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Roberta Mameli and Julie Robard-Gendre in La clemenza di Tito. Angers-Nantes Opéra, 2021. (Photo credit: Jean-Marie Jagu)

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Lemieux, Mameli, Prina, Erraught, Hallenberg (x2), Gauvin, Baráth, Lindsey (x2)

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.

Marie-Nicole Lemieux sings Berlioz’ Les nuits d’été with the Orchestre National de France. Live broadcast Wednesday, September 18 on France Musique.

Roberta Mameli and Sonia Prina make up two thirds of the vocal team for a performance of Handel’s Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo with Labarroca at the Enescu Festival. Live broadcast Thursday, September 19 on Radio România Muzical (and presumably a video livestream from the festival as well).

Tara Erraught sings lieder by Wolf, Schubert, Mahler, and Brahms in a recital at Schwarzenberg with clarinetist Jörg Widmann and pianist Malcolm Martineau. Deferred broadcast Thursday, September 19 on Ö1. 

Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the Enescu Festival features a countertenor Cesare (Christopher Lowry) but mezzophiles may enjoy hearing Ann Hallenberg in the role of Sesto. Also notable: Karina Gauvin as Cleopatra. The Cornelia, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, is unknown to me; her YouTube clips give evidence of a mahogany-toned voice. The orchestra is Les Talens Lyriques conducted by Christophe Rousset. Live broadcast Friday, September 20 on Radio România Muzical (and video livestream, I assume).

Emőke Baráth sings the role of Euridice in a performance of Monteverdi’s Orfeo. Other names that stand out to me on the cast list are Cyril Auvity and Nuria Rial. Live broadcast Friday, September 20 on the Müpa Budapest website (it’s not clear to me whether this will be audio-only or a video livestream). 

Ann Hallenberg leads the cast of Handel’s Agrippina at the Enescu Festival. Much of the casting of Cesare is repeated (including Lowrey and Gauvin), as are the orchestra and conductor. Live broadcast Saturday, September 21 on Radio România Muzical (and, presumably, in a livestream on the Festival’s website). 

Kate Lindsey sings, I assume, the role of Juliet in Berlioz’ Romeo et Juliette. Andrew Staples and Shenyang are also on the roster. Deferred broadcast Saturday, September 21 on RBB Kultur.

Kate Lindsey also sings—or rather, sang, eight years ago—a recital of works by Liszt, Bizet, Fairouz, Arlen and Argento. With Kim Pensinger Witman. Very, very deferred broadcast Sunday, September 22 on WETA. 

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Claudio Monteverdi - Lamento della Ninfa

Roberta Mameli, soprano

La Venexiana, dir. Claudio Cavina

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“Fa che ritorni il mio amor com'ei pur fu, o tu m'ancidi, ch'io non mi tormenti più”

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Sorge il dì from Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, sung by Sonia Prina and Roberta Mameli.

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Roberta Mameli and Giuseppina Bridelli in La clemenza di Tito. Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2019. (Photo: Michele Monasta)

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Gerhaher, DiDonato, and Hallenberg

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.

Christian Gerhaher and his regular accompanist Gerold Huber perform repertoire by Britten, Brahms, and Mussorgsky in a recital at the Salzburg Festival. Deferred broadcast Wednesday Tuesday, August 13 on Ö1.

Joyce DiDonato sings Berlioz’ Les nuits d’été with the National Youth Orchestra of the USA as part of a concert on tour in Hamburg. Video livestream Thursday Wednesday, August 14 on the Elbphilharmonie’s YouTube channel.

Ann Hallenberg sings the title role of Handel’s Ariodante in the current production at the Drottningholms Slottsteater; notable co-stars include Roberta Mameli (Ginevra), Francesca Aspromonte (Dalinda), and Christophe Dumaux (Polinesso). The director is Nicola Raab; Ian Page conducts. Deferred radio broadcast Sunday Saturday, August 17 on Sveriges Radio P2.

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Piau, Crebassa, Desandre, Prina, Leonard, Graves, Antonacci, DiDonato, and MORE

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.

This week’s MMM is a corker, including French and Italian Gluck Orpheus-es with dreamy casts for their respective languages, so pop open your calendar and write in your faves!

Sandrine Piau, one of the finest Handel interpreters I have ever heard, sings an assortment of Handel arias with I Bollenti Spiriti. Deferred broadcast Tuesday, October 16 on France Musique.*

Marianne Crebassa, Hélène Guilmette, and Lea Desandre star in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice (reworked by Berlioz) at the Opéra Comique. Video livestream Thursday, October 18 on Arte Live Web.*

Sonia Prina, Roberta Mameli, and Marie-Sophie Pollack take on the same roles in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna version, 1762) in a concert performance at NOSPR in Katowice. Live audio broadcast Friday, October 19 on Dwójka.

This one’s for Dilys: Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers and the Academy of Ancient Music in Lully’s Te Deum and a selection of works by Rameau. Live broadcast Friday, October 19 on BBC Radio 3.*

Isabel Leonard, Janis Kelly, Denyce Graves, Iestyn Davies, and Christopher Maltman make up the appropriately Anglo-American cast for Marnie, an opera by Nico Muhly based on a British novel (known for being made into a Hitchcock film), premiered by the English National Opera, and now being revived by the Met. Live audio stream Friday, October 19 on the Metropolitan Opera website. 

Mezzophiles may want to hear mezzo emerita Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre) and mezzo celeberrima Joyce DiDonato (Didon) in Les Troyens at the Wiener Staatsoper. Deferred broadcast Saturday, October 20 on Ö1.*

Broadcasts marked with an asterisk (*) are on radio stations (or other platforms) known to me to have a history of making concert broadcasts available for listening on demand for at least a week following the initial broadcast.