That is the joy of performance: counter-tenor Francis Gush on his approach to making his role debut in the title role of Handel's Giulio Cesare with English Touring Opera tonight, plus rare Stradella with Barber Opera, and how working as a builder during lockdown helped his return to opera. My interview:

https://www.planethugill.com/2023/02/a-bit-of-whirlwind-counter-tenor.html

@baroquemusic
#interview #Handel #BaroqueOpera #Baroque

Happy to see another article based on my MA thesis in print. This time, it is in Dutch and consists of a comparison between the representation of Polyphemus in Handel's aria "Fra l'ombre" and the earlier representation in Bononcini's aria "Vanarella, Pazarella".

"Van onbehouwen bruut tot broze nachtvlinder: de intertekstuele ontwikkeling van de cycloop Polifemo in twee barokopera's."

Read it online:

https://www.academia.edu/96026240/Van_onbehouwen_bruut_tot_broze_nachtvlinder_de_intertekstuele_ontwikkeling_van_de_cycloop_Polifemo_in_twee_barokoperas

#musicology #baroque #baroqueopera #handel #bononcini #polifemo

#nowlistening https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=YSuumdP9Gyw

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"Saul (Handel) | Full opera | #GlyndebourneOpenHouse" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/WzFCpVk0cZk

Till the 6th January 2023, for the Twelve Nights

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#classicalmusic
#baroqueopera
#georgfriedrichhändel
#saul
#glyndebourne
#IvorBolton
#OrchestraOfTheAgeEnlinghtenment

«Lascia ch’io pianga» from Händel’s «Rinaldo». This video is from an early music concert with Bourbon Baroque and dancer Caroline Copeland in Louisville, KY in 2008.

#baroque #baroqueDance #baroqueMusic #earlyMusic #baroqueOpera #RinaldoOpera #GeorgeFridericHandel #GeorgFriedrichHändel #music #opera #operaBubble #BourbonBaroque #CarolineCopeland #Louisville

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNZF_1S1I_U

Oh brave new interface, that has such people in it!

I'm a professor of #Philosophy and #Classics at #umich, specializing in Greek and Roman philosophy, esp. the philosophy of mind (#intentionality, #consciousness, #MindBody, #perception). I have published mostly on #Aristotle and the #Stoics, but have interests from #Parmenides and #Gorgias through #Augustine.

I love #BaroqueOpera, #KingCrimson, #Calligraphy (broad edge and #Copperplate), and the game of #Go.