Artiste: Sara Jean Tosetti

Handel’s Xerxes (1738) was part of this year’s “home and homeland” season at Glimmerglass Festival.

In Los Angeles, Patricia Racette was an impressive Salome but the orchestra was, as it should, the main character.

Today, Vivaldi’s operas remain rarities. The American première of Cato in Utica at the Glimmerglass Festival (located an hour south of Utica, NY) attempted to elevate this little explored corner of Baroque repertoire.