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British opera singer
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2024-02-05 09:17:00
Low comedy & sophisticated satire: New Sussex Opera revives John Frederick Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley
We often forget that 18th century audiences enjoyed a good laugh as much as their modern day counterparts, live wasn't just opera seria and uplifting oratorio. One of the comic masterpieces of the period, John Frederick Lampe's delightfully satirical opera, The Dragon of Wantley, has remained puzzlingly neglected, with performances only happening once in a while. Perhaps the fact that there is no definitive score does not help. Written in the 1730s by a musician who played the bassoon in Handel's orchestra, it proved popular and almost certainly performers of the time took a creative view of it. This is reflected in the two surviving scores, one without recitatives and the other heavily cut (presumably a shorter touring version). However, in 2022, Resonus Classics issued a terrific new recording of the opera [see my review].The good news is that New Sussex Opera is presenting a new production of The Dragon of Wantley which […]
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 Glaucus, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-03 03:52:56
The BEMF Chamber Orchestra and a small vocal ensemble shared an essentially faultless performance of Jonathan Lampe’s comic opera The Dragon Of Wantley at Jordan Hall last Sunday. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2022-08-02 06:46:00
Finely poetic: Ernest Chausson's early Piano Trio alongside works by his contemporary, Eugene Ysaÿe
[…] Handel's pasticcio, Caio Fabbricio - record reviewMore than just sisterhood: Mark Adamo's Little Women finally gets its UK premiere in Ella Marchment's imaginative production at Opera Holland Park - opera reviewFrom Bayreuth to Grimeborn: having assisted at Bayreuth Festival's new Ring Cycle, Peter Selwyn moves on to conduct the concluding parts of the Grimeborn Festival's ambitious Ring Cycle - interviewOperatic rarities in a striking double bill: Delius' Margot la Rouge and Puccini's Le Villi at Opera Holland Park - opera reviewThe Dragon of Wantley: a fine Handelian cast have terrific fun with Lampe's parody of opera seria - CD reviewHome
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