Joyce DiDonato probed Dido’s desire and anguish with characteristic subtlety, while the Pomo d’Oro Choir were superb in Carissimi’s Jephte Part of Il Pomo d’Oro’s current European tour, this concert ...
VOX — The Rob Seible Singers will present the oratorio “Jephte” by Baroque composer Giacomo Carissimi at the Villa de Matel, 6510 Lawndale in Houston on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 pm. Second on the ...
Carissimi’s Historia di Jepthe was probably composed in the 1640s for one of Rome’s confraternities that sponsored oratorios in Latin. Voces Suaves, directed from the keyboard by Michele Vannelli, ...
The Baroque era was the heyday of the oratorio and Passion: vocal works with orchestra, usually sacred, usually dramatic (soloists represent specific characters), usually not staged (no sets, costumes ...