Baroque: Ades News

 
Going for Baroque on a Tight Budget
Wall Street Journal
Next year's schedule leans courageously toward the exotic—Adès's "Powder Her Face," Rossini's "Moses in Egypt" and Offenbach's "La Périchole"—with Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" serving as the only marginally familiar repertoire choice.

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In a rare appearance, Telemann's 'Orpheus' given staging by New York City Opera
Washington Post
With abundant arias, there is interesting music for all the primary singers, but the composing is less spectacular than other Baroque works. “Orpheus” — pronounced “Orfois” — was given its North American premiere at Wolf Trap in Virginia six years ...

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(Photo: From left, Pavel Antonov, Carol Rosegg (3))
New York Magazine
Orpheus and Eurydice attempted their escape from Hades atop separate tables that were wheeled around in a touching pas de deux, but neither Taichman nor designer David Zinn could resist Baroque opera's contemporary clichés: Orpheus in Gatsby-ish white; ...


 
Yahoo! Canada Shine
In a rare appearance, Telemann's 'Orpheus' given staging by New York City Opera
Yahoo! Canada Shine
With abundant arias, there is interesting music for all the primary singers, but the composing is less spectacular than other Baroque works. "Orpheus" — pronounced "Orfois" — was given its North American premiere at Wolf Trap in Virginia six years ...

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Telemann's 'Orpheus' given staging by NYC Opera
Yahoo! Philippines News
With abundant arias, there is interesting music for all the primary singers, but the composing is less spectacular than other Baroque works. "Orpheus" — pronounced "Orfois" — was given its North American premiere at Wolf Trap in Virginia six years ...

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The Arts Desk
theartsdesk Q&A: Countertenor Iestyn Davies
The Arts Desk
I'll be back for Tom Adès's The Tempest as Trinculo the jester, which is a rather smaller role. It's actually a part I asked for; I saw that the opera was coming up in the schedule and as it's such an unimportant role comparatively – it's not like ...


 
Le Devoir (Abonnement)
Festivals classiques - Tout en musique
Le Devoir (Abonnement)
... le second Festival d'opéra de Québec organisera, en coproduction avec le Metropolitan Opera, la première présentation mondiale de la mise en scène par Robert Lepage de l'opéra The Tempest de Thomas Adès, créé au Covent Garden de Londres en 2004.