I’ll be hard to Handel, I promise you that
For my early self-birthday gift “Trove Thursday” offers a Handel-orgy of rarely done works.
Emmanuelle de Negri
7 pieces since 2014 — in 5 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Opera Lafayette.
7
pieces
5
roles
2
companies
13
years
By company
Role Agilea
Role Hébé
Quand sur la plage
What can you say, other than that everything was fab?
Role Héro
Variations on salon themes
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.
Role L'Amour
Platée du jour
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?
Role Palès
Terracotta puppets of the gods
Dancing sheep! Flying sheep! Flying sheep who dance!
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).