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...The moment Christopher Ainslie set foot on the stage for Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes at the end of the evening, everything shifted. Ainslie has theatre in every molecule....
...A more intriguing prospect is that social media is, in the words of economists Leonardo Bursztyn, Ben Handel, Rafael Jimenez and Christopher Roth, a “collective trap”....
...It is not clear why Christopher Luscombe’s genial production opted for the change of period, as little is gained and only one of the singers makes much of the art deco chic....
...British bass baritone Christopher Purves sings Saul, the Old Testament king driven mad by his envy of the young David (Danish countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen)....
...Handel Hendrix House, where Jimi Hendrix lived for a year in London, has now reopened following restoration....
...Well, as Christopher Cox, Citi’s global head of trade and working capital solutions, pointed out to us, companies have a fair few more pressing concerns....
...Nothing has come along to knock Handel’s Messiah off the top spot over the past 250 years, despite honourable efforts by Berlioz and Britten....
...A Handel oratorio depends heavily on its choir and bolstering the Grange Festival Chorus with The Sixteen under its founder and conductor Harry Christophers gave the performance a tremendous shot in the...
...Chance’s extensive performing experience in Baroque repertoire makes him unusually well qualified to undertake the preparation for Handel’s early Venetian opera Agrippina — a brilliant satire about sex and...
...Garsington Opera opens its season with its first ever production of a work by Handel....
...Christopher Alden’s production of Partenope for English National Opera was new in 2008, when it won an Olivier Award....
...Handel Saul Glyndebourne (Opus Arte) A vast, gaudy, Baroque banquet, worthy of Hogarth, is only the first coup de théâtre in Barrie Kosky’s staging of Handel’s oratorio....
...He found it eye-opening working on Handel’s Jephtha with the theatre director Katie Mitchell....
...Not for nothing did musicologist Winton Dean compare Handel’s Saul to Shakespeare’s King Lear, and Christopher Purves’ extraordinary performance in the title role — a triumph of vocal accomplishment and...
...As well as having the opera’s most poignant arias, Christopher Ainslie as Ottone gets to spend a lot of time singing shirtless....
...Other recordings, though, have dug deeper into the lacerating human dilemma at the heart of Handel’s last great oratorio. Handel Jephtha The Sixteen (Coro)...
...No one embodied the extraordinary rise of early music more than Christopher Hogwood, who died on Wednesday aged 73....
...As conductors Christopher Hogwood of the Academy of Ancient Music, Trevor Pinnock and John Eliot Gardiner attempted to take music by Bach, Purcell and Handel back to source — posing basic questions about...
...It has commissions by Gavin Bryars, Aaron Jay Kernis and Christopher Rouse to its name....
...Another countertenor, Christopher Lowrey, as the villainous Gernando, displays a dazzling technique when not taking sniffs from a stash of Rosimonda’s panties; Njål Sparbo is a solid Gustavo....
...Richard Burkhard’s Garibaldo sounds crisp but dull, while Christopher Ainslie, as Unolfo, profiles a promising countertenor....
...This is Handel with a Scandinavian accent, and it is absolutely worth the journey. operaen.no...
...There are no rare Handel operas any more....
...The Academy of Ancient Music began life as “a refugee operation for period-instrument players”, in the words of its founder Christopher Hogwood....
...Handel Finest Arias For Base Voice Christopher Purves (Hyperion)...
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