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Operas with entries in The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera ed. Paul Gruber (Thames and Hudson, 1993). ISBN 0-393-03444-5 and/or Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas ed. John W Freeman (Norton, 1984). ISBN 0-393-01888-1; List of operas and their composers in Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993).
As with all Baroque opera seria, Flavio went unperformed for many years, but with the revival of interest in Baroque music and historically informed musical performance since the 1960s, Flavio, like all Handel operas, receives performances at festivals and opera houses today. [4]
George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres.Though his large scale English language works written for the theatre are technically oratorios and not operas, several of them, such as Semele (1744), have become an important part of the opera repertoire.
In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by the Arcadian Academy, which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the ...
Early Opera Company: baroque opera; English Baroque Soloists (John Eliot Gardiner): baroque and classical-era music; The English Concert (Trevor Pinnock founder, then Andrew Manze, now Harry Bicket) Ex Cathedra (Jeffrey Skidmore): choir and baroque orchestra; I Fagiolini: vocal consort, madrigals; Florilegium, London: baroque; Fretwork: viol ...
2009 – Harrison Birtwistle – The Corridor, a 48-minute chamber opera for two singers and small ensemble. 2014 – Christina Pluhar – Orfeo Chamán, a neo-Baroque operatic adaption of the Orpheus myth, featuring styles from Mexico, Venezuela and Bulgaria.
The Pacific Opera Project goes all out with an obscure Vivaldi showpiece, refashioning the hipster Ebell Club in Highland Park. Review: In a funky Baroque opera house, Pacific Opera Project puts ...
The Festival de Beaune: Festival international d’opéra baroque is a month-long annual summer festival of baroque opera in Beaune, France.It is notable for revivals of many baroque operas and performances of Mozart on original instruments.