Boldly cutting the Bard’s text, Ponelle fashioned a crazy-quilt mixture of opera, drama, slapstick, ballet, pantomime, skits, sight gags and fantasy into a free wheeling baroque romp.
“It was about civic prestige and a reflection of the investors’ love of art. It was a unique moment in baroque opera history where you had an engaged audience committed financially and artisticall ...
An art collector in Spain has been left stunned by the botched restoration of a copy of a painting by Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The Valencia-based private collector paid €1,200 ...