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Opera Productions, Old and New 1. If it’s baroque… Handel: Jephtha (Claus Guth, director )

Claudio Monteverdi: La Favola di Orfeo (1607) As Act II opens, Orfeo is relaxing among the shepherds and shepherdesses, rejoicing in the happiness of his recent marriage to Euridice, who is ofgstage with her friends. Poussin: Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice (c.1650)

Gilbert Deflo Barcelona Liceu, 2003 Trisha Brown Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1998 Barrie Kosky Berlin Komische Oper, 2012

Rameau: Les Indes galantes (Paris, 1999; Andrei Serban, director)

Who Controls What? Yannick Nézet - Séguin Robert Carsen The Conductor The Stage Director

Start with an opera score …

How would it have been performed at the tjme of its compositjon?

But tjme passes. What has changed in terms of: • musical understanding? • theater technology? • availability of singers? • audience expectatjons? • the efgect of other media? • politjcal and moral perspectjve?

Every productjon is an act of interpretatjon, of bridging the past to the present. Productjons of Handel ’ s Tamerlano

Baroque Theater at Cesky Krumlov

Baroque Theater Mechanics

A Pastoral Scene

J-B. Lully: Atys

Baroque Opera

Handel: Giulio Cesare, Act I The castrato “ Senesino, ” the fjrst Caesar

The Castrati: A Caricature

Opera Productions Old and New 1. If it’s baroque…

Handel: Orlando, Act I Fammi combattere, mostre e tifei, novi trofei se vuoi dal mio valor. Go bid me fjght monsters and wild beasts, new trophies, if you want, of my love. Muraglie abbatere, disfare incanti, se vuoi ch'io vanti darti prove d'amor. Batulements to overturn, spells to unbind, If you want me to prove my love to you.

Handel: Giulio Cesare, Act III Da tempeste il legno infranto, se poi salvo giunge in porto non sa più che desiar. A storm - batuered vessel, if it at last arrives safely in port, has nothing lefu to desire.

Handel: Alcina, Act I O s’apre al riso, Whether smiling, O parla o tace, speaking, or silent, Ha un non so che your noble face Il tuo bel viso is a temptatjon Che troppo piace hard to withstand Caro al mio cor. and dear to my heart. Il primo sguardo The fjrst glimpse I caught of your eyes Che in voi fissai pierced me with rays Provar mi fè of brilliant love. Vezzosi rai.

Handel: Alcina (Aix - en - Provence, 2015; Katje Mitchell, director )

A Staged Messiah Theater an der Wien, 2010 (Claus Guth, director )

Opera Productions, Old and New If it’s Baroque… Handel: Semele (Seatule; Tomer Zvulun director ; Erhard Rom designer )