White Shirt Monday: Handel The Apocalypse

[What, the apocalypse calls and I don’t even get a soprano in distress to save? – Emily Fons (Faramondo) in Handel’s “Faramondo”, Göttingen 2014]

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#MyOperaPlayer nos sigue ofreciendo un estreno diario durante el confinamiento. Hoy a las 19h #ElLiceuEnCasa con ‘I Capuleti e i Montechi’ de Bellini grabada en el Liceu la temporada 2015/16.

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🤔Algunas curiosidades de la ópera en Liceu 👇(1/6) pic.twitter.com/S330tzdJGx

— Gran Teatre Liceu (@Liceu_cat) March 27, 2020

#MezzosForTheApocalypse

Kathy and I thought it might be fun to play around with songs we love. Funnily enough, we both lean towards badass female singer/songwriters…WHAT A SURPRISE. 😂 First up is Fiona Apple – video now live on Insta TV! <living my 90s angsty pianist LIIIIIFE> https://t.co/xnbmOboRgF pic.twitter.com/i0ap9KlvE4

— Jamie Barton (@jbartonmezzo) March 24, 2020

 

In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. election fiasco, we coined a few hasthags, and Fierce came up with #MezzosForTheRevolution.

I think we got a new one: #MezzosForTheApocalypse.

Day 8 #songsofcomfort Lean on me with @angela_brower Happy Monday, let’s all stay at home and stay well, the sooner we abide by social distancing the sooner we will break the curve! #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/Dpahst6VFS

— Tara Erraught (@TaraErraught) March 23, 2020

Between Jamie Barton and Kathleen Kelly starting a “Strong badass women and 90s angst” song cycle (which they should take on tour once this is over), Angela Brower and Tara Erraught doing mezzo duets on Twitter/IG that always make me catch something in my eye right when I watch it, and Joyce DiDonato starting nightly ‘how do I breathe through this?’ YT-gatherings on her channel like the true nurting leader she is, it seems it will be the mezzos who take care of our emotional survival.

 

Zurich 20/21

 

Galou/Genaux/Bonitatibus with Dantone-directed Vivaldi — where are the smelling salts? We need them by Nov 1st! (Also Juncker, Allemano, and, missing here but in the issuu edit, Anna Devin!!)

Review: Royal Fireworks. Lully’s „Isis“ at Theater an der Wien

[Curtain call at Theater an der Wien, after Lully’s “Isis”,Feb. 22nd, 2o2o – Le Chœur de Chambre du Namur & Les Talens Lyriques, with Christophe Rousset and soloists Aimery Lefèvre, Victor Sicard, Philippe Estèphe, Fabien Hyon, Cyril Auvity, Ambroisine Bré, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Bénédicte Tauran]

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The curved neck of a viola da gamba. The different shades of polished wood of a set of recorders, resting on green velvet underneath a note stand. A thick rattle of castanets.

White Shirt Monday: Drama Therapy Couch

[Bradamante is exasperated at the level of Relationship Drama ™ (honey, have you seen “The L Word”, this really isn’t that bad): Wallis Giunta (Bradamante), Jacquelyn Wagner (Alcina) and Maria Kataeva (Ruggiero) in Handel’s “Alcina”, Düsseldorf, 2020. – Photo Credit: Jochen Quast for Deutsche Oper am Rhein]

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