Les Arts Florissants present two ravishing programs in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
What can you say, other than that everything was fab?
In French opera—until Pelleas et Mélisande anyway—there is always a great deal of dance; often, dance rather than song is the main event.
Dancing sheep! Flying sheep! Flying sheep who dance!
For my early self-birthday gift “Trove Thursday” offers a Handel-orgy of rarely done works.
I was, to my astonishment, quite bored.
What must have raced through the mind of the none-too-comely Spanish Infanta when she learned that the opera to be performed during the celebrations for her 1745 wedding to the French Dauphin revolved around the comeuppance of an ugly yet vain water nymph tricked into believing Jupiter was her ardent suitor?
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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