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 {…}
(Photo: Birgit Gufler) In 1589, the Medici, Grand Duke Ferdinando married Christine of Lorraine in Florence in a lavish celebration, which was described as the most magnificent entertainment ever seen in the city. It was an event of rich splendor, aimed at projecting the power of the Medici and of Florence itself. At its center was the comedy, “La Pellegrina,” {…}
(Photo: Innsbrucker Festwochen/Veronika Lercher) Franco Fagioli’s recital entitled “Cara Sposa” supported by the Il Pomo D’Oro ensemble at this summer’s Early Music Festival in Innsbruck was originally scheduled to run for over two hours. The COVID pandemic, however, put pay to that idea. Changes were necessary. With only half the seats in the auditorium available owing to social distancing rules, {…}
(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 {…}
(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 {…}
The final opera of this year’s Innsbruck’s Festival for Early Music was “La Semele, o sia la richiesta fatale,” written in 1726 by the relatively unknown German composer, Johann Adolf Hasse, to a libretto by Francesco Ricciardi. Technically this is not an opera as such, but a serenata, although it could certainly fall within its ambit. Deriving from the Classical and {…}
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, {…}
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 {…}
