Innsbruck Festival of Early Music Announces 47th Season Lineup

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The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has announced the program for its 47th season. Running from July 11 to August 29 and featuring 48 events across 14 venues, this season will mark the last under Artistic Director Alessandro de Marchi after 14 years with the festival. Among the highlights are three works by Antonio Vivaldi: Stefano Vizioli directs “Olimpiade,” with a {…}

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Innsbruck Festival of Early Music Announces New Artistic Direction

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The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music announced its plans for a new artistic direction beginning in Sept. 2023. The focus is a structural reformatting to increase the longevity and resilience of the festival. First, the festival plans to implement a three to five-year rotation for its management team. Currently heading the projects are Ottavio Dantone who will act as Musical {…}

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Bejun Mehta, Sophie Rennert, Francesca Ascioti & Giuseppina Bridelli Headline Innsbruck Festival of Early Music’s 2022 Season

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(Credit: Innsbruck Festival of Early Music official website) The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has announced its 2022 season, featuring three operas and a number of concerts. For the purpose of this article we will focus on the vocal works. Here is a full slate. Operas Carl Heinrich Graun’s opera “Silla” spotlights Bejun Mehta, Eleonora Bellocci, Valer Sabadus, Roberta Invernizzi, {…}

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Jakub Józef Orlinski, Lea Desandre, Davide Luciano Headline the 2021 Innsbruck Festival of Early Music

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The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has announced its 2021 season, which includes over 50 events between July 13 through August 29, 2021. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal and operatic performances. Operas It all starts with Pasquini’s “Idalma.” The showcase will star Arianna Vendittelli, Anita Rosati, Margherita Maria Sala, Rupert Charlesworth, Juan {…}

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Innsbruck Festival of Early Music Moves Forward With 2020 Edition

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(Credit: Rupert Larl) The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has confirmed that it will move forward with its 2020 edition featuring the three opera productions it had originally scheduled, albeit in “adapted form.” “Leonora” will be showcased in a concert version at the Tiroler Landestheater while “La Pellegrina” will be showcased in a concertante performance at the Haus der Musik {…}

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Christophe Dumaux, Delphine Galou, Franco Fagioli Among Stars of Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 2020

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The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has announced its 2020 season, which features a wide range of early music in concert and opera. For the purposes of this article, we will focus solely on opera and vocal related program. The season opens with Ferdinando Paër’s “Leonora,” which will be directed by Mariame Clément with musical direction by Alessandro de Marchi. {…}

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Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 2019 Season To Feature 3 New Operas

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The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has announced its 2019 season, which will be its 43rd edition. The season features three rarely performed operas dating between 1657 through 1732. The season kicks off with Broschi’s “Merope,” which will be led by conductor Alessandro De Marchi. The work had its world premiered in Turin in 1732. Performance Dates: August 7, 9, {…}

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Documenting the Evolution of an Early Music Orchestra & the Innsbruck Festival

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The story of how Accademia Bizantina (AB) began seems quite simple. But like all good stories, there is more to it than meets the eye. In 1983 three classmates of the Ravenna Conservatory met for coffee. This initial meeting included Angelo Nicastro, a violist and now director of the Ravenna Festival; Romano Valentini, a pianist, organist, and harpsichordist, as well {…}

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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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Innsbruck Festival of Early Music Announces 47th Season Lineup

Innsbruck Festival of Early Music Announces New Artistic Direction

Bejun Mehta, Sophie Rennert, Francesca Ascioti & Giuseppina Bridelli Headline Innsbruck Festival of Early Music’s 2022 Season

Jakub Józef Orlinski, Lea Desandre, Davide Luciano Headline the 2021 Innsbruck Festival of Early Music

Innsbruck Festival of Early Music Moves Forward With 2020 Edition

Christophe Dumaux, Delphine Galou, Franco Fagioli Among Stars of Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 2020

Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 2019 Season To Feature 3 New Operas

Documenting the Evolution of an Early Music Orchestra & the Innsbruck Festival

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2023 Review: Juditha Triumphans