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Italian singer and opera singer (1885-1969)
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- Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- opera singer
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2020-07-17 07:21:52
Almost sacred opera: the French group Les Accents in an engaging account of one of Alessandro Scarlatti's oratorios for 17th century Rome
[…] some of the best known Italian oratorios of the period, including Jephte (1648), so it is perhaps not surprising that his probable pupil Alessandro Scarlatti should also write quite a number of oratorios. A new recording of Alessandro Scarlatti's oratorio Il martirio di Santa Teodosia has been issued on the Aparte label performed by Les Accents, directed from the violin by Thibault Noally, with soloists Emmanuelle de Negri (Teodosia), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (Arsenio), Renato Dolcini (Urbano), and Anthea Pichanick (Decio). We do not know who commissioned Il martirio di Santa Teodosia nor who wrote the libretto, but it is postulated that the work was premiered in Rome in 1683 and it was presented in Modena two years later, and the libretto printed in Modena in 1686 (with no mention of the names of the composer or the librettist). Teodosia was a saint of the early […]
2015-07-19 03:03:00
[…] essentially an opera house, but of course it has remained as the only completely satisfactory venue for the great concerts. Both the Coliseo, the Auditorio de Belgrano and AMIJAI are reasonable alternatives, but what Buenos Aires needed was something similar to London´s complex of concert halls led by the Royal Festival Hall, and that was the model of the project that was brewed in the late 1960s by Jorge D´Urbano; it came very close to being accepted, but the disastrous 1973 ruined the idea, never implemented. Both the Usina and the CCK are imaginative reworkings of preexistent buildings: in the first case both the symphonic and the chamber halls are functioning; at the CCK we will have to wait several months before the chamber […]
2014-12-01 08:40:40
[…] Grace McLean & Them Apples at the big room at the Rockwood. At midnight across the way at the small room Royal Khaoz plays roots reggae – the first-ever reggae band to play here! Yeah mon! 12/23-28 reliably electrifying pianist Kenny Barron leads a quintet with Stefon Harris on vibes Elena Pinderhughes on flute, Kiyoshi Kitagawa on bass Johnathan Blake on drums at the Vanguard, 8:30/10:30 PM, $25 12/23, 8:30 PM Chilean vibraphonist Diego Urbano with Dave Robaire, bass; Jimmy Macbride, drums play cutting-edge, tuneful, south-of-the-border third-stream sounds at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min 12/23, 6 PM surf/twang instrumental rockers the Bakersfield Breakers – whose new album is a dead ringer for something from 1963, unbelievably cool and fun – at Slake 12/23, 10 PM edgy alto saxophonist David Binney leads his group at 55 Bar 12/24, 10 PM cutting-edge trumpeter Jeremy Pelt leads a small group […]
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