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| Patricia Petitbon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lissabon |
Last night there was a live broadcast from Aix-en-Provence of Mozart´s The Marriage of Figaro on the Franco-German ARTE channel. It was again one of those performances which one prefers to listen to - not watch. (Like so often happens nowadays, the opera had got the "modernizing treatment", making it impossible to watch).
However, the orchestra, the choir and the soloists, particularly the lovely Patricia Petitbon as Susanna, were all outstanding.
Petitbon, this delicious treat from the French musical patisserie, was - at least for me - the highlight of the ARTE evening. In a brief, but all the more convincing program, recorded at the Gulbenkian Foundation hall in Lissabon, broadcast before the opera, Petibon was able to show in just two Händel arias (Tornami, a vogheggiar and Ah!, mio cor from the opera Alcina) how a world class singer is able to mesmerize her audience.
Hopefully the entire Lissabon concert, in which Patricia Petitbon performed together with the superb Venice Baroque Orchestra, will soon be available on dvd and blu ray!
Here you can listen to Patricia Petitbon and the Venice Baroue Orchestra performing Ah!, mio cor:
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