#gwendoline blondeel

[issela-santina]

Reinoud van Mechelen, what's it like to play a t(en)ortured heterosexual Greek lover boy in French opera while the staging feels more like 70% installation art, 30% storytelling

LEFT — Hippolyte et Aricie, Staatsoper under den Linden, 2018. Pictured are soprano Anna Prohaska as Aricie and tenor Reinoud van Mechelen as Hippolyte who is right behind her, covered in smoke as Aricie cries out for him.

RIGHT — Titon et l'Aurore, Opéra Comique, 2021. Pictured left to right are soprano Gwendoline Blondeel as Aurore and Reinoud van Mechelen as Titon. Aurore approaches a prematurely elderly and balded Titon who sits and laments his sudden curse while he strokes his white beard reaching the floor in his seated stoop.

[child-of-hurin]

François Couperin (1668-1733) Trois Leçons de Ténèbres

Marin Marais (1656-1728) Chaconne

Gwendoline Blondeel Camille Hubert Ronan Kernoa Ewald Demeyere

[luvetlux]

Johann Sebastian Bach Matthäus-Passion BWV 244

Live übertragen am 05.04.2023 aus der Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Freiburger Barockorchester Vox Luminis Hamburger Knabenchor Zsuzsi Tóth | Sopran Gwendoline Blondeel | Sopran Alexander Chance | Alt William Shelton | Countertenor Raphael Höhn | Evangelist Florian Sievers | Tenor Raffaele Giordani | Tenor Sebastian Myrus | Jesus Felix Schwandtke | Bass Lionel Meunier | Leitung

[mostlymezzo]

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Partenope with Rae, Iervolino, Davies, et al., and a concert by Les Arts Flo

The Partenope cast in Madrid is top notch. You can pay to watch the archived livestream or listen for free on Radio Clásica this Saturday. I don’t know the singers for the Les Arts Florissants concert as well, but with Christie conducting, it’s probably going to be worth a listen.

Charpentier and Campra are on the program for a concert by Les Arts Florissants with Gwendoline Blondeel, Nicholas Scott, Zachary Wilder, and Marc Mauillon. William Christie conducts. Deferred broadcast Tuesday, November 23 on France Musique.

Brenda Rae, Teresa Iervolino, Iestyn Davies, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jeremy Ovenden, and Nikolay Borchev star in Handel’s Partenope at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Ivor Bolton conducts. Deferred broadcast Saturday, November 27 on Radio Clásica.

[lmarodrigues]

An infant raised (Saül; Handel) - Gwendoline Blondeel

[issela-santina]

“My features are obliterated by the hatred of the gods.”

Titon et l'Aurore, Opéra Comique, 2021, shot as it's aired on TV via Mezzo. Pictured are soprano Gwendoline Blondeel as the goddess of dawn Aurore and tenor Reinoud van Mechelen as her mortal lover Titon, who sits and laments the gods cursing him to age a little too fast.

[issela-santina]

I really cannot unsee the way the props people in the dark had to put each piece of that old man look on the actor like a succession of Formula One pit stops

“My features are obliterated by the hatred of the gods.”

Titon et l'Aurore, Opéra Comique, 2021, shot as it's aired on TV via Mezzo. Pictured are soprano Gwendoline Blondeel as the goddess of dawn Aurore and tenor Reinoud van Mechelen as her mortal lover Titon, who sits and laments the gods cursing him to age a little too fast.