The curtain rises on Actus Tragicus to show a stage filled with the cross-section of a modern tenement block. Slowly its 20 rooms fill with about 50 ordinary people engaged in a spectrum of human ...

“Music to combat grief” is John Eliot Gardiner’s apt description of Bach’s Actus Tragicus, coupled on this CD with a timely performance of the Easter Oratorio. Gardiner’s long, in-depth experience of ...

Actus Tragicus. A presentation of tragedy. With that title, Stuttgart Opera’s production is hardly going to be a bundle of laughs. Yet, the sheer beauty of the Bach cantatas, which lie at the heart of ...

The Belgian group Vox Luminis pares everything down to the smallest forces. For these early cantatas, eight singers and nine instrumentalists are the maximum used. Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, ...

These range from the utterly banal (a housewife doing the ironing – actually the countertenor soloist in drag) to the specific (a couple of men taking technical measurements of one of the rooms) to ...

Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble join forces with a magnificent vocal ensemble to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Actus Tragicus, set to a work by Johann Michael Bach. Program : ...

Reviewed by Ewart Shaw, Friday 3rd September 2021. Actus Tragicus stands with Oedipus Rex and King Lear in the catalogue of western masterpieces. The establishment of The Cantata Band in Adelaide ...

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Herbert Wernicke was generally regarded as one of the great European opera directors of the last quarter of a century. Very little of his work made it to the UK, but Stuttgart Opera's visit to the ...