Vocally, I thought most of the cast were very good. In smaller roles, Günes Gürie (Besso) and Taras Berezhansky (Ercole) were both impressive, but didn’t really have enough chance to shine. Delpha (Dominique Visse, in fatsuit) approaches one of her victims. Francesco Cavalli's Baroque opera is staged with a cheeky sensibility in Highland Park. The opera "Ercole Amante" composed in 1662 by Francesco Cavalli relates Hercules' love life. Approximate Run Time: Cavalli's La Calisto plays in 2 hours and 15 minutes with one intermission. Francesco Cavalli—Requiem (Ensemble Polyharmonique/Alexander Schneider). In 1990, after a sizeable donation, the Glover Music School was opened at Monmouth School by Jane Glover, in memory of her father. Sit back and marvel. Once Aegeus (Raúl Giménez) hears about his wife’s flight, he decides to follow her – because, despite everything, he actually loves Medea – accompanied by his long-suffering hunchbacked and stuttering servant Demo (Migran Agadzhanyan). La Didone was premiered in 1641, a year after Monteverdi's Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria and a year before L'Incoronazione di Poppea. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. She did not return to Italy until her husband's death in 1689. Elena was penned in 1659, and was never performed since. Stellar CD, as you can probably tell; an essential for any CT aficionado’s collection. If any regular readers still think that Baroque opera is highbrow, serious stuff, I invite you to listen to Giasone’s first major aria. The most lavish and vast villa of the ancient Rome, the Domus Aurea. She has conducted opera at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Berlin Staatsoper, Royal Danish Opera, Opéra National du Rhin, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, and Teatro La Fenice. The book investigates the extent to which the women surrounding Mozart – his mother, sister, wife and his wife's sisters – influenced his development as a composer. And Cavalli was a central figure in the evolution of opera, easily the best known and most popular composer of such works in his age. Here he made a very good job of making a hero unsympathetic, of stripping away the glamour of Jason of Thessaly and letting us see the silly little man beneath. Raum Klang CD RK 3601. (Oreste finds it hard to be entirely sad about this, as he has a long-cherished soft spot for his young mistress.) ( Log Out /  After reading Music as an undergraduate at St Hugh's College, Oxford, she went on to complete a DPhil on 17th-century Venetian Opera. Review of Handel in London: The Making of a Genius. On 29 May 1672, fearing that her husband would kill her, Mancini left Rome accompanied by her sister Hortense Mancini. "[10] She has been a regular collaborator with choreographer Mark Morris. As Medea’s rival, Aspromonte was a loyal innocent, the purity of her voice backing up her character. She was music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 to 1985. Canning, Hugh. In 1990, after a sizeable donation, the Glover Music School[1] was opened at Monmouth School by Jane Glover, in memory of her father. Many are difficult to stage, but those who persist, find works that have a good deal of power and were critical to the development of opera as it is known today. Funnily enough, he was much, much better in the second half and we had plenty more of his characteristic bell-like long high notes, much to my delight. As a matter of fact, having so much space suddenly available in the city centre, gave Nero the opportunity to build right on the Colle Oppio the most lavish and vast villa of the ancient Rome, the Domus Aurea.. Hope you’re ok otherwise. Of course, much of that may have been deliberate, to underscore the innate comedy of a man playing a woman… and I think part of it is that I just don’t warm to him. I was also pleasantly surprised by Meerapfel’s Oreste, who was heartsick without losing his dignity, and who provided a sober rallying point amid Hypsipyle’s fluttering handmaidens. Still, if you have a comedy nurse in Cavalli, she’s always after the young men. Jason is a figure of mockery: a man ‘effeminate’ in the Baroque sense of the word, whose manly qualities have been diluted through excessive sex with women. I’ve never been a great fan, I admit, and his strength here was very definitely comedy rather than singing, as his voice wavered wildly between (creditable) falsetto and broken chest voice. It was so very nearly four stars, but I just felt there were too many issues for me to give it that rating with a clear conscience. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Album Description. A 1912 neighborhood meetinghouse has been converted … But Jason’s romantic adventures prove harder to shake off than he anticipates, when it transpires that his secret lover is none other than Medea, Queen of Colchis. [5] Since 2002, she has been Music Director of the Chicago ensemble Music of the Baroque. This research greatly increased his interest in Gregorian chant. Indeed, she comes out of this as the one moulding the story to her own ends. She is splendid as she calls upon the fiends of hell, wreathed in smoke and wielding a sorcerer’s staff; ferocious as she encounters her rival; she only feels unconvincing at the end, when the laws of opera require her to forgive and make peace. [6] On 18 March 2011, she conducted the world première of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Kommilitonen! (Opéra Royal de Versailles, 9 March 2018). 64; "A Midsummer Night's Dream" incidental music), Britten (Les Illuminations; Nocturne; Sinfonietta). II. In addition to my wife Amy Dubinsky, many dear friends and collegues helped me proofreading my writing: Diana Russo, Mary Ella Savarino, Kathryne Fenton, Heather Foote, Stevie Gaza, Katheryn Lawson, et al. Jason, astonished, accepts her offer of magical assistance in his quest for the fleece – for Medea is, of course, a sorceress – and then the two lovers plan to scarper, leaving behind Medea’s elderly husband Aegeus, King of Athens (the father of Theseus, for those whom enjoy keeping their myth-cycles straight). Hammarström had the best role, as Medea, and she brought power and intensity to her singing. The setting was vaguely 1930s with modern commando uniforms for the Argonauts, while the gods were resplendent in proper Baroque costumes to differentiate their reality from the mess of adultery and cowardice all around them. Sit back and marvel. She holds a number of honorary degrees from several universities, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music and has been the artistic director of opera at the Royal Academy of Music since 2009. Ercole Amante was commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin for the wedding of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain in 1660. Of course, Oreste returns with the unfortunate news that Jason has impregnated another woman and scarpered with her. Francisco Cervelli (born March 6, 1986) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher.He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, and Miami Marlins from 2008 through 2020.. The male singers weren’t quite as strong as the women. She later described the meeting: "I was beside myself with the prospect of hearing them perform. Cavalli - The Requiem is the composer's last sacred work, … A great treat. [2] She made her professional debut at the Wexford Festival in 1975 with the first modern performance of Eritrea[3] and joined Glyndebourne in 1979. For her part, she scolds him for womanising his way around her kingdom, teasingly claims that her elderly maid Delpha (Dominique Visse) is his beloved, and then finally outs herself. [8], In September 2005, Macmillan published Glover's book Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. During the 1980s, Glover regularly broadcast on BBC Television including hosting the television series Orchestra with Jane Glover in 1983 and Mozart – His Life with Music in 1985. So please read this as a high 3.5. He might be thoroughly enjoying himself but, as his fellow Argonaut Hercules tells him, it’s time to move on. It must have been rather like a reunion for them all. Here is him singing Massanet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adqyQ9AEBms. Unless of course you subscribe to the theory that Cavalli wrote Pur ti miro, in which case the best of Monteverdi *is* Cavalli? But Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) was right there with the Master in time and place. Vocally, however, Sabadus was very slightly off colour when we saw him. Her recordings include Cavalli (La Calisto - extracts), Handel (Messiah; Water Music suites 1-3), Haydn (Symphonies 80, 87, 89, 101, 102, 103, 104; 'Harmoniemesse' and 'Schöpfungsmesse', Mozart (Symphonies 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41; Divertimenti K. 136-K. 138 & Serenade K. 525, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"; Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments K361; Requiem K.626), Mendelssohn (Violin Concerto Op. They returned to Penang after marrying. He and his wife Paula have two wonderful children and one glorious granddaughter. at the Academy. After having killed his first wife, he had to perform twelve tasks. Thursday April 9, 2020: New England Conservatory Opera presents La Calisto, Francesco Cavalli's early Baroque opera. Change ). Oh goodness, they’ve just started “O sole mio”. But if you also remembered a 340-year-old opera by Francesco Cavalli, called Hercules in Love, go to the head of the class. The early baroque period opera, La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli, was based on the myth of Callisto from Ovid's Metamorphoses.The opera premiered on Nov. 28, 1651, at the Teatro Sant 'Apollinare Public Opera House in Venice, Italy. As Jason’s two lovers meet head on, things are about to get messy. Glover was a BBC governor from 1990 to 1995. Thus he received a PhD in Music History from Princeton University in 1980, with a dissertation entitled “The Autograph Manuscripts of Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676),” about the life work of an early opera composer. In 2018, her Handel in London: The Making of a Genius, was published, which charts the composer's work as "immigrant musical genius, composer, performer and impresario", placed in the social and political context of London of the time.[9]. Ercole amante (Hercules in Love, French: Hercule amoureux) is an opera in a prologue and five acts by Francesco Cavalli.Its Italian libretto is by Francesco Buti [], based on Sophocles' The Trachiniae and on the ninth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.The first performance took place on 7 February 1662 in the Salle des Machines of the Tuileries in Paris. The things we do for art. I’ll be eagerly keeping my eye on Versailles’s programming in the seasons to come, hoping we might have some more Baroque to look forward to. Career Performances are July 8, 10, 14 and 16, all at 8PM. I should say that I agonised about the rating for this. Although, I’ve just gotten to them singing “My Way”. ( Log Out /  The eponymous Jason sprawls in a love-fuelled stupor and sings for five minutes about how glorious sex is, but he just can’t manage any more just at the moment and longs only to ‘die’ (ahem) in the lap of his mistress. As ever, Cavalli’s women are particularly strong: I feel compelled to note that both Medea and Hypsipyle are queens in their own right. The third portion of the limelight went to Flores’s Alinda, the classic cheeky maid who sings about how wonderful it is to be able to pick up men and drop them as you please (this Alinda, in a comic touch, was heavily pregnant). (Identical to the VE52 text, except for ‘empier’) Christine Jeanneret, in her essay ‘Maria Cavalli: In the Shadow of Francesco’4 identifies the handwriting of this addition as that of Maria Cavalli, Francesco’s wife. But Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) was right there with the Master in time and place. It seems that Visse is now the pantomime dame of Baroque operas: if you need a comedy nurse, he’s your man. It was unfortunate that Giménez sang the whole thing as though it were Puccini, with a pronounced bel canto delivery that feels completely foreign in the context of Cavalli’s more austere music. He doesn’t seem to take himself anywhere near as seriously as many other countertenors do, and that’s refreshing, because he’s quite happy to play the buffoon if that’s what it takes. 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His Delizie contenti was predictably gorgeous, but I’d like to hear him record it one day when he’s firing on all cylinders. sorry to hear that. The dauntless Argonauts came to the shores of Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece, but their heroism has been put on hold. It’s always great to have an excuse to go to Versailles and spend a few hours in this jewel of an opera house, and it was also wonderful to tick off one more Cavalli opera. As Medea’s rival, Aspromonte was a loyal innocent, the purity of her voice backing up her character. Russell exemplifies the “can do” spirit of Haymarket Opera Company. I’d spotted something odd in the first half, which I couldn’t identify exactly – my ear knew that it wasn’t perfect but I don’t have the music vocabulary to understand what I was hearing. Well, my appetite is well and truly whetted. Did I mention that Jason has also given each woman twin sons? Jason (Valer Sabadus) and his mystery lady Medea (Kristina Hammarström). 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