Vocal fireworks from Franco Fagioli

By Jack Johnson, 22 September 2014

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“ the sense of performance was almost as Italianate as the music”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 21 September 2014

Porpora, Other (Arias)

Porpora, Semi Riconosciuta: Vorrei spiegar l'affano

Vivaldi, Concerto in G for strings and continuo

Vivaldi, Concerto for violin and oboe in F major, RV 543

Vivaldi, Sinfonia for strings in G major, RV 149

Vivaldi, Cello Concerto in C minor, RV 401

Franco Fagioli, Countertenor

Academia Montis Regalis

A metatheatrical take on Enrico di Borgogna in Bergamo

Laura Servidei, 25th November

A clever production enlivens a rare, early opera at the Donizetti Opera Festival. A fantastic cast and a great period orchestra seal a resounding success under the lead of Alessandro De Marchi.

*****

Franco Fagioli chante Haendel et Porpora

Julie Jozwiak, 14th September

À Ambronay, Franco Fagioli chantait de sa voix spectaculaire plusieurs grands airs de Porpora et Haendel, accompagné par Alessandro de Marchi et l’Academia Montis Regalis. Un pur joyau.

****1

Franco Fagioli and Versailles bring rare bel canto to New York

Robert Levine, 23rd July

The Argentinian countertenor brings a program of music performed by famed castrato Giovanni Battista Velluti to L'Alliance.

****1

Tales of woe: Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo at Versailles

Dominic Lowe, 18th October

Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo won the favour of no less than Napoleon I himself and a new production at the Opéra Royal offers an appropriately regal setting in which to see Gilles Rico's new production of this once famous opera.

****1

Devieilhe's Cleopatra reigns in Michieletto's muddled Egyptology show

Mark Pullinger, 11th May

The French soprano delivers an A-list performance as the Egyptian queen, donning a variety of Hollywood guises at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

***11

Leonardo Vinci's music revived by Franco Fagioli at Bayreuth Baroque

Lorenzo Fiorito, 11th September

The Argentinian, one of the greatest countertenors of his generation, is today's specialist in the repertoire of Neapolitan composer Leonardo Vinci.

*****

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Jack Johnson

After completing a postgraduate degree in Music at King's College London in 2013, Jack now works in development for an arts charity based in London. Aside from regularly attending concerts, he plays piano and clarinet and enjoys singing with several choirs. Particularly passions include Bach, Prokofiev and the neglected choral works of Hummel

Vocal fireworks and obscure arias from Franco Fagioli