René Jacobs is an acknowledged master of informed period performance practice, and he turns his considerable arsenal of research, insight, and experience to Don Giovanni, which he maintains has become so mired in misguided nineteenth century interpretive traditions that most modern performances badly misrepresent Mozart's intentions. He points out ...
René Jacobs is an acknowledged master of informed period performance practice, and he turns his considerable arsenal of research, insight, and experience to Don Giovanni, which he maintains has become so mired in misguided nineteenth century interpretive traditions that most modern performances badly misrepresent Mozart's intentions. He points out ...
Bavarian composer Simon Mayr was centered in the Northern Italian city of Bergamo, which in the early eighteenth century enjoyed a reputation as sort of "little Vienna," reflecting the cultural thrust of what was then the center of the universe as far as the arts in Europe were concerned. Mayr's contribution to Italian opera was critical -- ...
Arguably, Haydn's best opera isn't an opera at all. The oratorio Il ritorno di Tobia, Hob. 21/1, composed in 1775 and recorded here with two choruses added in 1784, is putatively a sacred work, drawing on the biblical (at least for Catholics and the Orthodox) Book of Tobit. But the narrative, featuring the return of a prodigal son, a fish-liver ...
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