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Article: Bullish on Baroque: what's our role in the revival of interest in early opera?
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- Opera Canada
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- January 1, 2006
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I SUPPOSE IT'S A QUESTION OF OPERATIC YING AND YANG, OF balance, of the operatic pendulum compensating as it always seems to do. At a time when it is difficult to suitably cast operas by Verdi or Wagner, and when the French repertoire has reached a crisis point (some believe a point of no return), surely there is some part of the operatic universe that offers hope for the future. And indeed, after comprehensive Mozart and Rossini revivals, the world of Baroque opera today represents one of the areas for general rejoicing and optimism.
A generation ago, several pioneering conductors in Europe, such as Nicolas Harnoncourt, William Christie and John Eliot Gardiner, ...