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Lundbooks Editorial (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
We've had a positive feast of Handel this last ten days. For a start English Touring Opera brought five operas to Cambridge, performed one per night over a week. We went to three of them. We started on the Tuesday with Flavio . Like most Handel operas is has a very silly plot, involving a chap killing his fiance's father for having slapped his own father in the face. Honour is more than love, you know....
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Musicweb Times (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The ROTYs for this year will be made public in tomorrow's (Nov 27) update, but if you would like a sneak preview before then, you can click here . As the ROTY compiler, I feel a few summary comments are in order. 139 selections have come in from 29 members of the team, with one more who has promised me his will be on the way very soon after he returns from a month's holiday in the tropical sun. This...
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
In celebration of their 25th birthday and the 250th anniversary of the death of Handel, English Touring Opera has devised Handelfest, an extravaganza of five operas (Flavio, Teseo, Tolomeo, Alcina and Ariodante) and a wide variety of masterclasses and workshops taking in several of the company’s usual touring venues.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
Some productions are more fun than the sum of their parts. Handel's Admeto, Re di Tessaglia isn't one of his best operas: it doesn't have the melodic or dramatic power of, say, Semele or Alcina. Yet Doris Dörrie's production at the Edinburgh International Festival has a lot of charm, with sunny playing, striking design and some very appealing dancing.
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
She's sung almost everything from Morgana in Handel's Alcina to Ophélie in Thomas's Hamlet, but tonight, the bomb drops on...
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Ionarts (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Handel, Alcina, J. DiDonato, M. Beaumont, K. Gauvin, Il Complesso Barocco, A. Curtis(released on April 14, 2009)Archiv 477 7374Online full score:HWV 34 (old complete works edition)Libretto (.PDF file, adapted from libretto of L'isola di Alcina, by Riccardo Broschi, the brother of the castrato Farinelli)Preceding their release of Handel's Ezio, reviewed last week, Alan Curtis and Il Complesso
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Ionarts (Free subscription) | 22/06/2009
Handel, Ezio, A. Hallenberg, K. Gauvin, V. Priante, Il Complesso Barocco, A. Curtis(released on May 12, 2009)Archiv 477 8073Online score:HWV 29Alan Curtis's outstanding series of Handel opera recordings continues in the composer's anniversary year with two releases, an Alcina with Joyce DiDonato (review forthcoming) and the first complete studio recording of a much less known opera, Ezio from
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/06/2009
The Australian operatic mezzo Margreta Elkins was tall and slender, with a beautiful warm-toned voice. She spent nearly 20 years in Britain during her long career, singing at Covent Garden and with other companies. A great friend of Joan Sutherland, whom she first met in 1949 at the Mobil Quest singing competition, Elkins appeared with the soprano many times, in London, America and Australia. They...
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Canadian director Robert Carsen's decade-old production of Haendel's Alcina, to celebrate the 250th anniversary to Handel's death was dusted off...
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Teatro alla Scala unveils a new Robert Carsen production of Georg Friedrich Händel's Alcina tomorrow night, and Opera Chic will be there (you won't -- except maybe for that dude over there) to bask in the glory of the sovereign,...
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 22/01/2009
Witness some of the opera stars of tomorrow in Handel's opera "Alcina," a Studio Opera Series production at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music this weekend.
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