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Bad KissingenCecilia Bartoli – Orfeo

Kissinger Sommer
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Gianluca Capuano; Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco; Il Canto di Orfeo; Mélissa Petit; Cecilia Bartoli

LucerneOrfeo ed EuridiceConcert performance

© Monika Rittershaus
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Gianluca Capuano; Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco; Il Canto di Orfeo; Mélissa Petit

AmsterdamDowland 400

© Julien Benhamou
Dowland
Thomas Dunford; Ensemble Jupiter; Mélissa Petit

ParisCome Again

© Julien Benhamou
Dowland
Thomas Dunford; Ensemble Jupiter; Mélissa Petit; Hugh Cutting

DijonRiccardo Primo - HandelConcert performance

Les Arts Florissants
Handel: Riccardo Primo, re d'Inghilterra
Paul Agnew; Teatro Real; Les Arts Florissants; Mélissa Petit; Paul Figuier

ParisLes Arts Florissants - Paul Agnew

© Vincent Pontet
Handel: Riccardo Primo, re d'Inghilterra
Paul Agnew; Mélissa Petit; Hugh Cutting; Juliette Mey; Andreas Wolf
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A birthday reimagining of Il viaggio a Reims in Salzburg

Cecilia Bartoli (Corinna) and ensemble © SF | Monika Rittershaus
In Barrie Kosky’s hyperactive staging, Il viaggio a Reims becomes a birthday tribute to Cecilia Bartoli complete with rewritten text, extravagant costumes, sexual escapades and a giant cake. 
***11
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A soul-stirring Orfeo ed Euridice as Bartoli commands Cremona’s stage

Cecilia Bartoli and Mélissa Petit © Lorenzo Gorini

Cecilia Bartoli and Gianluca Capuano lead a superb performance of Orfeo ed Euridice, in semi-staged form, as a prologue to the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona. 

*****
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A Whitsun Festival crowned by Rossini’s magic in Salzburg

Sergey Romanovsky and Cecilia Bartoli © © SF/Marco Borrelli

An exciting gala concert led by Cecilia Bartoli closed the Whitsun Festival in Salzburg, under the expert baton of Gianluca Capuano.

****1
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Love in time of the drug wars: a contemporary Tancredi at Bregenz

Mélissa Petit (Amenaide) and Anna Goryachova (Tancredi) © Bregenzer Festspiele | Karl Forster
Anna Goryachova and Mélissa Petit shine as doomed lovers Tancredi and Amenaide, while Jan Philipp Gloger's contemporary setting has much to offer, but doesn't quite nail the landing.
***11
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Une Folle journée: Mozart-Da Ponte pasticcio at the Whitsun Festival

Mattia Olivieri and Cecilia Bartoli © SF | Marco Borelli

Cecilia Bartoli leads a stellar cast in a silly, but fun divertissement where Mozart’s music shines supreme.

****1
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A Haydn rarity: L’anima del filosofo at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Rolando Villazón © Salzburger Festspiele | Marco Borrelli
The festival presents an illuminist take on the myth of Orpheus in a convincing concert performance of a rarely performed opera by Haydn. 
****1
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