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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-22 15:38:38
The Boston Lyric Opera’s charming production of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges’s only surviving opera, The Anonymous Lover (1780), ran at the Huntington Theater last weekend. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] of Mary, Queen of Scots represents a major step forward towards sustainability while offering an experimental challenge for art and trades alike, that’s why as little material as possible has been used in the production. The idea of a climate-neutral production, supported, may I add, by Fonds Zero of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, was, in fact, inspired by operas produced by Icelandic Opera.’ A strong and dutiful cast was gallantly led by Chicago-born soprano, Nicole Chevalier, whose first appearance on stage came by a trapdoor dressed as Backpacker with her four ‘ladies-in-waiting’ identically dressed. Get the picture? Harbouring a dramatically, rich-sounding authoritative voice with a stage presence to match, Chevalier, who made her début at the Salzburg Festival in 2019, was a member of Komische Oper Berlin from 2012 to 2017 where I witnessed her in action for the first time delivering a resolute and driving performance of Cunegonde in Bernstein’s […]
2024-01-19 03:06:00
The Chevalier: New York Premiere
The Chevalier: The Life & Music of Joseph Bologne brings together two concepts that are hot today: music theater (or, theater with music), and recognition of figures in classical music other than white European males (Bologne is two out of three, if you count his place of birth). The subject is Joseph Bologne, also known […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
). I’m happy, once again, to be presenting here at the Boston Musical Intelligencer my personal selection of some of the most notable and engaging of the lot. Baroque era: I was delighted to get to know John Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley (1737), in a highly accomplished and spirited recording. The work feels a bit like a successor to The Beggar’s Opera, not least in its pointed satire of social norms. (The work was just performed by the Boston Early Music Festival, though with a different cast and orchestra; the Boston Globe called the result “spellbinding.” Virtual tickets to watch the videorecording are available through December 23, 2023.) A recording of a serious English opera of the period, Matthew Locke’s Psyche, was musically marvelous but utterly undone for me by the mispronunciations of the libretto by the all-Francophone cast. No such problems occurred with Jean-Marie Leclair’s Scylla et […]
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