After a season of dark and tragic stories, the Sarasota Opera closes with much lighter fare that will be new to just about everyone. Joseph Haydn’s “Deceit Unwitted” (or “L’infedelta delusa”) had its ...
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Wednesday's cast claimed a magnificent Sempronio, the old apothecary, in Richard Ollarsaba, whose bass is not only booming but beautiful. He had the character's eccentricities at his witty command.
Even before the first notes air, a reconstructed Haydn opera in its U.S. premiere carries at least as much curiosity as it does clout. Yet when Opera at Rutgers in collaboration with Musica Raritana — ...
Puppet theater was popular during the 18th century. Patrons espoused it, fine composers and writers created for it, the populace came to see it. Haydn's patron, Prince Esterhazy, was no exception, and ...
In 1958, rummaging through the Hungarian National Library in Budapest, a young U.S. musicologist named H. C. Robbins Landon unearthed a treasure-trove of eight operas by Franz Joseph Haydn. The scores ...
Semi-staged opera lives in a half-world — part orchestral concert, part dramatic presentation. The goal is straightforward: to involve the audience in a dramatic narrative. The challenge? Do that with ...
Classical music buffs certainly have heard Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, but we suspect they’ve never heard them sing. Next June, the 2014 Ojai Music Festival will give them the chance. The three great ...