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The Best of Opera Scholarship Comes to Life-Experience Baerenreiter Critical Editions on Stage this Summer!

Jul. 08, 2010

As a departure from our steady digest of news on our contemporary music catalogues, we're happy to offer you a chance to catch up on activity surrounding some works from our classic back catalogue with a brief overview of Baerenreiter's critical editions and classic master works in performances at festivals around the country this summer. We hope you can catch a performance near you!

Johann Strauss
Niko-Polka
Josef Strauss
Pêle-mêle
Minnesota Orchestra
Sommerfest:  A Night in Vienna
Friday, July 9 at 8pm
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis MN
Link to event website

Handel
Tolomeo, Re d’Egitto 
Ed.Michael Pacholke
Glimmerglass Opera
July 18, 23, 31, and August 8, 12, 14, 17 and 23
Alice Busch Opera Theater, Cooperstown, NY
Link to event website

Esther
Ed. Howard Serwer
Duet - 'Who calls my parting soul from death?'
Aspen Music Festival
Conductor-Nicholas Kraemer
Saturday, August 7, 10am
Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, CO
Link to event website

Experience two operas from the Halle Handel Edition- complete critical editions of Handel’s works edited by the George Frideric Handel Society. This complete critical edition serves the needs of scholars and performers by drawing on all available sources and the latest musicological findings to create superb performance materials.

Janáček
Taras Bulba
Ed. Jan Hanus and Jarmil Burghauser
Music Academy of the West - Academy Festival Orchestra
Conductor-Peter Oundjian
Saturday, August 14 at 8pm
Granada Theater, Santa Barbara, CA
Link to event website

Mozart
Cosi fan tutte
Ed. Faye Ferguson and Wolfgang Rehm
Ravinia Festival
Thursday, August 5 at 7pm and Saturday August 7 at 1pm
Conductor-James Conlon
Martin Theater, Highland Park, IL
Link to event website

Le nozze di Figaro
Ed. Ludwig Finscher
Ravinia Festival
Friday, August 6 at 7pm and Sunday August 8 at 1pm
Conductor - James Conlon
Martin Theater, Highland Park, IL
Link to event website

Both operas are part of Baerenreiter’s New Mozart Edition, critical editions of Mozart’s entire oeuvre, which offer researchers and performers unimpeachable texts based on all the available sources (generally Mozart's autograph manuscripts). The New Mozart Edition is regarded as one of the supreme achievements of Mozart scholarship of our time; modern performances of Mozart's music are unthinkable without them.

Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice-selections
Ed. Ludwig Finscher
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Tuesday, August 10 at 8pm and Wednesday, August 11 at 8pm
Conductor – Louis Langrée
Avery Fisher Hall
Link to event website

Baerenreiter’s catalogue ofthe complete works ofChristoph Willibald Gluckpresents the works of the great operatic reformer in a scholarly-critical edition, based on modern editorial principles and drawing on all available sources.   It not only meets the demands of scholarship, but also offers scores for authentic performance.

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