Orchester und Solistin garantieren durch Expression und Artikulation für eine wunderbare Unterhaltung mit viel frischem Wind. Lediglich mit originärer Aufstellung wären noch mehr Effekte herausgekommen.
Am Dienstag vor genau 467 Jahren unterzeichnete Moritz von Sachsen das Gründungsdokument der heutigen Staatskapelle. Aus diesem Anlass präsentierten Mitglieder des Orchesters am Dienstagabend vier Werke aus Tradition und Moderne.
Im Amsterdamer Concertgebouw beweist Cecilia Bartolis Vorstellung von längst vergessenen, barocken Arien für die Kaiserinnen Russlands, dass ihre Kunstfertigkeit auch in diesem Repertoire unerreicht ist.
Sous la direction d'Antonio Florio, la Cappella Neapolitana propose à Clermont un mémorable Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra du confidentiel Johann Adolf Hasse, conjuguant coloris du sud et hiératisme des écoles baroques du Nord.
Vivica Genaux enjoys huge success in a Melbourne concert of Baroque delights, the first venture of Sydney's Pinchgut Opera Company outside its home turf.
Perhaps Pinchgut Opera's finest production to date, a brave presentation of a classic Baroque opera, little heard in Australia apart from Handel, benefits from the star presence of Vivca Genaux in splendid form.
In a pasticcio of Hasse’s Artaserse and Ezio, director Balázs Kovalik and the students of the Theaterakademie August Everding stage the life of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth.
Julia Lezhneva partners with Richard Tognetti and the ACO to deliver a thrilling program of Baroque arias, in which her vocal agility and expressivity are on full display.
Themed around legendary African queens Dido and Cleopatra, Prohaska’s recital with the virtuosi of Il Giardino Armonico could serve as a template for the ideal Baroque programme.
The enterprising forces of Opera Settecento brought the nearly forgotten music of Hasse's Demetrio to the Cadogan Hall, and in the process showed that this composer can easily match his more popular contemporaries.
Heureux de retrouver la chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Marc Minkowski, les Musiciens du Louvre accompagnent magistralement Anna Devin, Soprano et Teresa Iervolino, Mezzo-soprano, dans le Stabat Mater de Pergolèse.
Samedi 24 janvier, Max Emanuel Cenčić chantait à Versailles son programme "Rokoko" entièrement consacré aux airs de Hasse, avec la complicité de George Petrou et son ensemble Armonia Atenea. Une très belle soirée.
Grand succès de Hasse, le rival de Haendel, l’opéra Siroe, Re di Persia est tiré cet automne de l’oubli par Max Emanuel Cenčić dans le rôle-titre et à la mise en scène. Un spectacle éblouissant.
It is perhaps inevitable that a Greek Baroque ensemble on their first visit to the Proms would want to showcase a programme with a link to their ancient heritage.
It was one of those extraordinary solo performance that left no-one in the audience indifferent. An unmissable event for all Baroque lovers in Paris: the Argentinian countertenor Franco Fagioli in town for a recital at the Salle Gaveau. The concert was part of a tour in support of his new CD Arias for Caffarelli.
It has been five years since mezzo Joyce DiDonato last sang in Amsterdam. In those five years, she won an Emmy Award, headed the cast of countless productions at the Met and Covent Garden, and has been recognized as one of the greatest opera singers of our time by the press and aficionados alike.
Had you been travelling, in the mid 18th century, around the crowned courts of middle Europe, there would have been little debate as to who was the most celebrated opera composer and ensemble: Johann Adolph Hasse and his company at the Saxon court of Dresden.
When on Sunday afternoon Joyce DiDonato came onstage at Carnegie Hall, the savvy New York audience gave her a truly royal reception by welcoming her with a long ovation. Such a reaction from the audience was hardly surprising.
It was a touching moment when an overwhelmed Joyce DiDonato re-entered the stage after her fourth encore and covered her face with her hands for a few moments, not sure what to do in response to the unceasing applause.
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783) was a renowned opera composer of the eighteenth century. As the Kapellmeister at the Dresden court from 1731 to 1763, he composed a large number of Italian operas and his fame spread all over Europe. His wife, the equally famous mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni (who also sang in Handel’s operas in London), starred in many of his operas.
