Grand cru à Beaune avec Eva Zaïcik, Matheus et les Arts Florissants

Eva Zaïcik et Les Épopées au Festival de Beaune

L'Olimpiade de l'Ensemble Matheus au Festival de Beaune

William Christie et les Arts Florissants au Festival de Beaune

By Beate Langenbruch, 25 July 2023

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“Quel spectacle ! On chante par cœur, on joue, on danse, on rit, on souffre, on s’amuse”

Reviewed at Basilique Notre-Dame, Beaune on 23 July 2023

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (concert performance)

William Christie, Conductor

Les Arts Florissants

Maud Gnidzaz, 1st Enchantress

Virginie Thomas, 2nd Woman, 2nd Enchantress

Ana Vieira Leite, Belinda

Helen Charlston, Dido

Renato Dolcini, Sorceress, Aeneas

Jacob Lawrence, Sailor

Michael Loughlin Smith, Spirit

Bastien Rimondi, Tenor

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Reviewed at Hospices de Beaune: Grande Salle des Pôvres, Beaune on 21 July 2023

Programme to include:

Strozzi, L'Eraclito amoroso

Rossi, Passacaille del Seigr Louigi

Sances, Usurpator tiranno

Piccinini, Aria di Sarabanda in varie partite

Rognoni, Passaggi: Ancor che col partire, for violin

Monteverdi, Lamento d'Arianna

Merula, Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna

Rossi, Toccata Settima

Eva Zaïcik, Mezzo-soprano

Orchestre Les Épopées

Stéphane Fuget, Conductor

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Reviewed at Hospices de Beaune: Cour, Beaune on 22 July 2023

Vivaldi, L'Olimpiade, RV 725 (concert performance)

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Conductor

Ensemble Matheus

Rémy Brès-Feuillet, Megacle

Ana Maria Labin, Aminta

Jean-Jacques L'Anthoën, Clistene

Matthieu Toulouse, Alcandro

Fernando Escalona, Licida

The ghost of Maria Callas: Greek National Opera's Medea at Epidaurus

Anna Bogdanova, 20th June

To rebuild Maria Callas's 1961 Medea is to invite the cruellest comparisons in opera. For most of a single night at Epidaurus, Greek National Opera withstands it, but then comes the final act...

****1

10 Days in a Madhouse receives Canadian premiere

John Gilks, 16th June

10 Days in a Madhouse is a musically and dramatically excellent but disturbing insight into conditions in a women’s asylum brought to life in Toronto by an excellent production.

****1

Galați Cenerentola lights up the Bucharest stage

Peter Quantrill, 15th June

First class young voices and bewitchingly stylised designs shine through the murk at the Bucharest Opera Festival.

****1

L’Orfeo, the world’s first great opera, premieres at Glyndebourne

Roy Westbrook, 14th June

One element of the Orpheus myth is about creativity, so at Glyndebourne, William Kentridge sets Monteverdi’s opera in an artist's studio,

****1

Darkness without passion: Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 12th June

Despite Michieletto's visual gloom, the evening is redeemed by Myung-whun Chung’s masterful conducting and a cast that brings conviction to a production that rarely trusts the opera’s own dramatic power.

**111

Aldeburgh Festival dives in at the deep end with Pelléas et Mélisande

Eleanor Knight, 12th June

Rory Kinnear directs a minimally semi-staged performance of Debussy's problematic opera at Snape Maltings, but Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish SO provide the detail.

****1

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Beate Langenbruch

Incapable de départager musique et littérature dans sa vie, Beate a décidé de se consacrer passionnément aux deux. La maîtresse de conférences en littérature française (Moyen Âge) et soprano allemande parcourt le monde pour ses recherches comme pour chanter, avec son trio de musique de chambre, en soliste ou en choeur. Ses années d'expériences instrumentales (piano, flûte, guitare) n'ont que très modérément entravé son amour inconditionnel de la voix et du répertoire choral en particulier.

Grand cru 2023 à Beaune avec Eva Zaïcik, l’Ensemble Matheus et les Arts Florissants