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2022-04-12 07:08:30
Historical stagecraft & modern sensibilities: a powerful Tamerlano from Cambridge Handel Opera Company
[…] Freud might have understood it. Instead, Dionysios Kyropoulos combined 18th century stagecraft with modern sensibility to create a very active drama that was wonderfully engrossing, with some damned fine singing and playing. In the afternoon, we had a fascinating study session on the opera. Prof David Kimbell sketched in some of the background to the opera, the libretto and Handel's relationships, whilst Prof Reinhard Strohm gave superb insight into the changing way Tamerlano (Tamburlaine, Timur Leng) and Bajazet were perceived, both as historical characters and as avatars for more modern figures like King William III and King Louis XIV. In fact, continuing popularity of Nicholas Rowe's play Tamburlaine made you wonder about the choice of the subject for Handel's opera, even though his treatment of the characters is very different. Handel's extensive revisions to the opera before the first performance led to cuts and deletions, and we heard three excised […]
2019-08-26 02:29:27
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I was flabbergasted — yes, flabbergasted — when Margaret Leng Tan told me she’s never headlined a show before. After all, The
2018-07-23 07:00:00
Broadway WorldAfter announcing a line up of DJ favourites including Camelphat, MK, Darius Syrossian and My Nu Leng last month, the bi-annual boutique woodland festival ...
2018-05-10 10:00:22
On Thursday, April 26, 2018 at Merkin Hall, Margaret Leng Tan performed a program entitled “Cage, Crumb, and Beyond—Celebrating the Avant-Garde..
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