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“Norma” in Gelsenkirchen

The Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen is the first opera house to stage Bellini’s masterpiece Norma using the new Bärenreiter edition by Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi, following on from Cecilia Bartoli’s Salzburg Festival production. The director is Elisabeth Stöppler, and conductor is Valtteri Rauhalammi, to be followed by Rasmus Baumann in later performances. The new production of Norma receives its first performance on 5 March 2016.

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Reality and illusion. Francesco Cavalli’s “Il Xerse”

Cavalli’s Il Xerse was one of the most successful operas of its day. Now, the turbulent, semi-tragic, semi-comic work is published in its Italian and Paris versions as part of the Cavalli edition.

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“Samson et Dalila” in the new Bärenreiter edition at the Paris Opera

Following on from the first concert performance of Andreas Jacob’s critical new edition of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila in November 2015 at the Theater Basel, the staged premiere on 4 October takes place in no less a theatre than the Opéra National de Paris. It is this first new production of this opera at Opéra national de Paris for 25 years. At the helm is chief conductor Philippe Jordan, and the director is the much sought-after Italian Damiano Michieletto. Aleksandr Antonenko and Anita Rachvelishivili in the title roles are arousing high expectations, not only amongst French opera fans.

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First performances using the Handel Edition in Göttingen and Halle

(30.4.2015) This year not one, but two opera volumes from the Halle Handel Edition will be put to the test at both the Handel Festivals in Germany. The Göttingen Festival opens on 15 May 2015 with a new production of Agrippina directed by Laurence Dale and conducted by Laurence Cummings. John E. Sawyer is responsible for the long-awaited new edition. The performance material contains the Venetian version from the 1709 premiere, as well as additional alternative music numbers or numbers not used then. The Halle Festival follows on 5 June 2015 with a new production of the seldom-performed opera Lucio Cornelio Silla of 1713, which Terence Best has edited for the HHA. The Handel Festival Orchestra is conducted by Enrico Onofri, and the director is Stephen Lawless. Two days later, on 7 June 2015, Fabio Biondi conducts his Ensemble “Europa Galante” in a concert performance of Handel’s last stage work Imeneo, with a top-class line-up of soloists. The Dublin version of 1742 will be performed, which Donald Burrows reconstructed in 2002 for the relevant HHA volume.

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The triumph of comedy. Antonio Cesti’s “L’Orontea” – a revival in Frankfurt

Antonio Cesti’s opera L’Orontea of 1656 is back on the stage. Oper Frankfurt is including the witty piece in its repertoire, using the new edition by Álvaro Torrente for the first time.

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Nobody marries and the villains aren’t punished. Francesco Cavalli’s opera “Orione”

Cavalli’s Orione is great fun, precisely because the opera differs from what we might expect from a mid-17th century work. The Urtext edition published as part of the Cavalli Complete Edition by Bärenreiter offers a starting-point for entertaining performances.

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Handel’s opera “Lucio Cornelio Silla” before its rediscovery

The circumstances surrounding the composition of Handel’s opera Lucio Cornelio Silla are not clear. But because of its interesting characters and outstanding music, it deserves a new chance. The Handel Festival Halle is reviving the work this summer.

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Music theatre

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“My music is fundamentally political in expression” - Paul Dessau’s operatic output
Less theatrical, but more successful – Rameau’s “Dardanus”
An army commander torn between two women. Handel’s opera “Alessandro”
Purified Beauty. Handel’s first oratorio in the Halle Handel Edition
A vocal challenge, then as now. Gluck’s “Atto di Bauci e Filemone”
George Frideric Handel’s “Fernando” in Halle
Arcadia breathes a sigh of relief. Handel’s “Il pastor fido” in the Halle Handel Edition
Murderous love. The chamber opera „Thérèse“ by Philipp Maintz and Otto Katzameier
Masterly role characterisation. Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” in the Halle Handel Edition
Reconciled: French and Italian styles. Rameau’s „Les Paladins“ or the mixture of genres
Tragicomic despot. Cavalli’s opera „Il Xerse“ in a new edition
Drama and passion. Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera „Antigono“
“Violetter Schnee”: Beat Furrer’s new opera for the Berlin Staatsoper
Comedy and musical verismo. Perspectives on composing in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
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