TENET: Portraits in Song, Renaissance Italy from Ciconia to Petrucci

Par Amanda Keil, 06 février 2012

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Critique faite à Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, New York, le 3 février 2012

Tenet Ensemble

Jolle Greenleaf, Soprano

Ryland Angel, Contre-ténor

Aaron Sheehan, Ténor

Jesse Blumberg, Baryton

Grant Herreid, Plectrum Lute

Scott Metcalfe, Vielle, Harpe

Debra Nagy, Flûte à bec, Harpe, Douçaine

A fine Monteverdi Vespers from the Tenet Ensemble

Robert Levine, 18th June

The four-year old Green Mountain Project have made somewhat of a specialty of Monteverdi's Vespers, and their recent performance at New York city’s Church of St Jean Baptiste proved again that they are worthy of their chosen name.

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Tuvan throat singing and holy minimalism at collected stories: “spirit”

Rebecca Lentjes, 23rd April

Employing khoomei, a style of singing that remains “a mystery to Western science”, each of the four performers was capable of producing up to four notes at once.

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Niobe, Regina di Tebe à Toulouse

Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 29th January

Le Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra et pas moins de neufs chanteurs issus de différents horizons étaient réunis pour l’exécution du septième opéra en trois actes du compositeur italien Agostino Steffani, Niobe, Regina di Tebe.

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Boston Baroque stages Iphigénie en Tauride

Kevin Wells, 23rd April

Soula Parassidis gives a fierce vocal and dramatic performance astutely calibrated to the unusual venue.

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Flawed Fellow Travelers at Boston Lyric Opera

Kevin Wells, 13th November

An opening night of Gregory Spears' opera is more like a dress rehearsal in Boston.

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Attend The Tale of Burke and Hare

Kevin Wells, 8th November

Despite its title, the victims dominate Julian Grant and Mark Campbell’s caustic one-act opera.

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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.