Georg Philipp Telemann’s overlooked intermezzo “Pimpinone” is being presented by the Boston Early Music Festival this weekend. By Oussama Zahr In the standard repertoire, comic opera more or less ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — As the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center audience shuffled back from intermission, the orchestra began to tune up and our masked harlequin got to work. In the person of ...

Pimpinone, Royal Opera in the Linbury Theatre review - farce with a sting in its tail Telemann’s comic opera hits the mark thanks to two fine, well-directed young singers by David Nice Saturday, 3 May ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — It was tragic and packed to the gills with drama. It was elegant in a way vocal music hadn’t been before. It was devoid of distractions, having outgrown the carnivals and courtly ...

In 1725, Georg Philipp Telemann premiered Pimpinone in Hamburg, delivering a sharp, comedic intermezzo that captured the changing tastes of 18th-century opera audiences. Pimpinone pokes fun at social ...

Sophie Gilpin’s staging of Telemann’s comedy is funny and thought-provoking While highly regarded in his time, the music of the extremely prolific German composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) is ...

Continuing the festival’s commitment to bringing its audience gems from the German Baroque, BEMF also revived its 2021 Telemann double-bill consisting of the late dramatic solo cantata Ino paired with ...

You don’t go to Telemann’s Pimpinone expecting psychological nuance or high tragedy – this is baroque fluff, originally designed to entertain audiences between the acts of Handel’s Tamerlano. But ...