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Tag Archives: Lea Desandre
School for lovers: Loy’s bitter lessons at the Salzburg Festival
Mozart: Così fan tutte Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 2nd August 2020 Così fan tutte is usually translated into English as “All women are like that”. At this summer’s Salzburg Festival, Christof Loy prefers to focus on the opera’s subtitle, La scuola degli amanti (The School … Continue reading
Tangled plot, sensuous score: Cavalli’s Erismena illuminates the Jeu de Paume
Cavalli: Erismena *** Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-Provence You know you’re attending Baroque opera when the names of most of the characters (a) begin with a vowel and (b) are near anagrams of each other. With Erimante, Erismena, Orimeno … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Miminoshvili, Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore, Carlo Vistoli, Cavalli, Erismena, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Francesca Aspromonte, Jakub Józef Orliński, Jean Bellorini, Jonathan Abernethy, Lea Desandre, Leonardo Garcia Alarcón, Macha Makeïeff, Orchestre Cappella Mediterranea, Stuart Jackson, Susanna Hurrell, Tai Oney, Véronique Chazal
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