Fun in the Sun
"Performing this music is just really fun", says Neapolitan Christmas soprano Rebecca Myers. Which is totally as it should be. It’s from Naples! For centuries—no, millennia!—Naples, a.k.a. “The City of a Thousand Faces,” has been.
The naples sound
What makes baroque music from Naples sound recognizably different from music from Venice and Rome, the other main centers of Italian baroque style? Much mention is made on forums like these—program books, liner notes and.
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Handel, Harrison and Sheeran seem to take their inspirations not out of thin air, but out of the aural soup that flows nonstop in the sensory environment. Is it stealing? borrowing? or something in between?.
Artist Spotlight: Mads Torres
Tempesta di Mare commissioned Mads Torres to create the lead artwork for our 2024-25 Season. Catch up with Mads in a conversation they had with our Coordinator of Production and Administration, Sarah Giampietro: What made.
Let’s taste the sweet pleasures, today we live
April may well be the sweetest month here in Philadelphia. Especially this April. And the city’s many boutique bakeries are answering the challenge with a plethora of sweet temptations
Judith and the Long Life of Righteous Rage
The story of Judith and Holofernes can only be called a Ripping Yarn. Although it’s 2000 years old, first having appeared in the first Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, 100 BCE, it’s a story.
Instrument Spotlight: The Theorbo
The undisputed giraffe of the baroque orchestra is the theorbo, that double-necked thing that has the body of a lute, is plucked like a lute, but has a ridiculous extension that makes the instrument stick.
MATCHLESS & UNMATCHED
" Some day, I hope this work will make me famous...". When Telemann wrote this in 1732 it was an unexpected comment: he was already famous.
Artist Spotlight: Kately Towsley
Tempesta di Mare commissioned Kately Towsley to create the lead artwork for our 2023-24 Season. Catch up with Kately in a conversation she had with our Coordinator of Production and Administration, Sarah Giampietro: What made.
A river, a king, A Water Music
A sweet story circulated about Water Music during George Frideric Handel’s lifetime. It’s sweet, but unfortunately it’s also not true—the dates don’t work out. It’s worth taking a moment to give it a look, though,.