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The argument over correct Handel performance practice bores conductor Harry Bicket. He just wants to make the music sing.
This month, British conductor and harpsichordist Harry Bicket makes his Met debut, leading the company's first-ever production of Handel's Rodelinda, a masterwork seldom heard until recently. Bicket's first step into the Met is the culmination of hard work followed by chain reactions of luck. In 1996, Bicket was at the Glyndebourne Festival in Sussex, England, assisting William Christie in what quickly became a famous production of Theodora, Handel's oratorio of Christian sacrifice (released earlier this year by Kultur on DVD). Bicket was in heady company: his collaborators included nor only Christie but director Peter Sellars, choreographer Mark Morris, Dawn Upshaw ...
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