The Potsdam-Sanssouci Music Festival is set to present Scarlatti’s “I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura” starting on June 12, 2022. The opera, which will also be presented on June 14016 at the Sclosstheater in the Neues Palais, will be directed by filmmaker Emmanuel Mouret in his operatic debut. The showcase will star Rupert Charlesorth as Celidoro, a man who “stumbles {…}
(Credits: © Gregor Hohenberg / Sony Classical / Jiyang Chen / Chris Singer / Paul Schirnhofer/DG / Opus 3 Artists official website) Philharmonie Essen has announced its 2021-22 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on the vocal works only. Christine Goerke and Klaus Florian Vogt perform works by Richard Wagner. Andris Nelsons conducts the Bayreuther Festspielorchester. {…}
(Credits: © Julian Laidig / © Capucine de Chocqueuse / Justin Hyer / Giulia Papetti) The Festival international d’Opéra Baroque & Romantique Beaune has announced its 2021 program, consisting of seven operas and oratorios, and four recitals. The festival will take place from July 9 until July 31, 2021. Operas & Oratorios Mozart‘s rarely performed operatic masterwork “Lucio Silla” will {…}
(Credits: RibaltaLuce Studio / © Christine Schneider / Michal Novak) The Festival of baroque and sacred music in Froville, France has announced its 2021 edition. The festival will take place from May 28 until July 6, 2021. For the purposes of this article, we will focus only on vocal performances. Here is the look. Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux will perform works {…}
(Photo:Richard Boll) The Greek myth of Arianna (Ariadne in English) is a story rich in strong and contrasting emotions, for she is a woman who experiences love in extremis, and pays the price of loving the wrong man, Theseus, with whom she flees her home and betrays her family, only to be abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. {…}
(Credit: Monika Ritterhaus) In its second annual Baroque festival, the Staatsoper Berlin spotlighted the work of two contemporaries, Alessandro Scarlatti and Henry Purcell, and the musical cultures of the Italian and English Baroque. Over 10 days and 25 musical performances, the program covered not only opera but a wide array of other material, from a Baroque harp recital to Jacobean {…}
The Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of Arts is set to open its 2019-20 Early Music series with a performance by Vox Luminis on Oct. 19, 2019. The showcase, entitled “Stabat Mater,” will take place at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in New York City. The event will feature music by Scarlatti, Della Ciaia, Monteverdi, Lotti, and {…}
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will present a new production of Scarlatti’s rare “La Caduta de’ Decemviri.” This is estimated to be the first modern performance of the 1697 opera. The opera explores the story of Virginia, the hero of the Roman Republicanism as she struggles during the rule of the 10 men. The work has not been recorded to {…}
At the turn of the 18th century, Naples was an important centre for innovation and performance in the opera world. In 1706, Michelangelo Faggioli premiered his opera “La Cilla,” the first of a new form of comedy opera, sung in the Neapolitan dialect, based around a light-hearted plot, focused upon domestic and family affairs, which reflected the bourgeoise values of {…}