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Italian composer, musicologist and music theorist
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William Christie & Les Arts Florissants celebrate New Year's Eve at Wigmore Hall in fine style with Hugh Cutting & Carlo Vistoli
Antonio CaldaraMonteverdi, Steffani, Fontana, Caldara, Vivaldi, Bononcini, Handel; Hugh Cutting, Carlo Vistoli, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie; Wigmore HallReviewed 31 December 2023One of those evenings where the performers sheer delight in the music carried you away; Les Arts Flo in a delightful sequence of Italian Baroque duets and solo cantatasThe Wigmore Hall ended the year in fine style with a concert of 17th and 18th century Italian duets from Les Arts Florissants. William Christie directed from harpsichord and organ with Emmanuel Resche-Caserta and Augusta McKay Lodge, violins, and Cyril Poulet, cello, with countertenors Hugh Cutting and Carlo Vistoli. The programme included duets by Monteverdi, Agostino Steffani, Giovanni Bononcini, Handel and Vivaldi, along with solo cantatas by Antonio Caldara and Vivaldi, and instrumental music by Giovanni Battista Fontana, Vivaldi and Caldara.We began with one of Monteverdi's Scherzi Musicali, the duet Damigella tutta bella published in 1607, a delightfully perky and distinctly skittish dance. Then came the duet Aita […]
2021-07-24 04:53:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 24, 2021
[…] & Joseph Calleja in ConcertWe're excited to continue to bring audiences this special season of Great Performances at the Met with concerts from Met Opera stars around the world. “Great Performances at the Met: Diana Damrau & Joseph Calleja in Concert” premieres beginning Friday, August 6 on PBS (check local listings).The soprano-tenor duo take the stage to sing works by Verdi, Bizet, Rossini and more performing from the Cappella Palatina of the Royal Palace of Caserta. Hosted by soprano Angel Blue, the pair are accompanied by Vincenzo Scalera on piano. The New York metro area premiere of the concert is Sunday, August 8 at 12:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN.Also coming up, “Great Performances: Vienna Summer Night 2021” premieres Friday, August 27 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/gperf, and the PBS Video app. Conducted by Daniel Harding at Austria’s Schönbrunn Palace, the Vienna Philharmonic’s annual summer night concert features […]
2020-11-02 09:54:18
A Life On-Line: Lawrence Brownlee & friends in Philadelphia, Diana Damrau & Joseph Calleja in Caserta, Goldberg Variations in Brecon
[…] and beauty of line. A group of spirituals followed, then a group of lighter numbers including songs by Victor Herbert, George Gershwin, Irvin Berlin and Isham Jones' It had to be you. [Opera Philadelhia] The latest in the Met Stars Live was an altogether grander affair. Soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Joseph Calleja were accompanied by pianist Roberto Moreschi in a performance which came live from the Cappella Palatina of the Royal Palace of Caserta near Naples. A very suitable setting for a scene from Act One of Puccini's Tosca, though hearing the opera with just piano accompaniment made you realise quite how much weight is carried by Puccini's orchestration. Damrau is nowhere near a spinto soprano and I doubt whether Tosca is a role that she would ever sing at the Met, but here she made a delightful, lighter-style Tosca interacting well with Calleja's passionate Cavaradossi. Of course, […]
2020-10-26 12:00:00
Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja sing live from Caserta in Italy as part of Met Stars Live in Concert, experienced by Maria Nockin
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