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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2023 Review: Juditha Triumphans

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(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 {…}

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Teatro la Fenice Announces August, September & October Schedule

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The Teatro la Fenice has announced programming for August, September, and October following the COVID-19 regulations. The new program will open on August 22 and run through October. On August 22, the theater will open with Tito Ceccherini leading the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice performing Mozart’s Symphony No. 20and Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella.” The concert will also include music by Pergolesi {…}

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Teatro La Fenice 2019-20 Review: Ottone in Villa

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(Photo: Michele Crosera) Four months after La Fenice closed its doors, opera has once again returned to its stage, albeit not necessarily in a form that one normally associates with a traditional opera house. The regulations aimed at containing the spread of COVID 19 mean that Italian theatres, cinemas, and other public performance spaces must comply with stringent restrictions, which {…}

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Teatro la Fenice to Perform Vivaldi’s ‘Ottone in Villa’

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Opera will return to the Teatro la Fenice on July 10 with a new production of Vivaldi’s “Ottone in Villa.” The new production will be conducted by Diego Fasolis and star Giulia Semenzato, Sonia Prina, Lucia Cirillo, Valentino Buzza, and Michela Antenucci. Giovanni Di Cicco will direct the production with set designs by Massimo Checchetto, costumes by Carlos Tieppo, and {…}

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Teatro La Fenice 2019-20 Review: A Hand Of Bridge/Bluebeard’s Castle

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(Credit: Michele Crosera) The Teatro La Fenice’s pairing of Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” and Samuel Barber’s “A Hand of Bridge” certainly made for an interesting and unusual double bill, although the relationship between the works was not immediately evident. This was recognized by the director Fabio Ceresa who explored possible connections, but finding none, opted to stage them as two distinct, {…}

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Wexford Festival Opera 2019 Review: Dorilla In Tempe

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(Photo: Clive Barda) There is certainly something of a Vivaldi revival going on in the opera world at the moment. In less than seven days, I managed to catch Irish National Opera’s splendid presentation of “Griselda,” the first ever production of a Vivaldi opera in Ireland, followed by Wexford Festival Opera’s production of “Dorilla in Tempe.” They employed two very {…}

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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2019-20 Review: Fernand Cortez

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(Photo: Michele Monasta) In 1808 France turned on its ally, Spain, who up to this point had been jointly engaged in a war against Portugal. Aware of the power of propaganda, its Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, expressed a wish for an opera on the subject of Cortez’s conquest of Mexico. The parallels between the events were fairly clear. France was a {…}

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Teatro Malibran 2018 Review – Orlando Furioso: Revival of Vivaldi Success Is Rousing Success With Top-End Cast

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As part of its 2017 programme, the Festival della Valle D’Itria presented a staging of Vivaldi’s opera “Orlando Furioso.” Embracing the performance traditions of the baroque period and resisting the temptation to make the work “relevant,” its director, Fabio Ceresa and his production team produced a splendid reading of the work, full of color, spectacle, and beauty. The musical direction, {…}

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Teatro la Fenice 2017-18 Review – Zenobia: Embracing the Past & Future To Create Compelling Performance in the Present

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More than 300 years ago, in 1694, the small Venetian theatre of Teatro Grimani di SS Giovanni e Paolo presented Albinoni’s first opera, “Zenobia, Regina de’ Palmireni,” as part of the carnival season. It has now returned to Venice, this time at the Teatro Malibran, for only its second production in the modern era (The first being in Damascus in {…}