Menu

45 search results for…

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2023 Review: Juditha Triumphans

https://operawire.com/innsbruck-early-music-festival-2023-review-juditha-triumphans/

(Photo: Birgit Gufler) At the final curtain call of the Innsbruck Early Music Festival’s splendid production of Vivaldi’s only surviving oratorio, “Judtha Triumphans,” the loudest acclamation was reserved for its conductor, Alessandro De Marchi. After 13 years as its artistic director, he is stepping down from the position. The genuine warmth the festival audience showed towards De Marchi was clearly {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2023 Review: L’Olimpiade

https://operawire.com/innsbruck-early-music-festival-2023-review-lolimpiade/

(Photo: Birgit Gufler) After 13 years in the post, Alessandro De Marchi brings his tenure as the artistic director of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music to a close with a program dominated by the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi. Not only do many of the festival’s events feature his music, including the festival’s closing concert “Lieto Fine,” but all three {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2022 Review: Cesti Competition

https://operawire.com/innsbruck-early-music-festival-2022-review-cesti-competition/

(Photo: Die Fotografen) The Innsbruck Early Music Festival’s Cesti Competition, now in its 13th year, continues to cement its standing as a prestige international singing competition for baroque specialists. The final, which took place in Innsbruck’s Haus der Musik in front of an enthusiastic audience, consisted of 10 singers from six countries, comprising two countertenors, five sopranos, two tenors and {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2022 Review: Astarto

https://operawire.com/innsbruck-early-music-festival-2022-review-astarto/

(Photo: Birgit Gufler) Whenever Silvia Paoli’s name is listed as the director for a forthcoming production, one can be fairly certain that it is not going to disappoint. Over the past few years, OperaWire has reviewed a number of her productions, all of which were not just marvelously entertaining, but also very insightful. She has the not-so-common ability to get {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2021 Review: Pastorelle en Musique

https://operawire.com/innsbruck-early-music-festival-2021-review-pastorelle-en-musique/

(Photo: Birgit Gufler) Following on from the previous evening’s heavy and unremittingly dark production of Mattheson’s “Boris Goudenow,” the Innsbruck Early Music Festival continued with a fresh, vibrant, and colorful performance of Telemann’s one-act serenata “Pastorelle en Musique,” written between 1713 – 1716, based on Mollière’s “Les Amants magnifiques.” As with “Boris Goudenow” the work was lost and has only {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2021 Review: Boris Goudenow

https://operawire.com/innsbruck-early-music-festival-2021-review-boris-goudenow/

(Photo: Birgit Gufler) In 1874 Mussorgsky’s ‘Boris Godunov’ received its premiere at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre. Yet, he was not the first to write an opera of that name, 164 years earlier in 1710 Johann Mattheson completed his version of “Boris Goudenow,” but for reasons which are now unclear it was not performed during the composer’s lifetime, and ended up {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2021 Review: Idalma

https://operawire.com/innsbruck-early-music-festival-2021-review-idalma/

(Photo: Birgit Gufler) Bernardo Pasquini (1637 – 1710) is not a particularly well-known name in opera circles, yet in his day he was considered the foremost composer of dramatic works for the stage in Rome, with his high point coming in the 1670s and 80s, after which he was slowly displaced by, amongst others, Alessandro Scarlatti. As well as 15 {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2020 Review: La Pellegrina

https://operawire.com/innsbruck-early-music-festival-2020-review-la-pellegrina/

(Photo: Birgit Gufler) In 1589, the Medici, Grand Duke Ferdinando married Christine of Lorraine in Florence in a lavish celebration, which was described as the most magnificent entertainment ever seen in the city. It was an event of rich splendor, aimed at projecting the power of the Medici and of Florence itself. At its center was the comedy, “La Pellegrina,” {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2020 Review: L’Empio Punito

https://operawire.com/innsbruck-early-music-festival-2020-review-lempio-punito/

(Photo: Birgit Gufler) Each year Innsbruck’s Festival of Early Music presents Oper:Jung, a work performed by younger singers, which gives them the chance to essay substantial roles in front of the festival audience. This year the choice of opera was Alessandro Melani’s “L’Empio Punito,” to a libretto by Acciaiuoli and Appoloni. Premiered in Rome in 1669, it has the distinction {…}

Links

Social

Contact

Opera is thriving. And OperaWire came about as a desire to take in as much of it and allow the passionate fan base access to everything this wondrous art form has to offer on a daily basis.

© Copyright 2024 OperaWire
Site by Lenny's Studio