio in Alba, directed by Nina Brazier and conducted by Alden Gatt. Two to go, but another two ticked off the list—not that I ever wish […]
2022-01-27 16:13:56
Inspired by the Sistine Chapel: Peter Phillips & The Tallis Scholars explore some of the riches written for the Papal choir
The choir loft of the Sistine Chapel in the early 17th century (1848 copy by Ingres of a painting by Agostino Tassi) Inspired by the Sistine Chapel; Palestrina, Morales, Festa, Carpentras, Allegri, Josquin; The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips; Cadogan Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 26 January 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Music by Palestrina and his contemporaries showing off the richness of the treasures performed by the Sistine Chapel ChoirA whole host of musicians worked for the Sistine Chapel Choir, leaving a wealth of music that was written specifically for the choir. Often not well known, because the manuscripts were jealously guarded by the Popes, this is a repertoire usually known simply for a few highlights. At Cadogan Hall on Wednesday 26 January 2021, the Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips presented Inspired by the Sistine Chapel, a programme of music written for the Sistine Chapel Choir. […]
2021-03-31 14:27:09
The Japan Chamber Music Foundation has canceled the 2021 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Festa due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. "Postponed from the original date last year, we have been preparing for the Competition and Festa to be held this May," a statement by the Japan Chamber Music Foundation said. "However, with COVID-19 is […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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
The old Burgtheater in Vienna where Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice was premiered in1762(Photograph taken pre-1880) When Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ranieri de' Calzabigi premiered Orfeo ed Euridice at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1762, the work showcased a new operatic style which merged elements of French and Italian opera, eschewed the virtuosity and many of the dramatic conventions of classic opera seria and prized emotion over display. It can often seem as if their type of opera, Reform Opera, sprang into life fully formed. But the Reform movement was one which had slowly gathered force across Europe during the mid-18th century, involving a pleasure-loving German duke, an English actor, an Italian singer coached by Handel, a French choreographer, and an Italian theorist, not to mention three or four different composers. All these contributed to the 'perfect storm' that was the Reform movement in Vienna. […]
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