Stellar review of my concerto with the Berkeley Festival and @voicesofmusic last week!! Bravo tutti, bravo all the soloists 🥰 *full link in bio*
“ In violinist Augusta McKay Lodge, VoM has a soloist who not only shreds but has a titanic sound. McKay Lodge plays with a rounded and beautiful tone, certainly, but she can also overwhelm with volume and raw power. And this is on a Baroque violin, supposedly less bright and loud than its modern descendant. McKay Lodge often appears with VoM, and she’s worth a special trip to hear.
She stepped into the solo role for Vivaldi’s Concerto in D Major, RV 208 (“Il Grosso Mogul,” apparently named for a libretto of the time). Plunging into the first movement’s extensive bariolage (alternating notes played on adjacent strings), McKay Lodge created such contrasts in sound that the stopped-string melody and the open-string ostinato seemed to be played on different instruments. The impressive cadenzas were copied from an anonymous manuscript, which Tayler and van Proosdij found online. Judging by how much time these cadenzas spend in fifth position, they’re either by Vivaldi or by someone who wanted to sound like him; McKay Lodge tossed them off with ease.
She then moderated her sound in order to blend with Isabelle Seula Lee in the Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor, RV 522. While the performance of the outer movements was impressive, the jewel was the pair’s sweet connection in the work’s unforgettably beautiful Larghetto.”
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Tonight ends our three months of Charpentier’s Médée, first in Paris at the Opera Garnier (staging David McVicar, @leadesandre in title role) and then at the Teatro Real in Madrid (staging Marie Lambert Lebihan, @veronique.gens in title role).
A truly touching and special production, here are some photo memories from both versions.
1. Alongside my dear @emmanuel.reschecaserta
2. Some of the Violin section, Paris
3. The maestro just before the start #williamchristie
4. @leadesandre as Médée @operadeparis 📸Elisa Haberer
5. William Christie @teatro_real Madrid 📸Javier Del Real
6. Some of the incredible choir @teatro_real
7. The phantoms at Garnier @vivifleurielife
8. Orchestra on break 😎
9. Madrid
10. A beautiful sunburn from ☀️ Madrid ❤️ 😂
Bravo tutti 💗💗💗
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