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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2023 Review: L’Olimpiade

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(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 {…}
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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2021 Review: Boris Goudenow

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(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 {…}
Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Soprano Martina Licari on Her Forthcoming Role Debut as Ismene at Vicenza In Lirica & How COVID Disrupted her Early Success

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(Photo: Antonio Curti) The winner of the 2021 Tulio Serafin Opera Singing Competition, Martina Licari, is due to make her role debut as Ismene in two performances of Mozart’s “Mitridate, re di Ponto” at this season’s Vicenza in Lirica, starting 28th August, running until 12th September. Having graduated from the conservatory in Palermo in 2018, the young soprano appeared to {…}
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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2020 Review: L’Empio Punito

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(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 {…}
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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2020 Review: Leonora

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(Photo: Brigitte Duftner) Italian composer Ferdinando Paër (1771 – 1839) is significant in the history of opera for his work during the first decade of the 19th century in developing opera semi-seria by integrating attributes of serious and comic opera. And although no longer well-known, his operas do receive the occasional performance. This year, however, there were a couple of {…}
Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Sara-Maria Saalmann on Her Love of Singing & Managing a Successful Career in the Competitive World Of Opera

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(Photo: Frank Wartenberg) Last December OperaWire reviewed an impressive production of Vivaldi’s “La Fida Ninfa” at the repertory theatre in Regensburg. In the central role of Morastro was the young German-Spanish soprano Sara-Maria Saalmann, whose performance was dramatically intense, but beautifully sung. Working for a repertory company often means a heavy and varied schedule, yet Saalmann is still keen to {…}
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Q & A: Arianna Vendittelli On The Importance & Challenges Of Singing ‘Ermione,’ Interpretation & Career Development

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Arianna Vendittelli’s career is one that most singers would dream of. She has an established reputation in the Mozart, Rossini and baroque repertoire, singing at the highest level in such roles as roles such as Fiordiligi, Zerlina, Cleopatra, Serse, Eurydice and many more. Moreover, she has been guided by such venerated artists as Ottavio Dantone, Riccardo Muti and Alessandro De {…}
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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2019 Review: Ottone

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(Photo:Rupert Larl) Each year Innsbruck’s Early Music Festival stages a Barockoper:Jung production in the inner courtyard of the theological faculty in the city’s university, devoted to showcasing the talents of younger singers, including selected finalists from the previous year’s Cesti competition. This year’s presentation was Handel’s 1719 opera, “Ottone.” The libretto, by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino and adapted by Nicola Francesco {…}
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Q & A: Alessandro De Marchi on the Innsbruck Festival For Early Music

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Each summer, Innsbruck hosts its Festival for Early Music. Established in 1976, it specializes in presenting historically informed performances of early music, including operas, many of which have not been heard for hundreds of years. Currently it is under the artistic direction of the early music specialist, Alessandro De Marchi, who has been in the post since 2010. Over the {…}

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