Word: monteverdi
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...great early composers. Bach. Telemann. Scarlatti. Monteverdi. Pachelbel...
...quirks of 20th century music is that Italian opera should have gone into such decline. Italy, after all, gave birth to bel canto, and is the homeland of Rossini, Bellini and Verdi. Yet the effervescent melodic line that began with Monteverdi during the Renaissance exhausted itself with the death of Giacomo Puccini in 1924, and has been only fitfully revived by such contemporary figures as the late Luigi Dallapiccola. There is, it seems, a lost generation of Italian opera composers. But what happened to them...
...audience who might not grasp every nuance of archaic Mandarin. Sills resolved to take a cue from what she witnessed. The idea was reinforced when the Canadian Opera in Toronto pioneered the use of English captions in its productions of Richard Strauss's Elektra and Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea...
...fall-over, lava hot." The sense of excitement is immediate and infectious, and the original-instruments movement is now beginning to have an effect on the way standard repertory is performed. "On instruments, one hears the composers almost for the first time," says John Eliot Gardiner, the leader of Monteverdi Choir and English Soloists. "Works are being revealed what they really were...
...Poppea can still hold the stage -for all of its nearly four-hour length. Last week the Banchetto Musicale and the Boston Lyric Opera joined forces on a production that was as faithful to both the spirit and the notation of Monteverdi's score as one is likely to find. The opera was the high point of the Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition, which brought musicologists, performers and instrument makers to the city for a week-long conference on the proper performance of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. Abandoned now is the practice of booming Bach...