Prom 9: Rosa to the rescue

By Alexander Hall, 23 July 2016

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“Feola’s gleaming voice, her creamy tone supported by seamless transitions”

Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 22 July 2016

Mozart, Symphony no. 39 in E flat major, K543

Mendelssohn, Concert aria ‘Infelice’

Mozart, Recitative and Aria for Soprano, "Ah, lo previdi", K272

Mendelssohn, Symphony no. 4 in A major "Italian", Op.90

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492: Overture

Rosa Feola, Soprano

Le Cercle de l'Harmonie

Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor

Tales from the Stave: Barbiere at EIF

David Smythe, 5th August

Laurent Pelly’s elegant musical stave production of Il barbiere di Siviglia, from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, charms and delights at the Edinburgh International Festival.

****1

A rake's progress: Don Giovanni let loose in Aix

Mark Pullinger, 6th July

Jean-François Sivadier's pulsating new production propels The Don through his lusty adventures at a whirlwind pace.

*****

Ceaseless fire in Spontini's Olympie at the Concertgebouw

Jenny Camilleri, 29th October

Jérémie Rhorer led a turbocharged performance of this rare Spontini opera, which, although it tires with its grandiose hyperbole, contains excerpts that deserve to be heard more often.

***11

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence opens with new Figaro

Stephen Raskauskas, 5th July

The 2012 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence began its four-week feast of opera and music with Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro—and could there be better a way? Nothing can beat the sublime company of Mozart, Da Ponte and Beaumarchais on a summer evening in the open-air Théâtre de l'Archevêché.

****1

Mozart Mass in C Minor and Vesperae solennes de confessore

Katy S. Austin, 28th June

This was the second vocal concert of late (the last being Ariodante with Joyce DiDinato) to feature an exemplary female soloist caged inside an otherwise nondescript performance. Jérémie Rohrer tried in vain to force energy out of French chamber choir Les Elements and period ensemble Le Cercle de l’Harmonie.

***11

La Missa solemnis exemplaire de Jérémie Rhorer à Aix-en-Provence

Pierre Michel, 6th April

À la tête de son fidèle Cercle de l'Harmonie, d'une superbe Audi Jugendchorakademie et d'un quatuor de solistes en belle forme, le chef a magnifiquement servi l'œuvre monumentale de Beethoven.

****1

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Alexander Hall

Alexander Hall divides his time between London and Hamburg, where he had a career in academic administration and teaching. He reviews for Bachtrack and Opera Today, and has also reviewed for Classical Source. A connoisseur of the great orchestras of the world, his musical memories stretch back to Karajan/Berlin Phil, Mravinsky/Leningrad Phil, Bernstein/Vienna Phil, and he has seen most of the great conductors from the past, including Böhm, Klemperer, Kubelik, Ormandy and Szell.

Prom 9: Rosa to the rescue: Feola, Rhorer and Le Cercle d'Harmonie