| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 8-Feb-2013 Église de Saanen, Saanen | Opera seria brought to life by Zazzo and the Geneva Chamber Orchestra |
 Question: how do you demonstrate to a sceptical audience that baroque opera seria doesn’t have to be boring? To answer this, the organisers of Sommets Musicaux and David Greilsammer, conductor of the Geneva Chamber Orchestra came up with a programme consisting of four Handel arias interspersed with orchestral passages from French baroque opera, these chosen for their variety and dance-based character.
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| 1-Oct-2012 The London Coliseum | ENO's Julius Caesar in Egypt |
 The full name of Handel's opera is Giulio Cesare in Egitto: it depicts a historically loose version of Caesar's sojourn in Alexandria, during which Pompey is murdered, Ptolemy is killed in battle and Cleopatra is installed as Queen. In Michael Keegan-Dolan's new production for ENO, we know we're in Egypt straight away because when we enter the auditorium, we see a giant crocodile in the middle of an otherwise plain stage (apart from the dead giraffe in the corner, of which more later).Read full review... | |
| 20-Jul-2012 Prinzregententheater | Mozart's Mitridate in Munich through a child's eyes |
 Mozart wrote the opera seria Mitridate at the age of fifteen. The Bayerische Staatsoper’s clever and strangely beautiful production positions it as the work of a child, full of rebellious teenagers and projected scenery seemingly drawn from a primary school art class. But unfortunately even excellent singing and much directorial invention cannot disguise that this is a rather bland opera, and its four hours pass slowly.
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| 7-Oct-2010 The London Coliseum | ENO scores another winner in Radamisto |
 Handel’s opera Radamisto received a welcome staging at the English National Opera last Thursday, following on from their successful productions of Agrippina and Partenope in recent years. First performed at the King’s Theatre Haymarket in 1720, Radamisto was the work with which Handel launched his new opera company Royal Academy of Music (nothing to do with the college of the same name) and it was immediately revived in subsequent seasons. (This production is based on the revised version).Read full review... | |
