White Shirt Monday: Love is in the Air

[Springtime! April! Also: how to make an entrance. Emmanuelle de Negri (Amour) in Rameau’s “Platée”, Vienna/TADW 2020]

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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.