Showing posts with label baroque culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baroque culture. Show all posts
Friday, 18 May 2018

Painterly Charpentier Histoires sacrées : London Festival of the Baroque

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photo: Philippe Delval Marc-Antoine Charpentier Histoires sacrées with Ensemble Correspondances, conducted by Sébastien Daucé, ...
Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Rameau Motets Prom William Christie Les Arts Florissants

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Best of the season so far! William Christie and Les Arts Florissants  performed Rameau Grand Motets at late night Prom 17. Perfection, a...
Monday, 28 April 2014

Rameau Zaïs Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment QEH

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Shepherdesses, gods and supernatural sylphs, jostling merrily together in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Zaïs,  performed by the Orchestra of...
Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Handel Rinaldo Baroque Puppets

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Tickets are now on sale for Glyndebourne's Handel Rinaldo, ( read my review here )  But at the Baden  State Theatre in Karlsruhe, a...
Saturday, 1 March 2014

ENO Rodelinda Handel Hip and oddly HIP

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The ENO's Rodelinda will shock some, but the real shock is that it's closer to Handelian values than one might expect.  Glyndebo...
Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Prince kisses Frog - Rameau Platée

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As the opening credits for the classic Laurent Pelly production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Platée roll, we hear Marc Minkowski conduc...
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Monday, 1 July 2013

Glyndebourne Hippolyte et Aricie Rameau revitalized

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Glyndebourne revitalizes Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie. Baroque tastes were extravagant. Louis XIV, Le Roi Soleil, and his successor Lo...
Sunday, 30 June 2013

Hippolyte et Aricie Rameau Glyndebourne Part One

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Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie at Glyndebourne last night. CLICK HERE FOR MY FULL REVIEW . Haha! Judging by the applause most of the au...
Thursday, 9 May 2013

Shakespeare's Globe with ROH extras

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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre isn't the original Elzabethan Globe theatre but a 1997 recreation,  geared to the international marke...
Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Dancing Baroque? Handel and Rameau

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Handel's Giulio Cesare at the ENO raises intereesting questions. Michael Keegan-Dolan is a choreographer, so his staging would natur...
Thursday, 19 July 2012

Christie Charpentier David et Jonathas Aix

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier's David et Jonathas live from Aix-en-Provence is now available streamed outside France on arte.tv This is ...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Common sense about the Met's The Enchanted Island

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When the Met did The Enchanted Island Martin Bernheimer tore it to shreds, and many others followed (almost word for word). Yet many enjoy...
Monday, 23 January 2012

The Enchanted Island at the Met - deeper than expected

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Extravagance is the essence of baroque, but few houses can do spectacles as well as the Met. So when the  Met throws its might behind The E...
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Thursday, 14 July 2011

Handel Rinaldo at Glyndebourne

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When Glyndebourne's Handel Rinaldo reaches the Proms on 25th August (live, and broadcast online) make sure you listen, because some of t...
Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Linley Sheridan and Gainsborough mystery

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Thomas Linley's La Duenna opens tomorrow at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio in a production by English Touring Opera. The lib...
Sunday, 11 July 2010

Drottningholm - real period Mozart

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The Court Theatre at Drottningholm was built in 1766, but was sealed up after the death of  Gustav III, King of Sweden....
Friday, 15 January 2010

No more music at the V&A ?

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London's V&A Museum is closing the gallery displaying its collection of musical instruments. Other galleries are being expanded, bu...
Friday, 4 December 2009

The Sacred made Real - No muzak!

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The Sacred made Real at the National Gallery was an exhibition I wanted to escape because the subject matter is distressing. But I'm gl...