At the Concertgebouw, Czarina Cecilia Bartoli reigns

By Nicolas Nguyen, 07 November 2014

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Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 5 November 2014

Raupach, Altsesta: March

Raupach, Altsesta: Idu na smert

Raupach, Siroe, re di Persia: O placido il mare

Araia, La forza dell'amore e dell'odio: Vado a morir

Araia, Seleuco: Pastor che a notte ombrosa

Araia, Sinfonia in D Major for strings

dall'Oglio, 'De miei figli' from the prologue to 'La clemenza di Tito' by Adolf Hasse

dall'Oglio, Sinfonia In A major

Veracini, Overture no. 6 in B flat major

Porpora, Germanico in Germania: Overture

Manfredini, Carlo Magno: Non turbar que' vaghi rai

Hasse, La clemenza di Tito: Overture

Hasse, La clemenza di Tito: Se mai senti spirarti sul volto

Hasse, La clemenza di Tito: Vò disperato a morte

Porpora, Adelaide: Nobil onda

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-soprano

I Barocchisti

Diego Fasolis, Conductor

An online Beethovenathon: all nine symphonies across Europe in one day

Alexander Hall, 6th June

An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

***11

A fabulous, truly Baroque Orlando furioso

Lorenzo Fiorito, 31st July

This production of Antonio Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso showed the audience what a Baroque opera is.

****1

“Hell hath no fury": Cecilia Bartoli's Norma

Dominic Lowe, 5th August

In one of Bartoli's rare appearances on stage in the UK, she gave an utterly compelling performance as opera's ultimate woman scorned.

****1

Stabat Mater at the Concertgebouw

Nicolas Nguyen, 19th January

Under the baton of Diego Fasolis, French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva gave a most memorable and moving performance of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the Concertgebouw.

*****

Bach in Gstaad: Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti

David Karlin, 2nd February

Winter in the Swiss Alps: freezing temperatures and snow outside. A modest seventeenth-century church of elegant proportions, painted plasterwork and wood panelling. A dozen crack musicians, specialists in baroque music.

****1

Robert Carsen au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées : voir Orfeo et mourir

Tristan Labouret, 22nd May

Le metteur en scène canadien donne une version épurée et poignante de l'opéra de Gluck. Philippe Jaroussky, en Orphée, atteint des sommets d'expressivité.

****1

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Nicolas Nguyen

Nicolas is a French Amsterdammer, e-commerce professional and a bit of an opera buff. His experience in the area of music is that of a dilettante. His passion for the opera and vocal music comes from his love for both music and languages which are so perfectly combined in these art forms.