Classical Review: South American Baroque

16.12.2013                      13.Tewet.5774

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Classical Review: South American Baroque

Velasco: La Purpura de la Rosa; Jerusalem Khan, December 5.

A Baroque opera by a Spanish-born composer in Peru, Torrejon y Velasco’s La Purpura de la Rosa, is possibly not known to many, if at all. This first American opera has been revived in a first Israel performance by the Ensemble Phoenix of early instruments and the Voce Phoenix singers, conducted by Myrna Herzog….