Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester Marchi - LeonoraIn 2020, in a fitting contribution to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, the Innsbruck Early Music Festival presented a concert performance of the opera Leonora by his contemporary Ferdinando Par. With this program selection the conductor Alessandro de Marchi rescued from oblivion the counterpart of Beethoven's opera Fidelio and it's model. Spirited recitatives, extended arias, cabalettas, and marvelously mellow duets occur

conducted by Andre de Ridder

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The six Ariettes are the departure point for the arrangement realized in 2012 by British composer Robin Holloway in response to a request from the San Francisco Symphony

creator of Northern Ballet's acclaimed Jane Eyre

Derek O'Brien

and completely off-the-wall

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