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Giovanni Antonini leads a splendid orchestral performance of Cesti’s masterpiece, featuring an outstanding cast headlined by Carlo Vistoli.

Ravishing music and performances, a crazy G&S plot, but physicality that tends to distract in Constantine Costi's production.

Opera director András Almási-Toth’s whimsical updating of an early Baroque opera by Antonio Cesti switches the composer’s L'Orontea from 1656 to 2016.

Every early music festival these days needs one or more star countertenors in their programme. At this year’s Müpa Budapest’s Régizene Fesztival, Valer Barna-Sabadus was featured together with homegrown soprano Emöke Bárath.

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

L'Orontea was premièred as turbulent Carneval entertainment in 1656. Now it is experiencing a fast-paced new staging as modern opera gag at Frankfurt Opera.

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.

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.

In sporting parlance, the "dream-team" of countertenor Iestyn Davies and Richard Egarr at the harpsichord came together last night for a Wigmore Hall concert held to mark the 10 years directorship of John Gilhooly, and was the perfect representation of his decade at the helm: singer + harpsichord, immaculate programming, consummate musicianship, scholarship, unheard-of treasures, blended with a da

Die amerikanische Mezzosopranistin tourt mit ihrem Programm My Favourite Things durch Europa und trat auch in beim Grafenegg Festival auf.

Tras varias cancelaciones, se presentó por fin la propuesta de Joyce DiDonato e Il pomo d'oro, My favourite things, un magnífico y personal proyecto que invita a la calma a la vez que repasa las características más relevantes de la música barroca.

C’est en 2002 que Philippe Jaroussky vient chanter pour la première fois au Festival de Froville : il n’a alors que 24 ans et sa carrière débute. Ce n’est plus le même Philippe Jaroussky que l’on retrouve à Froville en 2016, dont la maturité et la maîtrise vocale se sont affirmées durant ces années.