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Baroque Gender Stories
Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano), Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)
Lautten Compagney, Wolfgang Katschner
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
Wolfgang Katschner and Lautten Compagney provide lean, skilfully balanced and astute theatrical support. Clever artistic programming means that each half starts with a striking overture and...
Baroque Gender Stories
Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano), Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)
Lautten Compagney, Wolfgang Katschner
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
Wolfgang Katschner and Lautten Compagney provide lean, skilfully balanced and astute theatrical support. Clever artistic programming means that each half starts with a striking overture and...
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Presto Editor's ChoiceJune 2019
December 2019
Wolfgang Katschner and Lautten Compagney provide lean, skilfully balanced and astute theatrical support. Clever artistic programming means that each half starts with a striking overture and culminates in an engaging duet, via a series of vividly contrasting musical styles, orchestral colours, speeds and moods.
June 2019
This is a fascinating concept on several levels if you’ve even a passing interest in the highways and byways of eighteenth-century opera: as well as offering an opportunity to compare and contrast various composers’ responses to two of Metastasio’s ‘most fortunate children’ (Semiramide and Siroe), the programme explores the fluidity of gender-identity on the baroque stage and occasionally plays fast and loose on its own terms (Zazzo, for instance, taking on an aria for Handel’s Bradamante).