The Imperfect Pearl: Mark Latimer stages Domenico Zipoli's life and works at St George's Bristol

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 19 March 2013

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Reviewed at St George's Bristol, Bristol on 15 March 2013

Works by Zipoli

Perola Barroca

Emma Rivlin, Director

Mark Latimer, Piano

William Towers, Actor, Countertenor

Eloise Irving, Actor, Soprano

Miles Golding, Violin

Julia Barker, Violin

Sophie Gledhill, Cello

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Mark Valencia, 1st October

It sizzles with energy, fizzes with musical delight and rejoices in an understated sense of fun. Conway gives the work’s incongruities free rein and defies the audience not to chuckle.

****1

Rinaldo revived: Glyndebourne tours its school-based Handel opera

Mark Valencia, 26th October

Blazers and breastplates! This Rinaldo is already eight years old! It’s played at the BBC Proms while almost 40 performances have graced Glyndebourne’s festival and tour up to now, so it must be doing something right.

***11

Bach up close and personal: English Touring Opera's St Matthew Passion

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Immersive, direct and passionate Bach from English Touring Opera and the Old Street Band.

***11

ETO's Radamisto: Uneven Handel in Hackney

Stephen Pritchard, 6th October

English Touring Opera’s new Radamisto took time to settle down on opening night.

***11

Lars Vogt and RNS deliver Bach’s Christmas message of peace and joy

Jane Shuttleworth, 16th December

Lars Vogt, Royal Nothern Sinfonia and Chorus and a strong quartet of soloists bring the angelic tidings of peace and goodwill in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.

****1

Porpora's L'Agrippina offers momentary pleasures

Robert Gainer, 21st September

An opera only ever performed once, over 300 years ago. Would this be a marvellous revival, or a reminder of why it has been neglected all this time?

**111

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.