Franco Fagioli rallume le volcan napolitain à Gaveau

By Philippe Ramin, 27 January 2022

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“une déclaration de guerre aux détracteurs du chanteur parfois critiqué pour son goût maniéré”

Reviewed at Salle Gaveau, Paris on 24 January 2022

Works by Purcell

Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in D major, RV 208 "Il Grosso Mogul"

Vinci, Gismondo, re di Polonia: Quell’usignolo ch’è innamorato

Handel, Oreste, HWV A11: Agitato da fiere tempeste

Vinci, Artaserse: Vo solcando un mar crudele

Vinci, Siroe: Gelido in ogni vena

Handel, Ariodante, HWV33: Scherza infida

Porpora, Polifemo: “Alto Giove”

Handel, Ariodante, HWV33: Dopo notte

Handel, Il pastor fido, HWV 8: Sento brillar nel sen

Franco Fagioli, Countertenor

Gabetta Consort

Andrés Gabetta, Violin

Franco Fagioli and Versailles bring rare bel canto to New York

Robert Levine, 23rd July

The Argentinian countertenor brings a program of music performed by famed castrato Giovanni Battista Velluti to L'Alliance.

****1

Tales of woe: Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo at Versailles

Dominic Lowe, 18th October

Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo won the favour of no less than Napoleon I himself and a new production at the Opéra Royal offers an appropriately regal setting in which to see Gilles Rico's new production of this once famous opera.

****1

Devieilhe's Cleopatra reigns in Michieletto's muddled Egyptology show

Mark Pullinger, 11th May

The French soprano delivers an A-list performance as the Egyptian queen, donning a variety of Hollywood guises at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

***11

Leonardo Vinci's music revived by Franco Fagioli at Bayreuth Baroque

Lorenzo Fiorito, 11th September

The Argentinian, one of the greatest countertenors of his generation, is today's specialist in the repertoire of Neapolitan composer Leonardo Vinci.

*****

Political power games in Kosky's Agrippina at Covent Garden

Mark Pullinger, 23rd September

An over-directed, but vivid staging demonstrating political rise and fall in Ancient Rome transported to the present day.

***11

Handel's Agrippina sparkles at the Barbican

David Karlin, 31st May

The biting wit of Vincenzo Grimani's libretto is well served by some knockout arias and excellent performances from a strong cast and the matchless Il pomo d'oro.

****1

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Philippe Ramin

Claveciniste formé auprès de Béatrice Berstel et Christophe Rousset à Paris et de Jesper Christensen à la Schola Cantorum de Bâle, Philippe Ramin a été accompagnateur au Centre de Musique Ancienne de Tours et au Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, tout en jouant avec diverses formations de la scène baroque : « l’Eclat des Muses », l’ensemble « XVIII-21 le Baroque Nomade » ainsi que la Maîtrise de Radio France avec Sofi Jeannin. Critique musical à Répertoire puis à Diapason depuis 2000, il enseigne actuellement le clavecin, la basse continue et la musique de chambre au Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental d’Évry.