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 ...

Isabela Díaz has great fun as chambermaid Vespetta and Grisha Martirosyan is laugh-out-loud funny as nice-but-dim Pimpinone in a tale of sexual politics not a million miles from our own time Spare a ...

In the person of dancer-choreographer Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, she mimicked the curling natural horns, scowled at the cello, sized up the six-string bass, pestered the harpsichord and interfered ...

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 ...

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 ...

Albert Storace experiences an intriguing interpretation of Telemann’s Pimpinone. To say it in a nutshell: he deserved it. When the rich, elderly Pimpinone practically pimps himself as a wealthy and ...

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 ...