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2023-12-08 08:53:00
An Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, Italian and a German find themselves on a desert island: Bampton Classical Opera explores Alcina's Island
[…] the premiere in Florence also featured a horse ballet though alas modern performances of the opera have not attempted to include this. It was staged in 2015 by BREMF [see my review]. Caccini's opera treats the subject quite lightly, and it is clear that Ariosto's characters were regarded as entertainment, with a moral perhaps, but definitely something to be enjoyed and not worried over. In 1772 another Alcina-inspired opera, L’isola d’Alcina, was premiered at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, this was by ;Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743-1718). Gazzaniga is now perhaps best known for his 1787 opera, Don Giovanni, whose text inspired Mozart and Da Ponte's opera. Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni was definitely comic, and his treatment of Alcina is similar.In Gazzaniga's opera an Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, Italian and German get washed up on Alcina’s magical island where the seductive and beautiful sorceress (although 800 years old) has a habit of discarding her […]
2021-08-15 08:47:09
Making the most of opportunity: a brilliant young cast in Rossini's early farsa with British Youth Opera
Rossini: L’occasione fa il ladro - Laura Fleur, Patrick Alexander Keefe,Sam Harris, Helen Francis Corlett - British Youth Opera Rossini L’occasione fa il ladro; Aimée Fisk, Laura Fleur, Brenton Spiteri, Sam Harris, Patrick Alexander Keefe, Joe Chalmer, dir: Victoria Newlyn, Southbank Sinfonia, cond: Peter Robinson; British Youth Opera at Opera Holland Park Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 August 2021 An evening which mixed light-hearted intent with taking Rossini's music seriously, to brilliant effect from a vibrant young castRossini's opera L’occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia (literally 'Opportunity Makes a Thief, or The Exchanged Suitcase' but memorably translated by Opera North in 2004 as 'Love's Luggage Lost') is a one-act burletta per musica or farsa which premiered in 1812 at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice (founded in 1620 and where a number of operas by Cavalli, Vivaldi and Galuppi premiered), one of five such […]
2021-03-19 08:03:44
Rare comic Rossini and immersive Humperdinck: British Youth Opera's Summer season in the park
This Summer Britsh Youth Opera will be performing at Opera Holland Park (OHP) for the first time, taking advantage of OHP's specially reconfigured theatre and giving ten performances during August. Two operas are being performed Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. Rossini's L’occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia (Opportunity Makes a Thief, or The Exchanged Suitcase) is a one-act farsa written in 1812, one of five such comic pieces that the young composer (he was all of 20!) wrote for the Teatro San Moisè, Venice. Victoria Newlyn will direct BYO's production which will be sung in English. Sets and costumes are by Madeleine Boyd, and Peter Robinson conducts. Rossini's early one-act farse were very popular in his lifetime but effectively disappeared after his death though they are now more frequently revived. BYO has performed some of Rossini's other farse, whilst L'occasione fa il ladro […]
2017-08-02 03:07:00
[…] Greece, the XVIIIth century and our time; in his own terms it was well done, with adequate stage design by Gastón Joubert, costumes by Isabel Gual and lighting by Rubén Conde, plus projections by Natalio Ríos. "La scala di seta" ("The silk ladder") is one of the funniest Rossini one-acters. It was written for Venice´s Teatro San Moisè in 1813 with libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa based on a French text by Planard for an opera by Pierre Gaveaux (1808). Rossini was only 21; his style was already unmistakable, with his famous "crescendo" and the ability to concoct ensembles intercrossing the characters´ bewildered feelings, plus the witty fast pieces and the cantabile ones. I had an early contact with this creation back in 1964 […]
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