[Who needs Jove, anyway? The only guy we need around here is George Frideric. – Nicole Chevalier (Semele), Katarina Bradić (Ino) and Ezgi Kutlu (Juno) in Handel’s “Semele”, as staged by Barrie Kosky, Berlin/KOB 2018. – Photo Credit: the one and only Monika Rittershaus]
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spot the conflict of interest.
also, if someone would please forward me that memo I apparently missed on CTs being the new go-to Ruggieros, thank you.
Welcome to the White Shirt live comment thread for Vivaldi’s “Incoronazione di Dario” from Turin (2017), with Ottavio Dantone conducting and staged by Leo Muscato.
Cast List:
Statira – Sara Mingardo
Argene – Delphine Galou
Dario – Carlo Allemano
Niceno – Riccardo Novaro
Alinda – Roberta Mameli
Oronte – Lucia Cirillo
Arpago – Veronica Cangemi
Flora – Romina Tomasoni
Ghost of Ciro & Oracle of Apollo – Cullen Gandy
Libretto: no such luck, but subtitles on the official DVD! (which is the only source for now; no online availability yet)
It is finally happening – the Mingardo/Galou-led “Incoronazione di Dario” under Dantone is out on DVD and it looks hilarious.
Hello, Anik’s holiday season Wishlist!
(not to self: this will not help with our current case of Mingardo fever. Then again, why would we want help on that front?)
Thank you, Lang, for the alert!
[Iervolino singing “Sgombra la selva”, Salerno 2017. – Clip with thanks to jovi1715]
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Why did no one tell me Iervolino was debuting Adalgisa, I feel deprived.
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Welcome to the White Shirt live comment thread for Handel’s “Aci, Galatea & Polifemo” from Turin (2017), with Antonio Florio conducting and staged by Davide Livermore.
Cast List:
Sara Mingardo (Galatea)
Luisa Baldinetti (Galatea’s double)
Ruth Rosique (Aci)
Cristina Banchetti (Aci’s double)
Antonio Abete (Polifemo)
Sax Nicosia (Polifemo’s double)
Librettolibretto (1708 version): here in English and Italian, here in German and Italian.
Queer Lorgnette 