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SchwetzingenIl Gusto Barocco performs L’OrfeoNew production
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318
Jörg Halubek; Markus Bothe; Nationaltheater Mannheim; Robert Schweer; Justina Klimczyk; Damian Chmielarz; Il Gusto Barocco
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The early flowering of opera: a fragrant L’Orfeo at Schwetzingen
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Markus Bothe’s Botticelli-inspired production fuses tableau vivant aesthetics with Jörg Halubek’s surgical musical precision, offering a peerless, vivid tribute to the fragrant dawn of opera.
A triumphant Pierre de Médicis makes a case for Poniatowski
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Poniatowski is now a mere footnote in musical history, but in his day was a composer of serious repute, as shown in this concert performance at the Rossini in Wildbad festival.
A dark and disturbing Rigoletto from WNO at the Mayflower
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Fine performances in a punchy new production that coats this tragic opera in a large dollop of debauchery.
