This month’s pick has been selected by violist and TECA fellow, Kyle Miller
We met with Lucy Crowe during our recording of Rodelinda. We talked about what she got up to during lockdown, our upcoming programme, Handel – The Italian on the 9th of October, and realising your dreams.
Louise Hogan offers a wonderful insight into our recent tour to East Asia
Handel’s Rivalries and Musical Rebellion It’s easy to think …
Imagine picking all the best bits of your favourite pop, rock, hip-hop, and jazz stars and combining them into one fantastical package, a bit like your fantasy football team. How great would that be?
There are plenty of mysteries out there in the musical world: the two heads inside Haydn’s tomb, the enigma behind Elgar’s variations. But what of the gruesome murder of poor Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)?
It’s the mother of all bad hair days for Scylla in Leclair’s only opera. Based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Scylla is just a nymph going about her business. Not especially interested in love, she rejects the advances of shepherds and anyone else that thinks they’re in with a shot of winning her heart.
Secret agent, prisoner, playwright and poet. Clearly there was never a dull moment in the life of this 17th century International Woman of Mystery.