HANDEL'S AGRIPPINA MODERN INTERPRETATIONS AND THE
ROLE OF COUNTERTENORS [Format
Kindle]
Handel's
Agrippina was composed for the Carnival of Venice in 1709. It counts three male
voices in the countertenor pitch and range in those days most often held by
castratos. Centering on Jean-Claude Malgoire's 2004 production first to come
out on DVD, comparing it with two other productions on DVD that came out in the
following years, but also with the recent production of Handel's Faramondo, we
study the four different dramatic values of countertenors in Handel's operas.
This leads us to an in-depth study of the re-emergence of countertenors after
at least two centuries of quasi-silence. Is it a transient fad, a freaky sham
or a long-running phenomenon? We will meet with two opposed opinions: Russell
Oberlin's in 2004 and Laura E. DeMarco's in 2002. I will more or less follow
Russell Oberlin who considers they allow the production of Handel's operas and
oratorios that had disappeared for two hundred and fifty years. Why can we
witness now this epiphanic resurrection? We are far from having all the answers
to that simple question.
APPENDIX
(Only English original resources and reviews)
1- HANDEL –
MALGOIRE – AGRIPPINA
2-
PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY – STABAT MATER, MOTETS TO THE VIRGIN MARY
3-
PHILIPPE JARROUSKY – VIVALDI – VIRTUOSO CANTATAS
4- JOHANN
CHRISTIAN BACH – PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY
5- VIVALDI – ERCOLE SUL TERMODONTE – PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY
6- LE CONCERT D’ASTRÉE – EMMANUELLE HAÏM – UNE FËTE
BAROQUE
7- PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY - MAX EMMANUEL CENCIC – DUETTI
8- L’ARPEGGIATA – PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY – LOS PAJAROS
PERDIDOS
9- HANDEL – FARAMONDO – MAX EMMANUEL CENCIC
(FARAMONDO) – PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY (ADOLFO) – XAVIER SABATA (GERNANDO) – TERRY
WEY (CHILDERICO) – LUGANO RADIO SVIZZERA 2008
10- GEORG
FRIEDRICH HANDEL – ARNOLD
OSTMAN – AGRIPPINA
11- JAN
WILLEM DE VRIEND – EVA BUCHMANN – HANDEL – AGRIPPINA
12- PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY – THE VOICE – LA VOIX DES RÊVES
13- LEONARDO VINCI – ARTASERSE – PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY – MAX
EMMANUEL CENCIC – DANIEL BEHLE (tenor) – FRANCO FAGIOLI – VALER BARNS-SABADUS –
YURIY MYNENKO – CONCERTO KÖLN – DIEGO FASOLIS – 2012
14- RUSSELL
OBERLIN, AMERICA’S LEGENDARY
COUNTERTENOR – RADIO CANADA
– 1961 – 1962 – 2004
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La Dondaine; 11 avril 2013; 146
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