While it is still discussed if Handel’s Semele or Hercules are operas or oratorios, this is not the case of Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, premièred in Rome in 1707, where there was a ban on operatic performances. On writing the libretto for something closer to a cantata than to an oratorio, Cardinal [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, 18.01.2012
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Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, 08.01.2012
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Joel Prieto, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater on January 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I was not going to write a third review of a performance of August Everding’s production of Die Zauberflöte for the Berlin Staatsoper (no1 and no2), but then the experience of seeing it in the Schiller Theater was new for me. It works surprisingly well in the more “modern” auditorium, where everybody can see the [...]
