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Month: November 2006
Salzburg Festival Looks for ëNocturnal Side of Reasoní
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/arts/music/30salz.html
Monteverdi’s naked ambition
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-375566-details/The+Coronation+of+Poppea/showReview.do?reviewId=23376220
CHARPENTIER: Le Malade Imaginaire
On the 10th February 1673, only a few months after their first collaboration, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as MoliËre (1622-1673), and Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) presented at the Palais Royal’s theater…
All the Ends of the Earth: Contemporary & Medieval Vocal Music
There is an often compelling relationship between early and contemporary music. The relationship grows out of many different things.
CHARPENTIER: AndromËde; Ballet de Polyeucte
Conceived by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) to serve as musical interludes for a revival at the Jesuit college of Harcourt in 1680 of Pierre Corneille’s play, Polyeucte Martyr (originally written in…
Opera on verge of caricature
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061127.OPERA27/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Music/
Andreas Scholl, Barbican Hall, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5ca9d886-7e3a-11db-84bb-0000779e2340.html
MEYERBEER: Robert Le Diable
Robert Le Diable, grand opera in five acts. Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864). Libretto by EugËne Scribe and Germaine Delavigne.