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2023-09-20 14:47:00
The Academy of Ancient Music celebrates its 50th anniversary with a short film. Tony Cooper reports.
[…] hall, AAM is committed to nurturing the audiences, artists and arts managers of the future through their innovative education initiative AAMplify. Working with music colleges and universities across the UK, AAM engages with the next generation of period instrumentalists with side-by-side sessions, masterclasses and other opportunities designed to bridge the gap between the conservatoire and the profession, safeguarding the future of historical performance. Proudly holding positions of associate ensemble at London’s Barbican Centre and at Venice’s Teatro San Cassiano, AAM is also orchestra-in-residence at the University of Cambridge, The Apex, Bury St Edmunds and at Milton Abbey International Summer Music Festival in Dorset. Full details from the AAM website.
2021-02-08 14:38:38
Berg, Cavalli 2020
[…] Dmitry Shostakovich writing an opera based on the story and the famous director Vsevolod Meyerhold attempting to stage it. Most of the musical score of this full-length animation is from Shostakovich’s opera. Francesco Cavalli was also born this week, on February 14th of 1602. He stood at the beginning of opera: his first one, Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo, was composed in 1639 and was only the third opera to be performed in Teatro San Cassiano, the very first opera house to be built for the public and inaugurated in 1637. In the following 27 years Teatro San Cassiano staged 15 more operas, 14 of which were composed by Cavalli. La Didone was Cavalli’s third opera, composed and staged at San Cassiano in 1641. Here’s the marvelous Frederica von Stade is singing the beautiful L'alma fiacca svanì, Cassandra’s Lamentation, from Act I. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is conducted […]
2019-11-28 05:00:49
Paul Atkin, an accountant turned entrepreneur, wants to construct the Teatro San Cassiano under difficult circumstances
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