| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 25-Aug-2012 Haus für Mozart | Giulio Cesare in Salzburg |
 Giulio Cesare, an opera populated with manipulative characters that only interact with each other when shared interests are at stake, is a receptive vessel for a scornful indictment of imperialism and the dubious alliances it forges. With recourse to the obvious present-day target it is perhaps also a concept already fully mined by Peter Sellars, who in the late 1980s presented Caesar as a high-handed U.S. president out to further American interests in the Middle East, and revisited themes of Western moral hypocrisy in his 1996 Glyndebourne staging of Theodora.Read full review... | |
| 23-Nov-2011 Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House | Rodelinda at the Met |
 Handel, two cracking counter-tenors and Renée Fleming were all the excuses needed for a long-overdue trip to New York to hear Stephen Wadsworth's production of Rodelinda - the very piece which revived interest in Handel's opera following its performance in Göttingen in the 1920s. By baroque standards, the plot is a relatively unconvoluted one, since the main action - the overthrow (and presumed death) of King Bertarido - has taken place before the opera begins. Bertarido's usurper, Grimoaldo, now wishes to seize the throne by marriage to the Queen, Rodelinda.Read full review... | |
| 20-Oct-2011 Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall | One Charming Night with Andreas Scholl and The English Concert |
 17th Century Europe witnessed the rise of Italian opera and French ballet. These forms, and the distinct musical language of their composers, were highly influential on the music of England and Germany. The cosmopolitan music of Henry Purcell made up the bulk of The English Concert’s program, along with two instrumental works by his German contemporaries Heinrich Biber and Georg Muffat.
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| 30-May-2011 Haakon's Hall (Håkonshallen) | English songs of love and melancholy - Andreas Scholl in Norway |
 If one had idly wondered how a programme of English love songs, sung by a German, would be received by a Norwegian audience, in a wet and windy Bergen, the answer came loud and clear at this week's International Festival. Andreas Scholl is obviously as popular in Norway as he is in the UK and the concert was sold out months ago (more than once, apparently, judging by the cheerful Norwegian-style chaos sorting out twice-booked seats).Read full review... | |
