Pinchgut Opera performs Bach's glorious Easter Oratorio featuring young soloists Alexandra Oomens and Anna Dowsley, followed by the rarely-heard Thunder Ode of Telemann. In 1755 Lisbon was virtually ...

Now, 300 years after that premiere, the work comes to the Linbury Theatre – the first Telemann ever to be staged by The Royal Opera. A comic two-hander, it is presented complete – minus the Handel – ...

Lucie Skeaping looks at the operas of Telemann. It's said he composed more than 50 works for the stage, although only 35 of them appear in his catalogue. Most of them were premiered in either Leipzig ...

The New York City Opera has spent the season reinventing itself from a large company with a large theater to a peripatetic one presenting small works. Perhaps it was apt that they closed their season ...

It feels a bit like coming home: René Jacobs conducting B’Rock, in a grand Baroque vocal repertoire piece no less. The soloists, a group of some of the best baroque opera singers of the moment, have ...

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Telemann wrote some 50 operas, of which all but one (a little comedy called Pimpinone) have languished in obscurity since his death in 1767. This disc attempts a reappraisal of the rest of his ...

In this May 10, 2012 photo provided by the New York City Opera, Nicholas Pallesen is in the role of Pluto, with Catherine Miller as Thanatos at a dress rehearsal of the New York City Opera's Orpheus, ...

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 ...