Valeria Vescina – Seen and Heard International

Exceptional Don Carlo at Grange Park Opera

29/06/201908/06/2019 by Valeria Vescina

United Kingdom Grange Park Opera 2019 – Verdi, Don Carlo: Soloists, Grange Park Opera Chorus, English National Opera Orchestra / Gianluca Marcianò (conductor). West Horsley Place, Surrey. 6.6.2019. (VV)

Marina Costa-Jackson (Elisabeth) and Leonardo Capalbo (Don Carlos)
(c) Robert Workman

UK Première of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Barbican

16/08/202021/02/2018 by Valeria Vescina

United Kingdom Jake Heggie, Dead Man Walking: Soloists, BBC Singers, Singers from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Finchley Children’s Music Group, BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Mark Wigglesworth (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 20.2.2018. (VV)

Jake Heggie’s *Dead Man Walking* featuring Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen) (c) Mark Allan/Barbican

L’Arpeggiata Reveal the Inventiveness of the Baroque

12/12/201703/12/2017 by Valeria Vescina

United Kingdom Luigi Rossi, Maurizio Cazzati and Lorenzo Allegri, L’Arpeggiata: L’Arpeggiata ensemble / Christina Pluhar (director), Wigmore Hall, London 1.12.2017. (VV)

Giuseppina Bridelli_foto Francesco Squeglia_4432 — Giuseppina Bridelli (c) Francesco Squeglia

At the V&A: Tim Watts’ Musically and Dramatically Compelling Kepler’s Trial

16/11/201711/11/2017 by Valeria Vescina

United Kingdom Tim Watts, Kepler’s Trial (opera preceded by panel discussion with Prof Ulinka Rublack, Tim Watts, Aura Satz, Dame Marina Warner, Prof Simon Schaffer): soloists, chorus and orchestra / Graham Walker (conductor). Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 9.11.2017. (VV)

IMG_4373 square — Cerys Purser (Katharina) in *Kepler’s Trial* (c) Aura Satz

Margherita d’Anjou at Festival della Valle d’Itria – a staging of historical interest

12/08/201707/08/2017 by Valeria Vescina

Italy Festival della Valle d’Itria [3] – Meyerbeer, Margherita d’Anjou: Soloists of the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia / Fabio Luisi (conductor), Palazzo Ducale, Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca, Puglia, 2.8.2017. (VV)

Margherita d'Anjou © Paolo Conserva — *Margherita d’Anjou* © Paolo Conserva

Festival della Valle d’Itria’s Orlando Furioso: musical and visual magic

08/08/201702/08/2017 by Valeria Vescina

Italy Festival della Valle d’Itria [2] – Vivaldi, Orlando Furioso: Soloists and Chorus of the Festival della Valle. I Barocchisti / Diego Fasolis (conductor), Palazzo Ducale, Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca, Puglia. 31.7.2017. (VV)

Le Donne Vendicate (The Women’s Revenge): an exciting glimpse of the Enlightenment

02/08/201729/07/2017 by Valeria Vescina

Italy Festival della Valle d’Itria [1] – Piccinni, Le Donne Vendicate: Soloists of the Accademia del Belcanto Rodolfo Celletti and of the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra ICO della Magna Grecia, Giorgio d’Alonzo (harpsicord) / Ferdinando Sulla (conductor), Masseria Palesi, Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca, Puglia, 28.7.2017. (VV)

piccinni-68 — Piccinni’s *Le Donne Vendicate* (c) Festival della Valle d’Itria

A Riveting Kokoschka’s Doll from Sir John Tomlinson and Counterpoise

09/03/201924/07/2017 by Valeria Vescina

The Art of Love: Alma Mahler’s Life and Music: Zemlinsky, Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Anton von Webern, D. Matthews. Arranged by David Matthews (‘Erntelied’ co-arranged with Colin Matthews), with linking texts by Barry Millington. Rozanna Madylus (mezzo-soprano). Counterpoise ensemble: Fenella Humphreys (violin), Deborah Calland (trumpet), Kyle Horch (saxophone/clarinet), Iain Farrington (piano).

Kokoschka’s Doll: John Casken (composer), Sir John Tomlinson (bass), Counterpoise ensemble (as above), text by John Casken and Barry Millington. Cheltenham Music Festival, 9.7.2017.

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