Isabela Díaz has great fun as chambermaid Vespetta and Grisha Martirosyan is laugh-out-loud funny as nice-but-dim Pimpinone in a tale of sexual politics not a million miles from our own time Spare a ...
Georg Philipp Telemann’s overlooked intermezzo “Pimpinone” is being presented by the Boston Early Music Festival this weekend. By Oussama Zahr In the standard repertoire, comic opera more or less ...
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Pimpinone - Telemann - Linbury at the ROH
In 1725, Georg Philipp Telemann premiered Pimpinone in Hamburg, delivering a sharp, comedic intermezzo that captured the changing tastes of 18th-century opera audiences. Pimpinone pokes fun at social ...
Sophie Gilpin’s staging of Telemann’s comedy is funny and thought-provoking While highly regarded in his time, the music of the extremely prolific German composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) is ...
Can an obscure opera from 1725 with a cast of just two, a bare-bones plot bordering on the absurd and a production using early instruments and historic performance techniques reach a contemporary ...
GREAT BARRINGTON — As the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center audience shuffled back from intermission, the orchestra began to tune up and our masked harlequin got to work. In the person of ...
Our classical reporter continues to send us reviews from the Buxton Festival, read his views on the opera Pimpinone... Time was, when you went to the opera, you really got your money’s worth. Three ...
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