OAE/Norrington/Antonacci – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonQueens, Heroines and Ladykillers is the eye-catching title for a series of concerts in the current Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment season that deal with the presentation of women in baroque and classical opera. Sarah Connolly, Emma Bell and Stéphanie d'Oustrac are among the singers scheduled to appear in it over the next year. But we opened with Anna Caterina Antonacci portraying a series of tragic heroines from works by Cherubini, Gluck and Berlioz in the wider...

Read full article Share article