Masterclass in Early Italian Baroque Opera with Mark Tucker

Masterclass for professional singers and advanced students in early italian opera

The masterclass is part of a long term programme aiming at a staged production of Monteverdi’s Poppea in 2011 (in Danish!)
Repertoire: Monteverdi, Cavalli and other Italian composers from 1600-1700
Continuo: Benjamin Bayl (au) - harpsichord (440)
Place: Literaturhaus, Møllegade 7, Copenhagen N
Dates:

Saturday Dec 5: 14.30-19.00
Sunday Dec 6: 13.00-18.00
Monday Dec 7: 10.00-15.00

Application: Short CV and repertoire should be sent to: info@earlyopera.org
Price: 200 dkk/day, 500 dkk for all three days. Max 8 active participants per day
Passive participants: Price: 100 dkk /day. 200 dkk for all three days
For more info, see website or contact Björn Ross: info@earlyopera.org, tel. +45 26 28 04 15

Mark Tucker is a remarkable interpreter of the baroque repertoire and has performed and recorded alongside many of its leading exponents including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, Emmanuelle Haim, Ton Koopman, Sir Roger Norrington and Sigiswald Kuijken. Career highlights include appearances at the Salzburg Festival in Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 under Harnoncourt; at the Edinburgh International Festival in Handel’s Israel in Egypt under Haim; and Galuppi’s L’Olimpiade at Teatro La Fenice. Of Anglo-Venetian parentage, Mark has a particular affinity with Italian music; and his recitals and lectures of 17th Century Italian music with Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo) have been well-received by critics and academics alike. Above all, his performances in the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo have brought international recognition and engagements across the globe. He has performed all three of Monteverdi’s surviving operas, including performances with De Nederlandse Opera in Pierre Audi’s acclaimed production of L’Orfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and L’incoronazione di Poppea.

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POPPEA

International CONFERENCE in Stockholm on Monteverdi's last opera

KUNGL. MYNTKABINETTET

Slottsbacken 6, Gamla Stan, Stockholm

AUGUST 1, 2009

Speakers:

Ellen Rosand - Professor of Music History, Yale University

Wendy Heller - Professor of Music, Princeton University

Mark Tatlow - Professor, Artistic Director, Drottningholms Slottsteater, Stockholm

Magnus Tessing Schneider - MA, PhD, Theatre History, Copenhagen University

Lars Berglund - PhD, Ass. Prof., Music History, Uppsala University

Registration fee: 200 SEK - Students: 100 SEK (excl. meals and tickets).

For more info and registration write to info@earlyopera.org

Arranged in collaboration with Drottningholms Slottsteater. Performances July 25 - August 8

The Network recieves new financial support

Nordic Network For Early Opera gets new support!

The Danish Art Council's committe for Music Drama grants the Network with 200.000 DKK for the season 2009/2010 for new opera productions.

Nordic Culture Point grants the Network with a new 3-year network support of 30.000 EUR for 2009-2011.

The Danish Art Council's committe for Music grants the Network with 20.000 DKK for masterclasses and administrational expenses for 2009.

Conference on early opera in Copenhagen

Caccini's Euridice and the Birth of Opera

- an international conference on early baroque opera

The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen

October 17 - 19 2008.

The conference was organized by Nordic Network for Early Opera in collaboration with Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival and The Royal Danish Academy of Music.

The event opened with a masterclass concert with excerpts from Caccini's Euridice, led and introduced by Marco Horvat and Deda Cristina Colonna.

Speakers:

• Barbara Hanning - Professor, The City Collage, New York

• Magnus Tessing Schneider - Ph.D., Theatre science, Aarhus University 

• Jette Barnholdt Hansen - Cand. Mag, Ass. Prof. in Rethorics, Copenhagen University

• Per-Erik Öhrn - opera director, writer, former artistic director of Drottningholms Slottsteater, Stockholm

• Marco Horvat - singer, instrumentalist, director, Paris/Rome

• Deda Cristina Colonna - director, choreographer, Novara, Italy

• John La Bouchardiére - opera director, London

• Chris Cowell - opera director, translator, London

Masterclass with Jill Feldman & Cecilie Norby

The Vocal Theatre was the title of a masterclass & workshop coached by soprano and early music specialist Jill Feldman together with jazz singer Cæcilie Norby. The repertoire focused on operatic music by Claudio Monteverdi and his contemporaries.

The masterclass was organized by Nordic Network for Early Opera and held at Literaturhaus in Copenhagen May 4-6 2008.

Monteverdi and the Baroque Theatre

Monteverdi and the Baroque Theatre was the title of a conference held November 25 2007 at Hofteatret in The Theatre Museum in Copenhagen, in conjunction with three performances of Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo at the same venue. Speakers were:

• Bent Holm - dr. phil. Theatre Science, Copenhagen University

• Lise Grosen Rasmussen - cand. mag. in italian language and medieval history

• Magnus Tessing Schneider - ph.d., Aarhus University

• Jette Barnholdt Hansen - cand. mag, post. doc. Copenhagen University

This was the first event arranged entirely by the Nordic Network.

L'ORFEO - Favola in musica da Claudio Monteverdi

L'ORFEO - Favola in musica da Claudio Monteverdi

A stage production of Monteverdi's opera from 1607, held at The Court Theatre in The Theatre Museum, Copenhagen, 23-25 November 2007.

The production was not actually a creation of the Nordic Network For Early Opera, but the other way around - the reason why the Network was initiated and took form (it all started in June 2007). 

The core of the production team of L'Orfeo was thus the same persons that now constitutes the "board" of the network: 

• Magnus Tessing Schneider - who directed the opera

• Peter Spissky - was leading the orchestra as a violinist

• Jette Barnholdt Hansen - functioned as a voice coach and worked on the text and declamation

• Björn Ross - initiated the project, produced the opera and made the videographic stage setting

We also made a ambitious 60 pages printed programme, with articles by Magnus and Jette. The programme can still be ordered for 50 dkk excl. shipping. Write to info@lorfeo.dk!