Happy, happy solo woman
There’s nothing unusual about casting a woman in Solomon‘s titular role.
Harry Bicket
43 pieces since 2007 — at 8 companies, most often at The English Concert.
43
pieces
8
companies
20
years
5 pieces as English Concert — stats above show all coverage for Harry Bicket.
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Mainly in the plain
I wonder why many New Yorkers have been led to believe that the only Handel conductor in the world is Harry Bicket.
Tour de force
In their realization of Alcina, Harry Bicket and his ensemble recreated a dramatically vivid and musically nuanced character study out of the opera’s central figures.
Witchy women
You’d think after nearly 40 years of opera going I’d have seen almost everything.. .twice. Yet I found myself at LA Opera Tuesday night for a special presentation of George Frideric Handel’s Alcina which was my first live experience with one of his operas.
Less than hero
Iestyn Davies’s theatrical blandness combined with his vocal unsuitability for the role left a hole at the center of Rinaldo.