Laurence Cummings leads the FestspielOrchester Göttingen, the NDR Choir and an exemplary set of soloists led by in a definitive performance of Handel's oratorio.
The Nederlandse Reisopera celebrates Ariadne auf Naxos’centennial with a superb new production directed by Laurence Dale which looks as laving as it is pleasing to the ear.
Pour ce rare objet musical qu'est Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse de Bodin de Boismortier, Hervé Niquet retrouvait à Versailles ses complices déjantés Shirley et Dino après un King Arthur mémorable. Encore une fois le chef d'orchestre s'est lâché dans l'humour décalé, mais la musique et le chant, servis par des chanteurs/acteurs au diapason, ne sont jamais sacrifiés.
Englishman Laurence Dale’s Göttingen Festival production of Handel’s Agrippina, now presented in the second Brisbane Baroque Festival, is based on the political void between appearance and reality.
Opera Atelier espouses truth in advertising: The Magic Flute, they tell us, is a Singspiel in two acts. You can call it a play with songs, a musical comedy, even an operetta, but hardly an opera in the traditional sense. Call it what you will, this is Opera Atelier’s fourth production of the work in the last 22 years.
