HamburgMusik 2024-25 Review: Mozart’s ‘Great Mass in C Minor’

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In the grand setting of the 2025 Amadeus, Amadeus Festival in Hamburg, Jordi Savall delivered a performance of Mozart’s “Great Mass in C Minor,” (K.427) that stood as a testament to the power of unfinished works. Collaborating with his longtime assistant and keyboardist Luca Guglielmi, Savall brought one of Mozart’s most intricate and incomplete masterpieces to life, blending historical {…}

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Rai 5 to Present Vicenza in Lirica’s Mozart Mass

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Rai 5 is set to present the Festival “Vicenza in Lirica’s” Mozart’s Messa in do minore. The concert, recorded on Sept. 2, 2022, at the Teatro Olimpico, showcased the new performing version under maestro Luca Guglielmi. The concert features sopranos Nina Solodovnikova and Paola Leoci, tenor Giuseppe Di Giacinto, and bass Giacomo Nanni. In a statement, Artistic Director Andrea Castello said, {…}

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Festival Vicenza in Lirica Announces 2022 Season

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The Festival Vicenza in Lirica has announced its 2022 season, which will be themed “la Musica unisce.” The season opens with “Ballo delle ingrate – Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda” with Gennaro Di Filippo, Antonia Salzano, Isabella De Massis, Marta Pacifci, Roberto Manuel Zagari, Jesus Hernandez, and Marta Pacifci. Performance Date: June 17, 2022 The Concerto lirico Benefco will include {…}

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Lise Davidsen, Sondra Radvanovsky, Saioa Hernández & Xabier Anduaga Lead Gran Teatre del Liceu’s 2022-23 Season

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The Gran Teatre del Liceu has announced its 2022-23 season featuring two world premieres and classic works with international stars. Here is a look at the new season. Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” will star Carlos Chausson, Alessandro Corbelli, Andrzej Filonczyk, Carles Pachón, Xabier Anduaga, Iván Ayón-Rivas, Sara Blanch, and Serena Sáenz. Josep Pons conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 21-Oct. 9, 2022 “La {…}

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CD Review: Händel’s ‘Aci, Galatea e Polifemo’

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(Photo: Gianpaolo Parodi) In 1708 Händel wrote “Aci, Galatea and Polifemo,” a serenata for three voices, as part of the celebrations to mark the marriage of Beatrice Tocco di Montemiletto and Duke D’Alvito Tolomeo III. Its narrative, taken from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” relates how the love between the shepherd Aci and the nymph Galatea enrages the cyclops Polifemo, who in a {…}

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Javier Camarena, Marina Rebeka & Michael Spyres Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences are in for a treat with numerous new releases of world premieres, full operas, solo albums, and classic productions. Here is a look at this week’s new releases. Il Pirata Prima Classic releases Bellini’s rarely performed work with Javier Camarena, Marina Rebeka, and Franco Vassallo performing the leading roles. The album was recorded at Bellini’s homeland, Catania, {…}

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Marina Rebeka, Michael Fabiano, Sonya Yoncheva, Deborah Nansteel, Aleksandra Kurzak Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

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There’s no doubt that it hasn’t been an easy week in the opera world. With COVID-19 continuing to spread across the world at alarming rates, companies across Europe have entered a second lockdown, ending what many hoped would be a continuation of performances throughout the 2020-21 season. But it has not quite worked out that way. As such, online broadcasts {…}

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OperaStreaming to Broadcast Rare Version of Handel’s ‘Aci, Galatea e Polifemo’

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On November 15, OperaStreaming will broadcast Handel’s “Aci, Galatea e Polifemo” live from the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza. This production, directed by Gianmaria Aliverta, is the first staging in modern times of the version written for the famous castrato Senesino. Luca Guglielmi will conduct the Baroque ensemble La Lira di Orfeo. The cast of young artists includes Raffaele Pe as {…}

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Teatro Municipale di Piacenza to Stream ‘Aci, Galatea e Polifemo’

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The Teatro Municipale di Piacenza will continue to perform opera via streaming. The company announced that its new production of Handel’s “Aci, Galatea e Polifemo,” which was set to debut on Oct. 31, 2020, will be showcased on Opera Streaming, the first regional streaming service in Italy. The platform can be accessed on YouTube. The production will also be recorded {…}

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HamburgMusik 2024-25 Review: Mozart’s ‘Great Mass in C Minor’

Rai 5 to Present Vicenza in Lirica’s Mozart Mass

Festival Vicenza in Lirica Announces 2022 Season

Lise Davidsen, Sondra Radvanovsky, Saioa Hernández & Xabier Anduaga Lead Gran Teatre del Liceu’s 2022-23 Season

CD Review: Händel’s ‘Aci, Galatea e Polifemo’

Javier Camarena, Marina Rebeka & Michael Spyres Lead New CD/DVD Releases

Marina Rebeka, Michael Fabiano, Sonya Yoncheva, Deborah Nansteel, Aleksandra Kurzak Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

OperaStreaming to Broadcast Rare Version of Handel’s ‘Aci, Galatea e Polifemo’

Teatro Municipale di Piacenza to Stream ‘Aci, Galatea e Polifemo’