Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Review of Alcina
Labels:
opera review
My review of the concert performance of Alcina at the Barbican on Saturday is here, the review is on the OperaToday website (http://www.operatoday.com)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts this month
-
Total Permission underwater As part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad there was a strand called Unlimited which encouraged deaf and ... -
Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra I get all sorts of mail, people sending my information on concerts and recordings. Everything gets gl... -
The Maggini Quartet in Battersea Park - Bandstand Chamber Festival (Photo William Marsey) Beethoven String Quartet in G, Op.18 No. 2 , D... -
Recording the 19'40" album At the Gates of the Twighlight Zone Apart from his well-known films, composer Bernard Herrmann 's ot... -
Tim Mead and La Nuova Musica (taken from videostream ) Whilst this week has been notable for live performances in peron, there has been plen... -
Aurora Orchestra under the West Handyside Canopy at Kings Cross Beethoven Symphony No. 7 ; Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon; West Handy... -
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov Whilst the BBC Proms' live performances started last week with the BBC Symphony Orchestra i... -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Bernard Haitink, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2019 BBC Proms (Photo BBC / Chris Christodoulou) In 201... -
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet - Solem Quartet, Anthony Friend Bandstand Chamber Festival at Battersea Park (Photo William Marsey) Haydn Quarte... -
Suzi Digby and ORA Singers in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern Our week started with Joyce DiDonato who gave a live recital as part of the Met ...
Hiya,
ReplyDeleteThanks for reviewing the show! :o) I'm hugely jealous you got to experience it live. I'd fly anywhere in the USA to hear Marc Minkowski and his Les musiciens du Louvre do baroque opera, but the other side of the Atlantic is a bit far away. :o(
I was also delighted to read that you and a few others also enjoy baroque opera played with dramatic conviction rather than in the standard 'stylistically correct to the point of sterilization' manner. :o) I think those opera-going folks in the 1700's were as fun-loving as we are (they might even like good rock and roll music if they could ever listen to it), so I'm highly skeptical of the popular notion that music lovers back then valued clean singing better than we do today.
Anyhow, if you could still edit the Opera Today review, Kasarova only has one ess in her last name. A minor and insignificant glitch if you can't anyhow!
Thanks again and hope your December is going well!
Smorg :o)