The production bears the imprint of the conductor, Marko Letonja, and the director, Tobias Richter, whose understanding is ideal: both breathe a troupe spirit - specific to comedy - into this heterogeneous cast, which brings together young and old. Both give as much importance to recitatives as to arias and ensembles.
Celebrated organist Sebastián Durón was unrivalled in his ability to marry Italian Baroque opera with incandescent Iberian folklore, much to the delight of the Spanish Court. Winners of the Opus Klassik prize for their recording of this music, Núria Rial and Fahmi Alqhai present Muera Cupido at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024. Programme : - Francisco Guerau (1649-1722) - Sebastián Durón - Fahmi Alqhai (*1976) - Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747) - José de Nebra (1702-1768)
In the 18th century, Hamburg Opera broke free from the influence of Italy, giving rise to a new musical culture in Germany. Counter-tenor Max Emanuel Cenčić offers us a glimpse of this vibrant operatic life from the stage of the stunning Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, accompanied by Christoph Rousset's Les Talens Lyriques. Chapters: - Reinhard Keiser - Georg Friedrich Haendel - Alessandro Scarlatti - Arcangelo Corelli - Johann Mattheson - Georg Philipp Telemann - Nicola Porpora
Young María, the embodiment of tango, leaves the outskirts of Buenos Aires and tries her luck in the chaotic downtown, where she triumphs in dark places ruled by crime and debauchery, unaware that a menacing presence stalks her, seeking her doom and death.
Passengers invites Yann Tiersen under the steel canopy of Tempelhof Airport. An expansive setting for the windswept sound of album Kerber, an ode to the Breton island of Ushant. Concert filmed on April 24, 2023 in the Great Hall of Tempelhof Airport, Berlin.
With this DVD and Blu-ray of Rodelinda, one of Handel’s most emotionally complex operas, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm adds to her impressive Erato catalogue of the composer’s works. The imaginative production, by Jean Bellorini, was seen at the Opéra de Lille in Autumn 2018, and the cast features soprano Jeanine De Bique in the title role, countertenor Tim Mead as her husband Bertarido and another countertenor, Erato’s rising star Jakub Józef Orliński as Unulfo. Reviewing the production, Le Monde noted Emmanuelle Haïm’s “intimate connection with this music, which she knows how to unleash in all its violence, passion and heart-wrenching expressivity.”
