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Ravenna Festival Announces 2025 Season

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The Ravenna Festival has announced its 2025 season. Here are the vocal performances for the season. Summer Season  Riccardo Muti conducts selections from Verdi’s Nabucco, Macbeth, and I “I Lombardi alla prima crociata.” Davide Cavalli is the soloist. Performance Dates: June 1 & 2, 2025 The Tallis Scholars under Peter Phillips perform Palestrina and Arvo Pärt. Performance Date: June 1, {…}
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Ravenna 2024 Review: Il Ritorno Di Ulisse In Patria

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(Photo: Zani-Casadio) In his program notes, the director, Pier Luigi Pizzi, writing about “Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria,” stated that “the opera speaks for itself,” adding, “we must not induce or force its interpretation… It is up to the audience to confront it, to think about it, and to decide for themselves whether or not it is worthwhile.” Even {…}
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Silvia Frigato & Heather Newhouse Lead the 2024 Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella

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(Photo credit: Nikolai Schukoff) The Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella has announced its line up for the 2024 season. This article only features vocal works. Opening the festival, artistic director Andrea De Carlo leads the Ensemble Mare Nostrum in Stradella’s oratorio “San Giovanni Battista.” Soloist are sopranos Silvia Frigato and Dorota Szczepańska, countertenor Danilo Pastore, tenor Roberto Manuel Zangari, and bass {…}
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Ravenna 2024 Review: L’Incoronazione di Poppea

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(Photo: Studio B12 di Gianpaolo Guarneri) The duet “Pur ti miro, pur ti godo,” which brought Teatro Aligheri’s presentation of “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” to its conclusion, was rightly met with enthusiastic applause from the audience. The sensitivity, emotional depth and detail that countertenor Federico Fiorio and soprano Roberta Mameli were able to bring to their singing was breathtaking. Their voices {…}
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Teatro La Fenice 2021-22 Review: Apollo et Hyacinthus

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(Photo: Michele Crosera) On May 13th 1767, the students of the Salzburg University Gymnasium premiered the three-act intermezzo “Apollo et Hyacinthus.” The significance of the event was that it was the first performance of an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was 11 years old at the time. Although its music certainly has much to commend it, dramatically it {…}
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Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella Unveils 2022 Edition

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The Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella has unveiled its 2022 edition. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. The first showcase of the season will be a performance of Stradella’s final opera “Moro per Amore.” The work will star Silvia Frigato, Danilo Pastore, Margarita Slepakova, Eleonora Filipponi, Matteo Straffi, Federico Fiorio, and Masashi Tomosugi. {…}
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Palazzo Altemps Rome 2021 Review: Moro Per Amore

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(Photo: Stradella Y-Project) Situated about a two minute walk from Rome’s Piazza Navona is the Palazzo Altemps, a building originally designed by Melozzo da Forlì for Girolamo Riario, Lord of Imola in the fifteenth century. Over the years it was enlarged and developed into what is now a magnificent Renaissance residence. The Riario family’s tenure of the building was a {…}

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