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This Week At The Classical Station
Thursday, July 23, 2020
This evening the Thursday Night Opera House presents George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante . Set in Scotland, it was the first new opera Handel presented at London’s newly opened opera house at Covent Garden. Based on several cantos from Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso, it opened on January 8, 1735. Among the novelties of the production was the introduction of dance sequences, a first for London.
Prince Ariodante (mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter in a “trouser” role) is engaged to marry Ginevra (soprano Lynne Dawson), daughter of the King of Scotland (bass Denis Sedov), but has a rival in the Duke of Albany, Polinesso (contralto Ewa Podles in the other “trouser” role), who wants to become King and cons Ginevra’s attendant Dalinda (soprano Verónica Cangemi) into helping him contrive false evidence that Ginevra has lost her virginity. Ariodante’s brother Lurcanio (tenor Richard Croft), also outwitted by Polinesso, becomes enraged and offers to fight any knight who dares defend Ginevra’s sullied reputation. When her own father turns against her, Ginevra not surprisingly goes mad. But when her supposedly dead fiancé Ariodante shows up to defend her (having learned the truth), t
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15 LGBTQ+ composers in classical music history that you probably already know
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Edward Benjamin Britten is one of the finest composers of English operas, choral works, and songs, many of which he wrote for his life partner, tenor Sir Peter Pears.
Britten started writing music as young as nine, when he wrote an oratorio. He studied under Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Arthur Benjamin among others, and was also a fine pianist.
His ground-breaking operas, which include Peter Grimes (1945), and The Turn of the Screw (1954) – and his famous War Requiem – tackle contemporaneous issues around psychology and post-war trauma, as well his own homosexuality, which was illegal in Britten’s lifetime.
Britten founded the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk with Pears and librettist Eric Crozier.
Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Ethel Smyth was a prolific composer and an active member of the women’s suffrage movement, and she made no secret of her relationships with women.
Born in South-East London, Smyth studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and there met composers that included Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Clara Schumann and Brahms. Her best-known works are the opera The Wreckers and her Mass in D.
Her 1911 song, ‘The March of the Women’, which had lyrics by C
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