Cecilia Bartoli/Kammerorchesterbasel/Fasolis – review

Barbican, LondonUntil the Royal Opera staged his Niobe, Queen of Thebes in 2010, the name of the Italian composer Agostino Steffani made few waves in the UK beyond the preserves of baroque specialists. Now Cecilia Bartoli has given his reputation a further boost with her tour (and related CD) of extracts from Niobe and 10 of his other operas, which visited the Barbican on Thursday.Steffani enjoyed an international reputation during his lifetime, not just as a composer but as a senior prelate and...

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