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Tag Archives: Mozart
Don Giovanni all at sea at Opera Holland Park
Mozart: Don Giovanni ** Opera Holland Park, 3rd June 2017 This production opens like the perfect whodunnit. Passengers embark with their luggage aboard an ocean liner for a transatlantic cruise, busily locating their cabins. Within moments there’s an attempted rape, … Continue reading
A tale of two tenors as Méhul is celebrated by the OAE
Méhul et al: OAE/Cohen **** St John’s Smith Square, 10th February 2017 Étienne-Nicolas Méhul’s music isn’t familiar to most concert-goers. The only work which I know is his First Symphony, the finale of which contains a motif so similar to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Gluck, Jonathan Cohen, Jonathan Irvin, Kreutzer, Méhul, Michael Spyres, Mozart, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Salieri
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London Mozart Players Chamber ensemble: from shimmering moonlight to Florentine sunshine
London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble **** Conway Hall, 19th December 2016 Despite being nestled in London’s Red Lion Square, Conway Hall somehow captures the atmosphere of your old-fashioned village hall: a plain stage, rows of carefully arranged loose chairs, a … Continue reading
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Mozart with a French accent: Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée at Wigmore Hall
Mozart: Le Concert d’Astrée/Haïm **** Wigmore Hall, 15th November 2016 Taking operatic tunes as inspiration for Harmoniemusik was nothing new in Mozart’s time. He even references his own The Marriage of Figaro in the supper scene of Don Giovanni, where … Continue reading
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