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Vivaldi’s pasticcio Bajazet given an extravagant staging
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Federico Maria Sardelli leads a great cast of specialists in a new production by Fabio Ceresa, perfectly attuned to the Baroque style.
Excellent singing in Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in Halle
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The Halle Handel Festival brings wonderful Baroque vocalising and playing in this somewhat obscure offering from Handel's early days in Italy.
Cavalli's Il Xerse as farce in Martina Franca
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Leo Muscato directs an operatic rarity at the Festival Valle d'Itria, with Federico Maria Sardelli leading Orchestra Barocca Modo Antiquo.
Vivaldi's Farnace finally reaches Ferrara
Vivaldi's opera Farnace presents a basically insoluble problem: how to produce a more or less complete version. While this is not solved by the Ferrara production, it is strong musically and enjoyable.
Flailing capes, plumed helmets, Baroque machinery: Pizzi's Rinaldo!
Federico Maria Sardelli conducts an historic production of Handel’s first Italian opera for London with energy and Baroque spirit. Teresa Iervolino takes the leading role in a convincing cast.
Porpora's L'Angelica is a love triangle in Martina Franca
A masterpiece from one of the Neapolitan School's most important protagonists, this rarely heard opera is musically rewarding but confusingly staged.