Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música

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The Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música is a Portuguese baroque orchestra based in Porto .

The ensemble was founded in 2006. Its main venue is the Casa da Música , the artistic director is the conductor and harpsichordist Laurence Cummings .

History, goals

The ensemble was founded to present musical masterpieces from the Baroque period in historically informed performance practice . Within the first decade after its founding, the Orquestra Barroca succeeded - in addition to its chief conductor Laurence Cummings - in engaging a large number of well-known baroque conductors: Rinaldo Alessandrini , Alfredo Bernardini , Fabio Biondi , Harry Christophers , Antonio Florio , Paul Hillier , Riccardo Minasi , Andrew Parrott , Rachel Podger , Christophe Rousset , Andreas Staier and Masaaki Suzuki . Furthermore, a collaboration was established with the following vocal and instrumental soloists: Huw Daniel , Franco Fagioli , Alina Ibragimova , Roberta Invernizzi , Peter Kooij , Marie Lys and Dmitry Sinkovsky . The ensemble has also played with renowned choirs, for example with The Sixteen and with the Coro Casa da Música .

The Orquestra Barroca regularly plays major Baroque works such as the Salve Regina by Handel, the B minor Mass by Bach, his Brandenburg Concerts and the Christmas Oratorio . The ensemble also played in the Portuguese premiere of Handel's Ottone and in the rediscovery of de Almeida's L'Ippolito . Guest performances have taken the ensemble to Sintra , to the Opéra de Dijon , to BASF in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and to the Wiener Konzerthaus , several times to Spain, to Ourense , to the Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza and to the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, ​​the London Handel Festival and the French baroque festivals of Sablé-sur-Sarthe and Ambronay .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opéra Dijon: From Portugal to Spain: Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música , accessed on April 16, 2018