Création en France d'une académie dédiée à l'art de la mélodie et du lied | Forum Opéra

L'art de la mélodie n'est pas aujourd'hui le plus prisé des mélomanes. Notre audimat le prouve : voix et piano ensemble réunis ne suscitent pas un débordement de clics. Le genre est intime, les chiffres aussi. Pourtant, que de bonheurs dans cette union ét

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Portrait croisé Haydn-Handel par William Christie à Saint-Jean-d'Acre

Deuxième édition des Journées de Galilée à Saint-Jean-d'Acre, dans le plein air magique de la citadelle des Croisés : le chef fondateur des Arts Florissants enchaîne sans jour de repos deux partitions pleines de grâce, un oratorio (La Création) et un masq

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BWW Review: Juilliard's HIPPOLYTE ET ARICIE Shows How Modern French Opera Began

The Juilliard School pulled out all the stops for Stephen Wadsworth's production of HIPPOLYTE ET ARICIE (1733) by Jean-Philippe Rameau this week. Gorgeously designed by Charlie Corcoran with marvelous costumes by Sarah Cubbage, Juilliard has the resources

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Review: France Once Fought Over This Opera. Juilliard Shows Us Why.

Alex Rosen's rich bass voice showed promise as it rode the buffets of Rameau's arduous writing for Theseus (Thésée), whose sustained suffering in the opera feels almost a precursor of Wagner's Tristan. Brooding without overplaying as Phaedra (Phèdre), the

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An Opera Worth Fighting Over

Opera is a pretty placid universe these days. So it's hard to imagine a premiere that could single-handedly divide the music-loving public in two, separating it into factions with positions as hotly held as those of today's Democrats and Republicans. Rame

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Juilliard Opera Presents Rameau's HIPPOLYTE ET ARICIE

Juilliard's Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts presents Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera, Hippolyte et Aricie, conducted by Stephen Stubbs and directed by Stephen Wadsworth with choreographed by Zack Winokur. The opera features singers from Ju

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Texas Classical Review

George Frideric Handel knew what he was doing. He performed Messiah around Easter, when following Jesus's saga to its brutal conclusion suits the occasion. But at Christmastime, when the oratorio mainly turns up nowadays, the violence and suffering invoke

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Houston Symphony and Chorus Treat Audiences to Premier Performances of Baroque Masterpiece MESSIAH

The Houston Symphony celebrates the holiday season with a Baroque-era masterpiece, Handel'sMessiah, at 8 p.m. Dec. 15-16 and 2:30 p.m. Dec. 17 in Jones Hall.

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