Silvia Frigato & Heather Newhouse Lead the 2024 Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella

(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 {…}

Palazzo Altemps Rome 2021 Review: Moro Per Amore

(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 {…}