George Frideric Handel (1685—1759) was a bit of a larger-than- life character whose music, and its importance, could stand a bit of Reason, that period between the 1620s and the 1780s when the social, ...
Georg Frederic Handel turned to the poetry of John Milton for his 1740 oratorio “L’Allego, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.” It will be performed by the Upper Valley Baroque Orchestra and Choir, conducted ...
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Agreed: Mirth, with thee I mean to live. The chorus sings these words at the exultant finish of Mark Morris’s “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato,” which transforms the Handel oratorio into a ...
Following his takeover from the self-dishonoured Gardiner in a rapturously received Proms performance of Berlioz’s Les Troyens, Dinis Sousa (pictured below) now proves he’s the right conductor for ...
Merriment and Milton are hardly synonymous, but the poet who penned Paradise Lost also inspired George Frideric Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, which concludes "Mirth, with thee we ...
In 1988, when Mark Morris became the director of dance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the first work he choreographed was the landmark “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato,” set to ...
Mark Morris interview conducted by Elisa Lichtenbaum of WNET. Choreographer Mark Morris first garnered international fame for L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato when it debuted at the Théâtre ...
“As steals the morn upon the night,” from Handel’s “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato”; with Sandrine Piau, soprano; Topi Lehtipuu, tenor; and Stefano Montanari leading the Accademia Bizantina ...