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Handel’s Alcina - a ‘first’ for Glyndebourne - joins other great Handel gems in the company’s repertoire such as Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo and Theodora
[…] the title role. Tony saw a cast that included Samantha Hankey as Ruggiero, see Robert's review of the production with Svetlina Stoyanova as Ruggiero.Handel loosely based the libretto for Alcina on Riccardo Broschi’s opera, L’isola d’Alcina, set to a libretto by Antonio Fanzaglia. The original source of the story, however, comes from Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem, Orlando furioso, the source, too, for such other Handel delights as Orlando and Ariodante. The work received its first performance at the Teatro Capranica, Rome, in 1728, a theatre originally constructed in 1679 by the Capranica family and housed in the early Renaissance Palazzo Capranica. It was, incidentally, the second public theatre to open in the Eternal City but, sadly, ceased operating as a full-scale theatre and opera-house in 1881. In 1922 was converted into a cinema. Following the closure of the cinema in 2000, the theatre now functions as a conference and performance venue. Handel: Alcina - Soraya […]
2018-08-13 13:20:28
Pporpora, Salieri 2018
[…] Caffarelli, also a castrato, second only to Farinelli; he became one of Handel’s favorite singers. In 1723-24 Porpora traveled to Vienna and Munich but received no appointments. He returned to Italy and settled in Venice. An intense rivalry developed between him and Leonardo Vinci, Porpora’s classmate in Naples. In 1730 Porpora and Vinci both produced operas which ran simultaneously in two leading Roman opera houses, one in Teatro della Dame, another – in Teatro Capranica. In 1730 Vinci died at age 40, and for a while Poprora’s competitive impulse focused on another successful opera composer, Johann Adolph Hasse. In 1733 Porpora received an invitation from a group of Londoners who were setting up an opera company, Opera of the Nobility, to rival Handel’s Royal Academy of Music. During his three years in London Porpora composed five operas. The first, Arianna in Naxo, turned out to be the most successful […]
2016-05-18 02:52:21
[…] Tyrant of Padua”) for the lyric stage. Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French novelist & playwright Saverio Mercadante tried to make a palatable meal out of Hugo’s grisly melodrama with Il Giuramento (“The Oath”) in 1837, while Carlos Gomes lost his way with Fosca from 1873 (revised 1878). Technically speaking, Fosca was not “directly” derived from Hugo’s work but from an equally scorching 1869 novel Le Feste delle Marie (“The Feast of the Marias”) by Luigi Capranica, a contemporary Roman author. It is well to point out that, on closer examination, the actions of both Hugo’s drama and Capranica’s novel were so strikingly similar (consisting of mistaken identities, thinly-veiled disguises, a feigned death by sleeping potion, spies, secret lovers, and the iconic Venetian locale) one might be tempted to accuse Capranica of appropriating the plot to suit his own purpose. Writing in the April 1993 issue of the magazine Opera, British-born […]
2014-02-09 17:58:22
Scentual Sunday
[…] operas, and of Cardinal Ottoboni, who made him his maestro di cappella, and procured him a similar post at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 1703. After visiting Venice and Urbino in 1707, Scarlatti took up his duties in Naples again in 1708, and remained there until 1717. By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas (Telemaco, 1718; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719; La Griselda, 1721), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721. His last work on a large scale appears to have been the unfinished serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano in 1723. He died in Naples […]
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