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2019-08-20 16:36:00
Salzburg Festival (5) - Soloists/Mozarteum/Pichon - Mozart, Paisiello, Salieri, and Martín y Soler, 18 August 2019
[…] Mozart: Recitative and aria, ‘Così dunque tradisci’ – ‘Aspri rimorsi atroci’, KV 432/421a; Aria, ‘Vado ma dove? oh Dei!’, KV 583; Aria, ‘Per pietà, non ricercate’; L’oca del Cairo: Sextet, ‘Corpo di Satanasso!’; Thamos, König in Ägypten: Chorus, ‘Ne pulvis et cinis superbe te geras’, and final music to the fifth act of the play Claire de Sévigné, Siobhan Stagg (sopranos) Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano) Mauro Peter (tenor) Huw Montague Rendall (baritone) Robert Gleadow (bass) Choir of Soloists from the Young Artists’ Project Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra Raphaël Pichon (conductor) Image: Salzburger Festspiele / Marco Borrelli Now this is just what the Salzburg Festival should be doing in its longstanding Mozart-Matinee series: one of the most delightful and thought-provoking I have yet to attend. Divided into three ‘scenes’, each accorded as title the subtitle of one of the Da Ponte operas, this concert, from […]
2019-01-30 15:47:00
Il primo omicidio, Opéra national de Paris, 26 January 2019
Palais Garnier Images: Bernd Uhlig / Opéra national de Paris Caino – Kristina Hammarström, Hippolyte Chapuis Abele – Olivia Vermeulen, Rémi Courtel Adamo – Thomas Walker, Armand Dumonteil Eva – Birgitte Christensen, Alma Perrin Voice of God – Benno Schachtner, Riccard Carducci Voice of Lucifer –Robert Gleadow, Léo Chatel Romeo Castellucci (director, designs) Silvia Costa (artistic collaboration) Piersandra Di Matteo, Christian Longchamp (dramaturgy) B’Rock Orchestra René Jacobs (conductor) The Paris Opéra celebrates its 350th anniversary this year. Its archives preserve its founding document, the twelve-year privilege or monopoly granted by Louis XIV, ‘par la Grâce de Dieu, Roy de France et de Navarre,’ to the poet Pierre Perrin, to found anywhere in France, with whichever business partners he might choose, academies of opera. This ‘Privilège accordé au Sieur Perrin pour l'établissement d'une Académie d'Opéra en Musique et en Vers François’ was renewed up […]
2015-09-15 15:00:02
Worth the candle
[…] when she warned of the Count’s amorous attentions, set the right frank tone to her portrayal. She clearly wasn’t planning on being taken advantage of. Her “Deh vieni” in the last act was languid in all the right ways and included a final cadenza into the stratosphere where she held the highest note for an impossibly long time before a graceful diminuendo and a return to earth with the final cadence. I had shivers. Robert Gleadow as Figaro and Florian Sempey as the Count where the most evenly matched pair I have ever seen in this opera. Both had rich, strong, voices and athletic, virile, stage presences. Naturally Mr. Gleadow did more than his share of scurrying and scheming but he too was plain in the fact that he was not about to be cowed in his determination to marry. Mr. Sempey, who, sported a very grand dressing gown, obviously […]
2015-05-11 03:11:00
This Week in Toronto (May 11 - 17)
My Toronto Concert Picks for the Week of May 11 to 17 ~ Joseph So American mezzo Cecelia Hall (Photo: Dario Acosta) The two spring productions of the Canadian Opera Company, The Barber of Seville and Bluebeard's Castle/Erwartung continue this week at the Four Seasons Centre. The Rossini stars American mezzo Cecelia Hall as the alternate Rosina on May 13, with Alec Shrader (Almaviva), Renato Girolami (Bartolo), Robert Gleadow (Basilio) and Aviva Fortunata (Bertha) rounding out the cast. A special performance by the COC Ensemble Studio singers (already announced as sold-out) will be given on May 15, starring mezzo Charlotte Burrage (Rosina), Clarence Frazer (Figaro), Andrew Haji/Jean-Philippe Fortier-Lazure (Almaviva), Iain MacNeil (Bartolo), Gordon Bintner (Basilio) and Karine Boucher (Bertha). Rory Macdonald conducts. (Frazer was unexpectedly pressed into service on May 9 replacing an indisposed Josh Hopkins as Figaro.) http://www.coc.ca/PerformancesAndTickets/1415Season/BarberofSeville.aspx Mezzo Charlotte Burrage […]
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