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Evgeny Titov's production of Le nozze di Figaro, with Louise Alder, Konstantin Krimmel, Elsa Dreisig, Avery Amereau and Huw Montague Rendall. Bayerische Staatsoper, 2023. (Photo: Wilfried Hösl)

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Rodelinda

Œuvre méconnue de Haendel, Rodelinda complète la trilogie des grands opéras serias commencée avec Giulio Cesare in Egitto et Tamerlano. Sous la direction fascinante de Stefano Montanari, Claus Guth présente à l’Opéra de Lyon un travail exigeant et essentiel dont les lignes épurées tracent une Lombardie bouillonnante et héroïque

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Röschmann, Watson, Puértolas, and Amereau

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Dorothea Röschmann sings Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder as part of a concert with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai. Live broadcast Thursday, January 17 on Rai Radio 3.

Katherine Watson and Robert Murray sing works by Händel in a concert with The Sixteen. Live broadcast Saturday, January 19 on OE1.

We get more Handel the next day in the form of a performance of his opera Rodelinda, recorded last month in Lyon. Sabina Puértolas stars in the title role, with up-and-coming contralto Avery Amereau as her sister-in-law Eduige. Sunday, January 20 on France Musique.

OE1 generally keeps broadcasts online for a week, and France Musique keeps most (but not all) broadcasts online even longer than that. Rai does not offer broadcast archives online.

Bonus Connolly content:

The Wiener Staatsoper Ariodante from last March was recently re-broadcast by the Swedish radio station P2. Besides Sarah Connolly in the title role, the stars include Chen Reiss (Ginevra), Christophe Dumaux (Polinesso), and Hila Fahima (Dalinda). You can listen to the audio on demand here for the moment; I’m not sure how long it will stay online but I think it’ll be around for 30 days from its date of broadcast, January 12.

On January 17, the Teatro Real will open its revival of Robert Carsen’s production of Das Rheingold (originally seen at the Oper Köln). Sarah Connolly will sing the role of Fricka in Madrid. The theater has announced that there will be a deferred broadcast of the opera on RNE Radio Clásica, on a date to be determined. I will of course keep an eye out for it and publish the details on my blog when I know more.

[verdiprati]

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: 17th century opera edition (Connolly = Dido!)

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina gets performed more often than your average seventeenth century Italian opera thanks to its status as the oldest surviving opera composed by a woman. Still, it doesn’t come around too often, so I take note every time a broadcast comes up, even if the artists are unknown to me, as in this case. Deferred broadcast Thursday, November 1 on NDR Kultur.

At the end of this week, the Early Opera Company will be performing a double bill of short English operas from the late seventeenth century at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and John Blow’s Venus and Adonis. Sarah Connolly sings the role of Dido while rising contralto Avery Amereau (seen recently as Eduige in the Lille Rodelinda) plays the Sorceress who orchestrates her downfall. Lucy Crowe, Rowan Pierce, and Jonathan McGovern have roles in both operas. Live broadcast Saturday, November 3 on NPO Radio 4. (Should be archived online for a while afterward.)

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... so far we’ve seen only very little of Grimoaldo, Garibaldo, and Eduige (Benjamin Hulett, Andrea Mastroni, Avery Amereau) but I certainly like Grimoaldo’s voice a lot so far.

From the 2018 livestream of GF Händel’s “Rodelinda” at the Opéra de Lille.

[jiyangchen]

Avery Amereau, mezzo-soprano

Photographed by Jiyang Chen