No matter how many times you've heard Le nozze di Figaro, you owe it to yourself to hear this Le nozze di Figaro. It is fresh and funny and silly and moving and enchanting and as wise and as knowing as the work itself. The singers are the ideal kind of opera singers who make you forget they're singing because their acting is so good and their ...
Música en el Quijote, Orphénica Lyra's 2005 release, is a delightful compilation of Spanish songs and dances from the lifetime of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Corresponding to the various kinds of music described in The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha and Cervantes' other writings, the selections are predominantly vocal, sung with ...
There are folks out there who never care to attend another Measure for Measure, who never care to watch another Modern Times, and who never care to hear another Le Nozze di Figaro because to them, comedy is obviously a lesser art form than tragedy. To them one can only say: "too bad!" because as this immensely musical and enormously humorous ...
A warning to purists: there's little in the packaging of this CD to indicate the interpretive freedom with which the ensemble, l'Arpeggiata led by Christina Pluhar, treats some of the Monteverdi love songs and madrigals on the album. There's a hint in the opening track, the Toccata from Orfeo, in its wonderfully reckless abandon and prominent use ...
Spanish soprano Núria Rial and American counter tenor Lawrence Zazzo join forces in an outstanding selection of duets and scenes from Handel operas. For most of the operas, they have included recitatives, arias, and even overtures and instrumental interludes to provide the context for the duets. The result is wonderfully effective in giving the ...
The contents of this release are a good deal more focused than the Ave Maria title, or even the "Musik zu Marienfesten" (Music for Marian Festivals), would imply. In fact this is a collection of solo arias with Marian texts and instrumental sonatas, from southern Germany, Austria, and northern Italy, from the seventeenth century. Far from the ...
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