Cavalli's La Calisto at NEC is presented as part of the Pratt Residency and Performance Series for Early Music, established through the generosity of Life Trustee Harold I. Pratt and his wife, Frances. At the end of the interval, however, a spokesman announced that the changing temperature was making his voice unstable and he begged our indulgence. Once Jason (Sabadus) has been recalled to his duty, he goes to solicit the help of Queen Medea (Kristina Hammarström), little realising that he knows her much better than he thinks. A search of the immigration and passenger lists has shown a number of people bearing the name Cavallo: Bartolomeo Cavallero, who arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1778 with his wife Maria and his six children; Diego, Antonio, Bartolomeo, Maria, Augustina, Andrea, and Louis Cavalli, who were all naturalized in Detroit in 1833. No Youtube clip, sadly, but no doubt that will simply work to increase the anticipation until I can show it to you. Dr Glover has published a 1978 biography of Francesco Cavalli, and included material derived from her doctoral thesis. Francesco Cavalli—Requiem (Ensemble Polyharmonique/Alexander Schneider). Elena is an opera by Francesco Cavalli, the star composer of 17th-century Venice. ( Log Out /  But Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) was right there with the Master in time and place. If one of your images appears uncredited in one of my posts, please get in touch with me and I will gladly add your credit. Between the three of them, these women kept the stage alight. As ever, Cavalli’s women are particularly strong: I feel compelled to note that both Medea and Hypsipyle are queens in their own right. When this recording was made in 2006, recordings and even performances of the operas of Francesco Cavalli were rare. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Vocally, I thought most of the cast were very good. The performances are taking place in an outdoor courtyard of an old box factory, now home to an art gallery in what is billed as “Brooklyn’s Venice,” by the Gowanus Canal, and is produced by Vertical Player Repertory. On 29 May 1672, fearing that her husband would kill her, Mancini left Rome accompanied by her sister Hortense Mancini. Career This research greatly increased his interest in Gregorian chant. ( Log Out /  On the afternoon of the concert, the doorbell rang at the headmaster's house, and I went to answer it. There on the step, looking for all the world as they did on one of my record sleeves, distinguished, elegant and with the kindliest of eyes, were Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten my hero.". [6] On 18 March 2011, she conducted the world première of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Kommilitonen! (Her two children by Jason remain unslaughtered here: this is Venetian froth, not Greek tragedy.). In 1990, after a sizeable donation, the Glover Music School was opened at Monmouth School by Jane Glover, in memory of her father. For the last year they’ve been kept kicking their heels while their leader, Jason, diverts himself with a mysterious woman. He might be thoroughly enjoying himself but, as his fellow Argonaut Hercules tells him, it’s time to move on. Did I mention that Jason has also given each woman twin sons? After reading Music as an undergraduate at St Hugh's College, Oxford, she went on to complete a DPhil on 17th-century Venetian Opera. Amidst the glitz and glitter of Versailles’s Opéra Royal, everything was about to hit the fan in a very, very Baroque fashion. Vocally, however, Sabadus was very slightly off colour when we saw him. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Though I can’t promise that my reaction won’t be the old: “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”. La Didone was premiered in 1641, a year after Monteverdi's Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria and a year before L'Incoronazione di Poppea. It’s always great to have an excuse to go to Versailles and spend a few hours in this jewel of an opera house, and it was also wonderful to tick off one more Cavalli opera. Well, if he did, he could’ve taken a page out of his own book and used it more in his signed work as well! David Lim met his Irish wife Joyce Davis, a nurse, while studying at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin in the 1950s and 60s. I have a new addition for those hallowed halls: Francesco Cavalli’s Ercole Amante, designed for the stage by David Alden. Review of Handel in London: The Making of a Genius. I’m fine, thank you – just tired and in need of a few evenings cuddled up at home with a good book! Save me. Well, my appetite is well and truly whetted. And that was something that came across: the sheer fun being had by all. To make matters worse, his fiancee Hypsipyle, Queen of Lemnos, has grown tired of waiting for him and is coming to fetch him home. [5] Since 2002, she has been Music Director of the Chicago ensemble Music of the Baroque. [8], In September 2005, Macmillan published Glover's book Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music. One of the stars was Agadzhanyan as Demo, partly for his exuberant performance, but also for the sheer command he exercised over his lines: singing Baroque opera is difficult enough without having to ‘stutter’ your music, and he did a wonderful job of singing the clown-sidekick role. Raum Klang CD RK 3601. But hope it’s good! A 3.75 if you like…, A splendid message to end on: ‘Make Love Not War’ proclaims the tableau at the final curtain, I know I was taking the piss out of the Three Countertenors CD, but upon listening to it seriously again today, I have to admit Dominique Visse is passable when he’s (a) not a nurse, (b) singing in French, and (c) actually singing, and not speak-singing or lapsing in and out of his CT voice. Album Description. I thought it was “the bassist”. Her recordings include Cavalli (La Calisto - extracts), Handel (Messiah; Water Music suites 1-3), Haydn (Symphonies 80, 87, 89, 101, 102, 103, 104; 'Harmoniemesse' and 'Schöpfungsmesse', Mozart (Symphonies 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41; Divertimenti K. 136-K. 138 & Serenade K. 525, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"; Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments K361; Requiem K.626), Mendelssohn (Violin Concerto Op. La Didone was premiered in 1641, a year after Monteverdi's Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria and a year before L'Incoronazione di Poppea. The opera was composed for the Venice Carnival Season of 1668, but first performed 331 years later. But if you also remembered a 340-year-old opera by Francesco Cavalli, called Hercules in Love, go to the head of the class. It was so very nearly four stars, but I just felt there were too many issues for me to give it that rating with a clear conscience. In a neat touch, the orchestra were Cappella Mediterranea and the conductor was Leonardo Garcia Alarcón, who were behind the recording of Elena that did so much to get Sabadus established as a leading man back in the day. Based on a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, Cavalli’s opera was first performed on 5 January 1649 in Venice. Good use was made of the stage, too, although I tired rather quickly of watching lustful old Delpha despoiling yet more young soldiers. A 1912 neighborhood meetinghouse has been converted … Dame Jane Alison Glover DBE (born 13 May 1949) is a British-born conductor and musicologist. Born at Helmsley, Glover attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. It seems that Visse is now the pantomime dame of Baroque operas: if you need a comedy nurse, he’s your man. Huge applause must go to the enterprising Feminear, who as Cupid spent the entire opera in an oversized baby-shaped fat-suit. Dr Glover has published a 1978 biography of Francesco Cavalli, and included material derived from her doctoral thesis. Performances are July 8, 10, 14 and 16, all at 8PM. Unless of course you subscribe to the theory that Cavalli wrote Pur ti miro, in which case the best of Monteverdi *is* Cavalli? As you’ve probably guessed, I went for Sabadus and enjoyed his performance, noting as ever his great gift for comedy and his willingness to make himself look ridiculous. Perhaps I should mention Dominique Visse’s Delpha here, as an honorary woman. ( Log Out /  The early baroque period opera, La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli, was based on the myth of Callisto from Ovid's Metamorphoses.The opera premiered on Nov. 28, 1651, at the Teatro Sant 'Apollinare Public Opera House in Venice, Italy. Italian composer and singer. Sit back and marvel. Approximate Run Time: Cavalli's La Calisto plays in 2 hours and 15 minutes with one intermission. She did not return to Italy until her husband's death in 1689. My latest adventure is as Giove, King of the Gods, in Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto.. I’m also having trouble with Cavalli beyond the (very) amusing nature of his stories. Ercole Amante was commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin for the wedding of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain in 1660. Giasone is no exception. Jason (Valer Sabadus) and Aegeus (Raul Gimenez). As Medea’s rival, Aspromonte was a loyal innocent, the purity of her voice backing up her character. I should say that I agonised about the rating for this. Russell exemplifies the “can do” spirit of Haymarket Opera Company. I was also pleasantly surprised by Meerapfel’s Oreste, who was heartsick without losing his dignity, and who provided a sober rallying point amid Hypsipyle’s fluttering handmaidens. The most lavish and vast villa of the ancient Rome, the Domus Aurea. [2] She made her professional debut at the Wexford Festival in 1975 with the first modern performance of Eritrea[3] and joined Glyndebourne in 1979. The music almost always feels to me like second rate Monteverdi. Here he made a very good job of making a hero unsympathetic, of stripping away the glamour of Jason of Thessaly and letting us see the silly little man beneath. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts—by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus—form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph … When faced with the two women he has dishonoured, in an unholy duo, his reaction is to try to run away. (Oreste finds it hard to be entirely sad about this, as he has a long-cherished soft spot for his young mistress.) The things we do for art. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Songs for Nancy: A concert to celebrate Nancy Storace, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adqyQ9AEBms. Jason (Valer Sabadus) and his mystery lady Medea (Kristina Hammarström). . His Ercole in Amante shows Hercules as a swaggering, lustful idiot; in Elena, the future king Menelaus spends most of his time in a dress. The eponymous Jason sprawls in a love-fuelled stupor and sings for five minutes about how glorious sex is, but he just can’t manage any more just at the moment and longs only to ‘die’ (ahem) in the lap of his mistress. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. If any regular readers still think that Baroque opera is highbrow, serious stuff, I invite you to listen to Giasone’s first major aria. Cavalli - The Requiem is the composer's last sacred work, … Stellar CD, as you can probably tell; an essential for any CT aficionado’s collection. She has conducted opera at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Berlin Staatsoper, Royal Danish Opera, Opéra National du Rhin, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, and Teatro La Fenice. Her father, Robert Finlay Glover, MA (TCD), was headmaster of Monmouth School and it was through this connection that she was able to meet Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears aged only 16. In 2018, her Handel in London: The Making of a Genius, was published, which charts the composer's work as "immigrant musical genius, composer, performer and impresario", placed in the social and political context of London of the time.[9]. She holds a number of honorary degrees from several universities, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music and has been the artistic director of opera at the Royal Academy of Music since 2009. Of course, much of that may have been deliberate, to underscore the innate comedy of a man playing a woman… and I think part of it is that I just don’t warm to him. Sick with love of Jason, she sends Oreste off to find out the latest news, while her maids – led by the spirited Alinda (Mariana Flores) try to jolly her along. Meanwhile, on the banks of the river Iberus, Hypsipyle (Francesca Aspromonte) pauses with her band of excitable maids and her loyal servant Oreste (Alejandro Meerapfel). I’d spotted something odd in the first half, which I couldn’t identify exactly – my ear knew that it wasn’t perfect but I don’t have the music vocabulary to understand what I was hearing. He and his wife Paula have two wonderful children and one glorious granddaughter. (Remarkably, one of the tamer interpretations.) Delpha (Dominique Visse, in fatsuit) approaches one of her victims. As Medea’s rival, Aspromonte was a loyal innocent, the purity of her voice backing up her character. I’ll be eagerly keeping my eye on Versailles’s programming in the seasons to come, hoping we might have some more Baroque to look forward to. The male singers weren’t quite as strong as the women. She is splendid as she calls upon the fiends of hell, wreathed in smoke and wielding a sorcerer’s staff; ferocious as she encounters her rival; she only feels unconvincing at the end, when the laws of opera require her to forgive and make peace. Ludovico Einaudi was born on 23 November 1955, in Turin, Italy. For her part, she scolds him for womanising his way around her kingdom, teasingly claims that her elderly maid Delpha (Dominique Visse) is his beloved, and then finally outs herself. After the birth of their third son, relations between Colonna and his wife deteriorated for multiple reasons, including his infidelities and her fears of further childbirth. Take a look at the Cavalli clan as shot by Patrick Demarchelier. She was music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 to 1985. Eliogabalo was the last surviving work of Cavalli, “the pre-eminent theatre musician of the mid-century” (Carter), the scores of whose almost 30 Venetian operas “shift flexibly between recitative and aria styles, sometimes within only a few bars”.. Jason, astonished, accepts her offer of magical assistance in his quest for the fleece – for Medea is, of course, a sorceress – and then the two lovers plan to scarper, leaving behind Medea’s elderly husband Aegeus, King of Athens (the father of Theseus, for those whom enjoy keeping their myth-cycles straight). She later described the meeting: "I was beside myself with the prospect of hearing them perform. Apollo (Francesca Aspromonte) and Cupid (Mary Feminear) have already had a spat in the prologue about whom Jason should marry: Apollo champions Medea, who is his descendant; Cupid has already made plans for Hypsipyle. Which of these famous missions was *not* one of Hercules' twelve tasks? The set itself was simple but very effective: a great boulder splits open in answer to Medea’s dark command, revealing the glint of the Golden Fleece within, and the final act took place among billboard trees and bushes, as the characters stumbled through the inevitable last-minute confusions. Buy CDs,DVDs online at hbdirect.com: Francisco Cavalli: Ercole Amante / Bolton/Concerto Koln, Netherlands Opera Chorus [2 DVD] Composers: Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676) Performers: Anna Bonitatibus Veronica Cangemi Marlin Miller Jeremy Ovenden Anna Panzarella Luca Pisaroni Label: BBC Opus Arte Conductors: Ivor Bolton Ensembles: Concerto Koln Netherlands Opera Chorus - BOA 1020 Was it Cavalli? "[10] She has been a regular collaborator with choreographer Mark Morris. Hope you’re ok otherwise. Her brother, Richard Glover, served as Master Haberdasher (2015–16). Canning, Hugh. Although, I’ve just gotten to them singing “My Way”. The setting was vaguely 1930s with modern commando uniforms for the Argonauts, while the gods were resplendent in proper Baroque costumes to differentiate their reality from the mess of adultery and cowardice all around them. Here is him singing Massanet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adqyQ9AEBms. Just when things look as if they can’t get any more complicated, the gods get involved. Francesco Cavalli's Baroque opera is staged with a cheeky sensibility in Highland Park. [7], Glover was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2003 New Year Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to music. Of course, Oreste returns with the unfortunate news that Jason has impregnated another woman and scarpered with her. at the Academy. (English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire, 14 October 2016) On Friday night it was time for the second opera in ETO’s autumn Baroque trilogy (the first was their Battle of Britain Xerxes).This time we were going back to the mid-17th century for Cavalli’s Calisto, which on the surface is an exuberant pantomime in song about gods behaving badly in the forests of Arcadia. H has high expectations for Iestyn . (Identical to the VE52 text, except for ‘empier’) Christine Jeanneret, in her essay ‘Maria Cavalli: In the Shadow of Francesco’4 identifies the handwriting of this addition as that of Maria Cavalli, Francesco’s wife. And Cavalli was a central figure in the evolution of opera, easily the best known and most popular composer of such works in his age. As a matter of fact, having so much space suddenly available in the city centre, gave Nero the opportunity to build right on the Colle Oppio the most lavish and vast villa of the ancient Rome, the Domus Aurea.. Cavalli is not the most musical composer, to my ears (I still think his operas are more like sung dramas than proper opera), but he’s one of the most deliciously silly, dramatic and irreverent. Faith, Hope and Charity (2015) is an epic play set in Malta at the start of the Second World War as part of the 2015 Malta Arts Festival. Indeed, she comes out of this as the one moulding the story to her own ends. It was unfortunate that Giménez sang the whole thing as though it were Puccini, with a pronounced bel canto delivery that feels completely foreign in the context of Cavalli’s more austere music. Her hand is also 4Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage: Manuscript, Edition, Production. Forgot to say: are either of you coming to Rinaldo tomorrow? Here, Davide portraying the injured Italian pilot Francesco Cavalli who, after having an emergency landing in Malta, falls in love with the nurse who takes care of him. 64; "A Midsummer Night's Dream" incidental music), Britten (Les Illuminations; Nocturne; Sinfonietta). Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I do my best to locate the creators of all artwork used on this site, but sometimes the images have become divorced from their artist information by the time I find them. He wrote 41 operas, and 27 of them survive. Hammarström had the best role, as Medea, and she brought power and intensity to her singing. And Cavalli was a central figure in the evolution of opera, easily the best known and most popular composer of such works in his age. A great treat. ( Log Out /  Ercole amante (Hercules in Love, French: Hercule amoureux) is an opera in a prologue and five acts by Francesco Cavalli.Its Italian libretto is by Francesco Buti [], based on Sophocles' The Trachiniae and on the ninth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.The first performance took place on 7 February 1662 in the Salle des Machines of the Tuileries in Paris. As ever, Cavalli’s women are particularly strong: I feel compelled to note that both Medea and Hypsipyle are queens in their own right. He was the son of Giovanni Battista Caletti, organist and maestro di capellaat the cathedral at Crema.As a boy Francesco apparently excelled as a singer in the local choir; Venetian nobleman and governor Federico Cavalli noticed the boy and in 1616 persuaded the elder Caletti to let Francesco accompany him to Venice, where he would see to his musical studies. During the 1980s, Glover regularly broadcast on BBC Television including hosting the television series Orchestra with Jane Glover in 1983 and Mozart – His Life with Music in 1985. Oh goodness, they’ve just started “O sole mio”. After having killed his first wife, he had to perform twelve tasks. His eye for stories rarely falls flat and this production of Giasone does credit to his playful and tongue-in-cheek score. He doesn’t seem to take himself anywhere near as seriously as many other countertenors do, and that’s refreshing, because he’s quite happy to play the buffoon if that’s what it takes. It must have been rather like a reunion for them all. In December 2013, she became the third woman ever to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, leading Mozart's The Magic Flute in the production of Julie Taymor; the New York Times wrote, "...Ms. Glover's appearance, and the magisterial performance and nuance she drew from the orchestra, were the news here. Jason is a figure of mockery: a man ‘effeminate’ in the Baroque sense of the word, whose manly qualities have been diluted through excessive sex with women. I’ve never been a great fan, I admit, and his strength here was very definitely comedy rather than singing, as his voice wavered wildly between (creditable) falsetto and broken chest voice. The dauntless Argonauts came to the shores of Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece, but their heroism has been put on hold. Many are difficult to stage, but those who persist, find works that have a good deal of power and were critical to the development of opera as it is known today. Glover was the Music Director of the London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991. II. Naturally, this translated at Versailles into Valer Sabadus lying blindfolded on a rock with his shirt open and his trousers undone. Once Aegeus (Raúl Giménez) hears about his wife’s flight, he decides to follow her – because, despite everything, he actually loves Medea – accompanied by his long-suffering hunchbacked and stuttering servant Demo (Migran Agadzhanyan). In smaller roles, Günes Gürie (Besso) and Taras Berezhansky (Ercole) were both impressive, but didn’t really have enough chance to shine. In addition to my wife Amy Dubinsky, many dear friends and collegues helped me proofreading my writing: Diana Russo, Mary Ella Savarino, Kathryne Fenton, Heather Foote, Stevie Gaza, Katheryn Lawson, et al. facsimile of Francesco Cavalli’s manuscript scores belonging to the Contarini Collection. Thursday April 9, 2020: New England Conservatory Opera presents La Calisto, Francesco Cavalli's early Baroque opera. The Yankees signed Cervelli as an international free agent in 2003. Her brother, Richard Glover, served as Master Haberdasher (2015–16). In 1990, after a sizeable donation, the Glover Music School[1] was opened at Monmouth School by Jane Glover, in memory of her father. Yes, my dear CTs, you certainly are doing it your way and my jaw is aching from the silly smile I have on my face. So please read this as a high 3.5. Funnily enough, he was much, much better in the second half and we had plenty more of his characteristic bell-like long high notes, much to my delight. That's Roberto Cavalli and granddaughter Mariacarla with (from right): son Robin; son-in-law Joseph Aicoviello, daughter Rachele, and granddaughter Maria Eva; wife Eva; and daughter Cristiana with fiancé Francesco Agostinelli. Elena was penned in 1659, and was never performed since. The third portion of the limelight went to Flores’s Alinda, the classic cheeky maid who sings about how wonderful it is to be able to pick up men and drop them as you please (this Alinda, in a comic touch, was heavily pregnant). She has been both principal conductor and principal guest conductor of the Huddersfield Choral Society and continues to work with the choir on a semi-regular basis. As Jason’s two lovers meet head on, things are about to get messy. There’s a stark contrast between his weakness of spirit and Medea’s magnificent grandeur. (Opéra Royal de Versailles, 9 March 2018). sorry to hear that. Glover first conducted at Oxford as a student, in a production of Athalia, and went on to conduct the first performance in modern times of Cavalli's Rosinda for the Oxford University Opera Club in October 1973. Francisco Cervelli (born March 6, 1986) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher.He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, and Miami Marlins from 2008 through 2020.. I believe H is; I’m not, as am just this minute arriving back in town from a family funeral and need some downtime after a couple of crazy weeks. Cavalli was born in 1602, not long after the earliest operas were written. Jove (Alejandro Meerapfel) and Aeolus (Dominique Visse), Cavalli’s operas have little time for heroes. Change ). [4] She conducted the world premiere of Il Giardino by Stephen Oliver at the Batignano Festival in 1977.[3]. Thus he received a PhD in Music History from Princeton University in 1980, with a dissertation entitled “The Autograph Manuscripts of Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676),” about the life work of an early opera composer. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. He believes that … He’s a weak, vacillating, dreamy creature who only lifts a weapon once in the entire opera, and that’s to threaten a woman. And so divine meddling brings a great storm, that blows the Argo off-course, Golden Fleece and all, and washes the Argonauts up on the shores of the Iberus. But Jason’s romantic adventures prove harder to shake off than he anticipates, when it transpires that his secret lover is none other than Medea, Queen of Colchis. He has a very good voice, but the style just seemed completely inappropriate. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. He came from a prestigious family; his grandfather, Luigi Einaudi, was President of Italy between 1948 and 1955 and his father, Giulio Einaudi, was a publisher who worked with some renowned authors, such as Italo Calvino and Primo Levi. As in Ol’ Blue Eyes. They returned to Penang after marrying. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The book investigates the extent to which the women surrounding Mozart – his mother, sister, wife and his wife's sisters – influenced his development as a composer. ... in La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli. His Delizie contenti was predictably gorgeous, but I’d like to hear him record it one day when he’s firing on all cylinders. Sit back and marvel. Glover was a BBC governor from 1990 to 1995. Still, if you have a comedy nurse in Cavalli, she’s always after the young men. But Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) was right there with the Master in time and place. 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