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OPERA IN CONCERT IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE A triple compact disc
release of George Friderick Handel’s RINALDO As performed by Opera in Concert
Catherine Affleck, Kimberly
Barber, Nicole Bower, Melinda Delorme, Jennifer Enns Modolo, Barbara
Hannigan, Marion Newman Giles Tomkins, Sean Watson, Laura
Whalen, Lenard Whiting with Aradia Ensemble, Conductor Kevin Mallon This stunning
recording from Naxos Canada had its genesis at the Opera in Concert
performances of Handel’s RINALDO on March 27 and 28, 2004. The cast
re-assembled for two separate sessions in late June and early August of the
same year at Grace Church on the Hill, chosen for its excellent acoustics and
sound recording atmosphere. Renowned
mezzo-soprano Kimberly Barber in the lead role of Rinaldo heads an all-Canadian cast of vocal luminaries including
sopranos Laura Whelan and Barbara Hannigan, mezzo-sopranos Marion Newman and
Jennifer Enns Modolo, and baritone Sean Watson under conductor Kevin Mallon
leading the Aradia Ensemble. Opera in Concert made
special arrangements for the international release of the RINALDO CD
recording to coincide with its 2005-06 Season performance of the North
American premiere of Vivaldi’s LA GRISELDA on Sunday, January 29, 2006
at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Opera in Concert
Patrons can obtain a copy of the RINALDO CD at local music stores, from Naxos
Canada (visit www.naxos.com)
or call the Opera in Concert administration office 416-922-2147 for more information and additional assistance. Visit these following
links to see a review: Visit this following
links to hear excerpts in MP3 format: Also look for Opera in Concert’s double compact disk of Rameau’s CASTOR ET POLLUX An opera in 5 Acts,
1754 version
Rameau revised his
1737 opera CASTOR ET POLLUX in 1754 at the height of the raging debate, the
so-called Querelle des Bouffons, over the relative merits of French and
Italian opera. Long regarded as Ranieau’s crowning achievement, it won
immediate popular success, not only striking a significant blow for French
music over Italian music but for the supporters of Rameau who looked to him
to take over Lully’s mantle as composer of the French national style.
Whereas the operas of Lully had been limited to simple subjects based around
romantic love, Rameau took French opera to a greater level of complexity both
in subject matter and in musical style. With its wider emotional range and
dissonant harmonies, CASTOR ET POLLUX is a tense drama of brotherly and
romantic love that brings its own heroic rescue of Castor from the
Underworld, as Pollux encounters the devils and monsters that try to bar his
way. Opera in Concert
Patrons can obtain a copy of the CASTOR ET POLLUX CD at local music stores,
from Naxos Canada (visit www.naxos.com)
or call the Opera in Concert administration office 416-922-2147 for more
information and additional assistance. Visit these following
links to see a review: RAMEAU Castor and Pollux NAXOS 8_660118-19 [JW] Classical CD
Reviews- March 2004 MusicWeb(UK) Telegraph Arts Classical CDs of the week Luis Venegas de Henestrosa, Beethoven and others |
