(Photo: Francesco Gasparini’s “L’Avare” (“The Miser”) is an intermezzo inspired by French playwright Molière’s five-act comedy in prose also titled “L’Avare.” It includes three singers and one mime accompanied by a small ensemble that tells the story of a pathological miser (Old Pancrazio) turned widower with severe paranoia about his box of gold that he buried in his garden being {…}
(Photo Credit: Francois Berthier) The Krakow Festival Office has announced that Vincent Dumestre will continue as Artistic Director of the Misteria Paschalia Festival. The French-born Dumestre has a long history with the festival, having first performed in Kraków in 2007 and appeared in nearly every edition since. In 2017, he became the festival’s Director-in-Residence, a role focused on highlighting Francophone {…}
(Photo: Mirco Magliocca) The Versailles Royal Opera successfully staged one of the most curious titles of the eighteenth century: Baldassare Galuppi and Piero Chiari’s “L’uomo Femina.” Galuppi, once a popular Venetian composer—especially known for what is now recognized as opera buffa—has largely fallen into obscurity. Today, his name resonates only among the most hardcore early music enthusiasts—the same audiences likely {…}