To close its season this year, If Opera presented this intimate, but still dramatic, pairing of two 17th century vocal works, sacred and secular side by side. Carissimi’s Historia Jonae is one of a series […]
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Riccardo Muti – Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borelli) Schubert: Symphony No. 4 ‘Tragic’, Bruckner: Mass in F minor; Ying Fang, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, William Thomas, Konzertvereinignung Wiener Staatopenchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire: Les Délices de l’Âme Ensemble Amarine Belladiva (Zuzana Badáová, soprano; Michaela Ambrosi, transverse flute; Barbara Maria Willi, harpsichord). Rauzet Priory, Combiers, France, 02.08.2025 Michel de la Barre Suite IX: […]
Nina Brazier’s production of Rigoletto for If Opera (in its delightful new home at Church Farm, Wingfield) presents it as a lively historical spectacle, set at the court of Henry VIII (neatly translating the scene […]
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto – Robert Raso (Curio), Lucile Richardot (Cornelia), Yuriy Mynenko (Tolomeo), Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Achilla) – Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Christophe Dumaux, Olga Kulchynska, Lucile Richardot, […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire: Dutch Baroque plays Dutch Baroque Dutch Baroque (Ivan Iliev, violin; Beniamino Paganini, transverse flute; Anne-Linde Visser, cello; Gerard de Wit, organ/harpsichord/director). Église Saint Pierre d’Edon France, 02.08.2025 Hellendaal Sonata in […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire (3): Orpheus Britannicus Constantin Zimmerman (counter-tenor); Mike Fentross (theorbo). Église Saint-Martin d’Argentine, La Rochebeaucout, France, 02.08.2025 Purcell If Music by the Food of Love; The Fatal Hour Comes On Apace; […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire (2): Divertimento al Cembalo Accademia Strumenale Italiana; Église Saint Pierre et Saint Paul de Blanzaguet Saint Cybard, France, 02.08.2025 Haydn Divertimento in C, Hob..XV:C1 (published London, 1772) Mozart Divertimento […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire: Opening Recital Sonata and Fantasy Gerard de Wit (origan); Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucout, France, 02.08.2025 Bach Prelude and Fugue in F, BWV 559. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV Anh. […]
The animated feature film Kensuke’s Kingdom had its British network TV premiere earlier this month on Sunday, 3 August on BBC One, which means that it is now available on BBC iPlayer until next year! Adapted […]
