Performances by Le Concert d’Astrée (Virgin), Theatre of the Ayre (Wigmore Hall Live), and English Baroque Soloists (SDG). [Read more after the jump.]
Displaying all posts tagged with opera
Christian Curnyn on Handel’s Partenope
March 7th, 2011
A brief explanation of the opera’s title character. [Read more after the jump.]
Video: Voice Lesson with René Jacobs
March 7th, 2011
An excerpt from a 1987 French documentary. [Watch after the jump.]
Concert Review Links: Orlando Consort, Handel & Haydn Society, Vivaldi Project, and New London Consort
March 2nd, 2011
Medieval “Food, Wine, and Song” (New York City), Handel’s Israel in Egypt (Boston), Venetian Baroque (Washington, DC), and Purcell’s Fairy Queen (London). [More after the jump.]
Concert Review Links: La Venexiana, New London Consort, and Grabriele Cassone
February 16th, 2011
Monteverdi madrigals (London), Purcell’s “Fairy Queen” (London), and trumpet solos with orchestra (San Francisco). [Read more after the jump.]
Anthony Tommasini visits the Handel House Museum
February 16th, 2011
In London for the premiere of the Turnage opera “Anna Nicole,” a New York Times music critic pays a visit to Handel’s home. [Read more after the jump.]
Concert Review Links: Private Musicke, Opera Lafayette, and American Opera Theater
February 9th, 2011
17th-century Italian madrigals in London, Gretry’s “Le Magnifique” in Washington, D.C., and Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” in Baltimore. [Read more after the jump.]
Handel Xerxes in New Zealand
February 1st, 2011
The New Zealand Opera will present the first fully-staged production of a Handel opera on period instruments in New Zealand. [More after the jump.]
Voices from the 19th Century: Beethoven makes an Announcement
January 31st, 2011
The Artaria publishing firm is responsible for sales of “Fidelio” arrangements. [Read more after the jump.]
Concert Review Links: Irish Baroque Orchestra and Le Concert d’Astrée
January 21st, 2011
J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, and Rameau in Dublin (Huggett), and Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” at Opéra Garnier in Paris (Haïm). [Read more after the jump.]
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