Faustina Bordoni. Legend.
It was a pamphlet that went out to the London public immediately after a performance of Bononcini’s Astianatte at King’s Theatre in 1727 describing an onstage fight between the opera’s leading ladies: A most horrid.
Author: Anne Schuster Hunter
Fresh Take: Tempesta’s Bach Trio Sonatas
The six trio sonatas by J. S. Bach BWV 525-530, are special—famously so. “One can’t say enough about their beauty,” wrote Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Bach’s first biographer, as early as 1802. “They’re little masterpieces, compact.
Ostinato Gets Its Closeup
Tempesta di Mare’s upcoming show puts ostinato in the title. But don’t expect it to be a headliner. Rather, organizing a show around that hard-working ostinato gives Tempesta the chance to gather some of the.
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.
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?.
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.
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.
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,.
Venice’s Improbable All-Girl baroque Bands
Ah, Venice. The Rialto, the Grand Canal, the Cathedral of San Marco, the piazzas, mists, stones, beaches, veils of golden light, “La Serenissima.” The city holds a special place in the imagination. In Death in.