Händel Versus Bononcini
Tenor Marco Angioloni, the ensemble Il Groviglio and the motto of this year's Handel Festival
Opera highlights by G. B. Bononcini and G. F. Handel // Musical direction: Marco Angioloni // Soloist: Marco Angioloni (tenor) // Il Groviglio
30 €
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“Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!” – This quotation from a poem published in a London newspaper in 1725 targets the rivalry between the opera composers G. Bononcini and G. F. Handel. When Bononcini, 15 years Handel’s senior, came to England in 1720 after years of travel to Rome via Venice and Vienna, Handel’s Royal Academy of Music, the first London opera company, which gave us Giulio Cesare, Ottone and Rodelind, had already got off to an excellent start in 1719. But Bononcini also knew how to make Italian opera seria appeal to London audiences. Operatic highlights on the theme of love and jealousy, triumph and revenge, wild despair and tender devotion are on the programme. With tenor Marco Angioloni, this concert impressively brings to the stage a somewhat neglected vocal register in Baroque opera, supported by the stylistically skilled musicians of the ensemble Il Groviglio. In a review of the CD A Baroque Tenor released in February 2022 in Opera Wire, Alan Neilson wrote: “However, what really appeals about his singing is his attention to the details of the text, with which he fully engages”. We are looking forward to the Halle debut of this young, up-and-coming tenor.