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.
7 pieces since 2014 — in 5 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Opera Lafayette.
For my early self-birthday gift “Trove Thursday” offers a Handel-orgy of rarely done works.
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.
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?
Dancing sheep! Flying sheep! Flying sheep who dance!
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