Patricia Petibon, reine en terre Haendélienne

By Nicolas Tavernier, 15 June 2016

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“La tragédienne est exubérante mais toujours sincère”

Reviewed at Château de Versailles: Royal Opera House, Versailles on 14 June 2016

Works by Handel

Patricia Petibon, Soprano

Venice Baroque Orchestra

Andrea Marcon, Conductor

Venice Baroque Orchestra dazzles New York on a Day of Champions

Linda Holt, 10th July

The Venice Baroque Orchestra offers a fast-paced, intense array of 18th-century selections in New York City.

*****

Cloudbursts and Venetian sunshine from Avi Avital

Mark Pullinger, 22nd December

The day after the Winter Solstice and Wigmore Hall was bathed in an Italian summer trip to La Serenissima.

*****

Magdalena Kožená and the VBO at Enescu Festival

Aksel Tollåli, 3rd September

Delayed by torrential rain, the Enescu Festival's all-Handel concert took a while to get going, but was an utter delight once it did.

***11

Simply ravishing: Juditha triumphans

Dominic Lowe, 2nd November

It's not his most commonly performed work, but with a crack team of vocal (and orchestral) soloists, Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra gave a fabulous account of Vivaldi's only surviving oratorio.

****1

Italienischer Wind in Kölner Philharmonie

Huda Knobloch, 11th October

Temperamentvolle Stürme und emotionsgeladene Klänge: die Mandoline braucht sich nicht zu verstecken.

****1

Arienfeuerwerk der Extreme

Jens Klier, 4th October

Franco Fagioli zündete in Essen ein italienisches Barockfeuerwerk.

****1

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Nicolas Tavernier

Historien de formation, Nicolas est passionné de musique classique depuis l'enfance, avec un attrait particulier pour les univers du chant baroque et du lied allemand.