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2022-02-13 09:18:09
Jakub Jozef Orlinski (Photo Jiyang Chen) Janez Krsnik Tolar, Georg Reutter, Antonio Lotti, Nicola Conti, Francisco Antonio de Almeida, Baldassare Galuppi, Gaetano Maria Schiassi, Bartolomeo Nucci, Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Johann Joseph Fux, David Perez, Handel; Jakub Józef Orliński, Il Pomo d'Oro, Francesco Corti; Wigmore Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 10 February 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Hot from his triumphs in Handel's Theodora at Covent Garden, the Polish countertenor devastates and dazzles in a programme of music by Handel's lesser known contemporaries.I think we sometimes forget quite how much music was created in the 18th century. Great swathes have been lost, but much survives. Composers were largely local men, and texts would be pass around, taking different settings in each town. There are composers whose reputation nowadays rests on a single piece, if that. This is something of the back story to counter-tenor […]
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2020-09-07 07:54:31
Vienna’s great organ is back after 30 years
The great organ in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna is about to return to service after 30 years’ silence. Last played in 1991, the organ – installed in 1956 to replace its bombed-out predecessor – was painstakingly restored over a very long period in a small workshop under Government supervision without anyone offering an explanation […]
2019-08-24 07:18:07
A stage seven times the size of the Vienna State Opera: I chat to Daniel Serafin, artistic director of Oper im Steinbruch (Opera in the Quarry) in Austria
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Oper im Steinbruch, 2019 (Photo Raimund Bauer Bühnenbild Media Apparat) Daniel Serafin (Photo Lisa Schulcz) The quarry at St Margarethen im Burgenland (some 50km South-East of Vienna) in Austria has been there since Roman times, and it supplied stone for St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna and many of the buildings on the Ringstrasse, and the modern part of the quarry continues to do so. Within this fascinating landscape, opera has been presented since the 1990s. The festival, Oper im Steinbruch, is now supported by the Esterházy Foundation, which owns the quarry, and the local authority, das Land Burgenland. There was no opera last year, and this year Daniel Serafin took over as artistic director and Oper im Steinbruch (Opera in the Quarry) presented Mozart's Die Zauberflöte [see my review].Whilst attending Die Zauberflöte I was able to meet Daniel and chat with him […]
2019-08-16 16:30:31
Large scale, striking & engaging: Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in an historic quarry in Austria
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Oper im Steinbruch (Photo Andreas Tischler) Mozart Die Zauberflöte; Kateryna Kasper, Michael Porter, Luke Stoker, Danae Kontora, Uwe Schenke Primus, dir: Carolin Pienkos & Cornelius Obonya, cond: Karsten Januschke; Oper im Steinbruch, Austria Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 15 August 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Impressive both in scale and artistic quality, Mozart's opera performed in an historic quarry in AustriaOper im Steinbruch (Opera in the Quarry) presents opera in the 2000 quarry at St Margarethen near Eisenstadt in Austria. Opera has been performed there since the late 1990s, but there was no opera last year and this year is the first under the new artistic director Daniel Serafin, himself a former singer but with a degree in business administration and something of a minor Austrian celebrity as he has been on the country's equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing twice.The quarry is […]