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2024-04-08 15:20:00
Deadly Sins in New York and Silver Lion in Venice: Ensemble Modern
Wallis Giunta (Photo: Dario Accosta)Ensemble Modern is currently on a small tour of the USA with concerts in Houston and New York including Carnegie Hall. Under conductor HK Gruber the ensemble with mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta and a-cappella ensemble amarcord, will be presenting Kurt Weill's Die Sieben Todsünden, in a new version for chamber ensemble, plus music by Paul Hindemith, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Arnold Schoenberg. A second programme in New York will focus on Cuban-American composer Tania León alongside transcriptions of Conlon Nancarrow's player-piano studies.In September, Ensemble Modern will be at the Biennale Musica di Venezia 2024 and will be receiving the festival's Silver Lion whilst Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement has been awarded to the composer Rebecca Saunders. On September 26, Ensemble Modern opens the festival at the Teatro La Fenice together with the Orchestra del Teatro under the baton of Tito Ceccherini, performing Rebecca Saunders' Wound. On September 28, Ensemble Modern […]
2023-08-17 16:57:00
[…] Fanyo and Alexandre Duhamel join an exquisite cinematic journey into the sights, sounds, and history of the City of Lights.Renée Fleming’s Cities that Sing: Venice, the second of two immersive opera experiences Filmed for IMAX in theatres one-day-only on September 16. A journey through the music and culture of Venice, follow the American Soprano on a guided tour of Venice as seen through the lens of opera history, with musical performances at the legendary Teatro La Fenice by Fleming, Francesco Meli, Mattia Olivieri, Paola Gardina, with Orchestra Del Teatro La Fenice conducted by Riccardo Frizza. IMAX announces the release of Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing: Paris for one-day-only on August 26. The second installment of the series, Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing: Venice releases one-day-only on September 16. The full-length films feature American soprano Renée Fleming as she explores Paris and Venice through the lens of opera. Presented by IMAX and Stage Access, directed by Francois-René Martin […]
2023-02-25 00:00:00
Maderna: Requiem
Bruno Maderna (1920-1973)Requiem (1946)Carmela Remigio soprano, Veronica Simeoni mezzosoprano, Mario Zeffiri tenor, Simone Alberghini bassCoro e Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di VeneziaAndrea MolinoRecording of the world premiere, 2009Stradivarius STR 37180 (2020) DOWNLOAD
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 […]
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