Composer Mark Abel discusses the lives and careers of Anne Wiazemsky, Pina Pellicer, and Larisa Shepitko – the three subjects of his song cycle, “Trois Femmes du Cinema”. The cycle appears on Abel’s Delos album Spectrum! The work is sung by soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, accompanied by pianist Carol Rosenberger. Anne Wiazemsky Pina Pellicer Larisa Shepitko
The Arts Fuse has a new review for Isabel Bayrakdarian, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s The Other Cleopatra: Queen of Armenia recording: “A delightful recording — and the first ever! — of arias from Hasse’s and Gluck’s operas about Tigranes and Cleopatra of Pontus. Plus four arias by Vivaldi for that same Cleopatra.…
Opera News names Isabel Bayrakdarian, Jory Vinikour, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s The OTHER Cleopatra recording, a Critic’s Choice! “The soprano’s musical intelligence, along with her rich sound, impressive range and sensitivity to text are solidly at home in the Italian eighteenth century, so these excerpts from settings by Vivaldi (1724), Hasse (1729)…
MusicWeb International has a second review for Isabel Bayrakdarian, Jory Vinikour, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s The Other Cleopatra: “performed here with verve and commitment… beautifully sung by Isabel Bayrakdarian… This is great music, dramatic and melodious and gives the singer plenty of opportunities to display both her technical capacity and the beauty…
Opera Now! magazine gives ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to Isabel Bayrakdarian, Constantine Orbelian, Jory Vinikour, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s The Other Cleopatra: Queen of Armenia recording: “Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian combines some fascinating Armenian history and rare C18th music combine to make a heady mix in a new album of arias sung by the character of Cleopatra of…
The Whole Note‘s Raul da Gama reviews Isabel Bayrakdarian, Jory Vinikour, Kaunas City Symphony, and Constantine Orbelian’s The Other Cleopatra in the May/June 2020 Issue: “What Bayrakdarian has also done as with many of her recordings, is to shed light on the historical riches of Armenia. More remarkably, however, on The Other Cleopatra: Queen of…
MusicWeb International offers a extensive, rave review for Isabel Bayrakdarian, Constantine Orbelian, Jory Vinikour, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s new recording, The Other Cleopatra: “Ms. Bayrakdarian’s voice is both very appealing and highly versatile… what I have noticed about her voice is its strength throughout her range. But she also has a fine sense for…
InfoDad‘s team gives a four-star rating to Isabel Bayrakdarian, Constantine Orbelian, Jory Vinikour, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s “The Other Cleopatra” recording: “The four Vivaldi excerpts on the CD reveal a high level of skill in blending voice and instruments, and a willingness to offer vocal display even in the midst of declamatory recitatives, as…
Robert Hugill reviews Isabel Bayrakdarian, Constantine Orbelian, Jory Vinikour, and The Kaunas City Symphony’s The Other Cleopatra recording on his Planet Hugill blog: “Isabel Bayrakdarian [has]… a wide lyric range… [and] a big, vibrant voice which navigates with ease the passage-work required, whilst she is adept also with the varying tessitura’s of the roles. ……
Dean Frey’s Music for Several Instruments blog reviews Isabel Bayrakdarian, Jory Vinikour, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s The Other Cleopatra: “This remarkable album is more than a classical music recording; it’s also a work of original scholarship and an effective cultural advocacy project. I hasten to add that it works especially well musically.…
The Other Cleopatra: Queen of Armenia Yes, there was another Cleopatra! She was married to Tigranes the Great, King of Armenia, and together they created an Armenia that reached from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. The resplendent and regal voice of soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is perfectly suited to the role of Cleopatra. Bayrakdarian shines…
Rafael’s Music Notes reviews Isabel Bayrakdarian, Constantine Orbelian, the Kaunas City Symphony, and Jory Vinikour’s new recording, The Other Cleopatra: “In this intriguing DELOS release the Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian explores the story of Cleopatra of Egypt, Queen Consort of King Tigranes II of Armenia in the operatic music of Hasse, Vivaldi and Gluck, all…
As part of my research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, I have undertaken extensive scholarly work on Baroque composers who have written operas about the Armenian King Tigranes II (140–55 BCE). There are at least twenty-four operas about him; most are lost. I have now gathered three operas—in entirety and in excerpts—by Hasse,…
In light of her recent Juno Award nomination, the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Radio-Canada aired a feature on Isabel Bayrakdarian and the story behind her Delos release, Mother of Light! Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian jokingly blames all the opera plots she’s been immersed in her entire singing career — plots where a character makes a pact with…
Canada’s JUNO Awards nominees were announced yesterday, and Isabel Bayrakdarian’s Mother of Light recording was nominated for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral! Mother Of Light Armenian hymns and chants in praise of Mary Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano Order Now Soprano sorceress Isabel Bayrakdarian, acclaimed internationally for her glittering accomplishments on both stage and…
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