Danielle de Niese launches "Beauty of the Baroque"

Von Amanda Keil, 25 Januar 2012

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: (Le) Poisson Rouge, New York City, am 23 Januar 2012

Händel, Samson, HWV 57: Let the bright Seraphim

Händel, Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40: Ombra mai fù

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Z626: Didos Klage "When I am laid in earth"

Monteverdi, Quel sguardo sdegnosetto

Werke von Dowland

Händel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Da tempeste

Danielle de Niese, Sopran

Commedia dell'arte heute: Don Pasquale an der Staatsoper Hamburg

Rainer Zerbst, 29th May

David Bösch gelingt es, die Typenkomödie bruchlos zu einem Drama von heute zu gestalten.

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Macht ist sexy

Snapdragon, 22nd March

Robert Carsen inszeniert Händels Agrippina als köstliche Sex & Crime-Komödie mit Tempo, Witz und italienischer Eleganz.

*****

ENO’s Mahagonny: biting, bleak, brilliantly executed satire

David Karlin, 16th February

Never has Brecht and Weill’s satire on the inhumanity of man to man been render with such utter darkness; Simon O’Neill heads up a superb cast.

*****

Danielle de Niese makes Carmen debut in a colourful new Sydney staging

Sandra Bowdler, 10th July

Danielle de Niese's assumes the title role at the Sydney Opera House, leading an impressive cast with an interesting approach to characterisation with a somewhat over the top blingy setting.

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Merriment aplenty in Cal McCrystal's Merry Widow at Glyndebourne

Dominic Lowe, 9th June

Glyndebourne's new production of Lehár's greatest work is interpreted with his customary flair and fun by Cal McCrystal.

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To the Underworld and back: Thomas Adès conducts the Boston Symphony

Kevin Wells, 24th March

Thomas Adès conducts music from his own ballet score to The Dante Project and Stravinsky's Persephone.

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Amanda Keil

Amanda Keil is a native New Yorker who sings, teaches, writes about music and fundraises for the arts. Her broad musical interests have led her to perform music from ancient to modern times, and she is the founder of Musica Nuova, which stages Baroque songs in modern settings. She blogs at thousandfoldecho.