Bring on the Baroque: The Bristol Baroque Festival begins at St George's with Bach's St John Passion

Von David Fay, 11 März 2013

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: St George's Bristol, Bristol, am 8 März 2013

Bach, Johannes-Passion, BWV245

La Nuova Musica

David Bates, Direktor

Simon Wall, Evangelist

Thomas Herford, Tenor

James Arthur, Christus

Timothy Dickinson, Bass

Augusta Hebbert, Sopran

Ciara Hendrick, Mezzosopran

Myth meets Shoreditch: a rewarding Handel double bill

Dominic Lowe, 29th March

Part of this year's London Handel Festival, Apollo e Dafne and The Choice of Hercules are transported to the stage in a captivating production that blends music and dance.

****1

L’incoronazione di Poppea vividly brought to life at the Grange

David Truslove, 7th June

Terrific music making with a light directorial touch brings mixed results to Monteverdi's 1643 masterpiece.

***11

Finely cast Orlando from La Nuova Musica

Nahoko Gotoh, 1st February

Handel’s opera Orlando is famous for the great mad scene at the end of Act 2. Specifically written for the celebrated castrato Senesino, it’s an emotionally powerful ten-minute monologue.

****1

La Calisto: Sublime singing

Olivia Bell, 28th November

Despite the beautiful sensitivity of La Nuova Musica, coupled with some truly sublime singing, the silliness of Cavalli’s opera is sometimes overplayed in this semi-staged production; less is, sometimes, more.

****1

A dusty curio: Handel's Berenice, regina d'Egitto

Charlotte Valori, 17th March

A strong cast and fine playing from La Nuova Musica gives Handel's Berenice a reasonably fair outing, but its original plot weaknesses constrain this opera from being anything more than a curio for the Handel connoisseur.

***11

Friars just wanna have fun: Cesti's Orontea

Charlotte Valori, 14th December

A very naughty translation and some fine singing make for a delightfully comic evening of Cesti's recently rediscovered Orontea at Wigmore Hall.

****1

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David Fay

David studied Music and French at Bristol University and is now undertaking a PhD in Musicology. His specialism is religious music but his musical passions range from Alkaline Trio to Zadok the Priest.