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 ...

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our classical reporter continues to send us reviews from the Buxton Festival, read his views on the opera Pimpinone... Time was, when you went to the opera, you really got your money’s worth. Three ...

Isabela Díaz as Vespetta and Grisha Martirosyan as Pimpinone All images by Camilla Greenwell ...