Ja sabíem que seria un lluïment personal del contratenor Franco Fagioli, no soc “barrocaire” de pedra picada, però la resta de noms del cast no em cridava gens l’atenció i només Il Pomo d’Oro i el director George Petrou estaven a priori a l’alçada de l’estratosfèric cantant argenti.
El director grec m’ha agradat molt, atent a les veus, equilibrant i donat una vitalitat estimulant molt d’agrair,…
Franco Fagioli performs Vo solcando un mar crudele from the opera Artaserse (Leonardo Vinci*, 1730), at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy, season 2012/13.
*not the painter who lived about 200 years earlier
The Grammy Award Ceremony, scheduled for 31 January 2021 on CBS, has been postponed. A press release by the organisers of the Grammy Awards reads:
After thoughtful conversations with health experts, our host and artists scheduled to appear, we are rescheduling the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards® to be broadcast Sunday 14 March 2021.
Nominations in the classical music categories include Cecilia…
Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.
Emmanuelle de Negri and Ana Quintans—both of whom I remember from the Hippolyte et Aricie at Glyndebourne that indirectly kicked off this blog—are among the soloists in another Rameau opera, Les Indes galantes, this time at the Beaune Festival. Valentin Tournet conducts the La Chapelle Harmonique Choir and Orchestra. Live broadcast Friday, July 26 on France Musique.*
Alice Coote, Gianlucca Buratto, Franco Fagioli, Elsa Benoit, and Iestyn Davies star in a video livestream of Handel’s Agrippina from the Bayerische Staatsoper on Sunday, July 28 (NOT Tuesday the 23rd as mistakenly stated earlier on my blog). Ivor Bolton conducts; Barrie Kosky is the director.
I haven’t yet heard soprano Mariana Flores in performance but the name of baroque composer Barbara Strozzi caught my eye in the listing for Flores’ Proms concert with the Cappella Mediterranea (conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón). Monday, July 29 on BBC Radio 3.*
* France Musique and BBC Radio 3 usually make concert broadcasts available for listening on demand on their websites for a few weeks following the initial broadcast. The Beeb is pretty reliable; France Musique is maybe 80% hit, 20% miss (perhaps due to the terms of their contracts with various orchestras).