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Una noche memorable para la ópera barroca: Tamerlano por Il Pomo d'Oro

By Pablo FitzGerald Cerdán, 18 October 2016
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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 16 October 2016
Programme
Handel, Tamerlano
Performers
Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor
Dilyara Idrisova, Asteria
Max Emanuel Cenčić, Andronico
Romina Basso, Irene
Xavier Sabata, Tamerlano
Juan Sancho, Bajazet
Pavel Kudinov, Leone
Il Pomo d'Oro
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Pablo FitzGerald Cerdán
Pablo FitzGerald Cerdán
Pablo FitzGerald Cerdán (Madrid, 1994) estudió el grado medio de guitarra clásica en el Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Arturo Soria, y actualmente estudia el grado medio de Instrumentos de Cuerda Pulsada del Renacimiento y el Barroco en el mismo centro, además de cursar, desde 2012, el Grado en Musicología en la Universidad Complutense. Como intérprete de música antigua, ha realizado cursos de perfeccionamiento y forma parte de grupos especializados en la interpretación de este repertorio, además de presentarse como solista. Como musicólogo ha ofrecido conferencias. Colabora también con la revista Síneris y es cofundador del blog 'Lírica para todos'.