BarokOpera Amsterdam premières a hilarious romp through history with Henry Purcell

By Kristen Huebner, 07 February 2013

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Reviewed at De Flint, Amersfoort on 6 February 2013

Unknown, Purcell Gala II: William and Mary

Barok Opera Amsterdam

Frédérique Chauvet, Conductor

Sybrand van der Werf, Director

Wendy Roobol, Soprano

Gunther Vandeven, Countertenor

Mattijs Hoogendijk, Tenor

Pieter Hendriks, Bass

What happened after Dido died? BarokOpera Amsterdam’s Dido and Aeneas

Sanne Thierens, 16th March

BarokOpera Amsterdam tells Virigil’s tale of Aeneas’ travels through the underworld in an extended version of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

****1

Regents Opera’s Salome lands a knockout punch at York Hall

Mark Pullinger, 10th April

Mark Ravenhill directs a brutal, bloody Salome for Regents Opera at the spiritual home of British boxing, York Hall.

****1

Handel's Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Pia Maltri, 7th April

Robert Carsen's staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707.

****1

Innocence: Saariaho’s final opera receives New York premiere

Kurt Gottschalk, 6th April

At the Metropolitan Opera, Innocence proves a gripping and perhaps divisive piece which feels real because it is a reflection of our reality, with no realistic hope of finding peace.

*****

Parsifal without the hocus-pocus in Lower Bavaria

Peter Quantrill, 4th April

A colourful, revue-style production dispels the clouds of mystique surrounding Wagner's last opera.

****1

Bless this house: a Passiontide Parsifal in Erl

Peter Quantrill, 2nd April

Alpine mountains and streams set the scene for an illuminating production of Wagner's 'play to consecrate a stage'.

****1

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Kristen Huebner

Originally from the USA, Kristen Huebner now bases her musical life in the Netherlands and Europe. She currently tours with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir under the direction of Ton Koopman and has collaborated alongside members of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under Frans Brüggen. Her work with the Paris-based Ensemble Diderot, has led to numerous appearances at festivals such as Musikfest Erzgebirge and the Bach Biennale Weimar. Kristen’s research on Empfindsamkeit in the chamber music of C.P.E. Bach has been adapted into an article for Music & Practice, published in 2015. Kristen joined the teaching team at the 2022 Zomer Academie Zutphen, where she led the traverso masterclass.