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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. {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: French Contralto Delphine Galou On Her Love Of Singing Baroque

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(Photo:  Giulia Papetti) Last summer, the Vivaldi Edition, devoted to recording the entire Foà and Giordano Collection of nearly 450 Vivaldi manuscripts, released two recordings. Both discs, one of sacred music and the other of secular music, are for the contralto voice. The soloist on both discs is Delphine Galou, the French baroque specialist whose distinctive voice has drawn high {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2019 Review: La Dori

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(Photo: Innsbrucker Festwochen/Rupert Larl) To mark the 350th anniversary of the death of the Italian composer, Antonio Cesti, the Innsbruck Early Music Festival decided to mount a production of his opera “La Dori, overo Lo schiavo reggio,” written for Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Further Austria, and premiered at the city’s court theatre in 1657. Cesti had a close relationship with {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti 2019 Review: Serse

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Serse’s short aria, “Ombra mai fu,” in which he passionately addresses a plane tree, may be the most famous aria from Handel’s opera “Serse,” but is it the most significant moment in the work? Certainly, an argument could be made for it being the case, as it establishes from the outset Seres’s strong, but superficial emotional response to the world {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Lombardia 2018-19 Review: Rinaldo

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Brescia shares its opera season with a number of other cities in Italy’s Lombardia region, courtesy of the touring company, Opera Lombardia, and if the quality of its recent production of Handel’s “Rinaldo” is representative, then it certainly does not suffer from the arrangement. Boasting a quality young cast, including the highly respected French contralto, Delphine Galou, and two singers {…}