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2022-02-22 09:00:41
This year the Handel Festival Halle is celebrating its centenary. That first festival in Handel's birthplace in 1922 is one of the defining moments of the modern revival of interest in Handel's wider music. The Hallisches Händelfest in 1922 concluded with a performance of Handel's Orlando, and the 2022 centenary festival, which runs from 27 May to 12 June 2022 will being with a new production of Orlando conducted by Christian Curnyn and directed by Walter Sutcliffe, the new artistic director of Halle Opera. The 1922 festival also included Susanna and Semele, both of which are being performed in 2022 along with a wide range of other works. After that first festival, the Halle Handel Society was formed in 1925 and a second festival took place in 1929 with a third in 1935. The fourth festival took place in 1949, and since 1952 the festival has become annual. Other operas to […]
2021-12-04 03:31:00
Stephen Sondheim
[…] Hammersteins, yes, those Hammersteins. That would provide some advantages to a budding lyricist/composer, advantages that most don't have. Knowing that, it's good to know about his kindness toward others and that he was a decent man. Obits: Tim Page, Washington Post Bruce Weber, NY Times (This obit was updated on 12/2/21 to state that the cause of death was "cardiovascular disease," which I take to mean "heart attack.") Tom Sutcliffe, The Guardian Many more tributes and obits can be found with a web search. On Twitter, dozens of people posted photos of letters they'd received from him, and they are a delight to read.
2020-05-31 10:21:37
A Life On-Line: Agrippina from The Grange, Sadko from Flanders, Les Troyens from the Met and Messiah from Bristol
Handel: Messiah - Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Jamie Beddard, The Erebus Ensemble, The English Concert - Bristol Old Vic 2017 (Photo Jack Offord) This week our opera viewing had two themes, Handel (in the form of Agrippina and Messiah) and operatic epics (in the form of Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko and Berlioz' Les Troyens). Our viewing week started with Handel's Agrippina from The Grange Festival in 2018 [see my review]. Walter Sutcliffe's vividly theatrical production sets the piece in a theatre with Anna Bonitatibus, Raffaele Pe and Christopher Ainslie all scheming to succeed Ashley Riches' theatre director Claudio, with Stefanie True as Poppea (what Winton Dean described as one of Handel's 'sex kitten' roles!). In the theatre, the performance made strong use of the small theatre, and film brought us even closer to the singers. With some great Handel singing and playing; Robert Howarth directing the Academy of Ancient Music. The […]
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