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 ...

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 ...

reviews, news & interviews 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 ...

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 ...

Our classical reporter continues to send us reviews from the Buxton Festival, read his views on the opera Pimpinone... Time was, when you went to the opera, you really got your money’s worth. Three ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — As the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center audience shuffled back from intermission, the orchestra began to tune up and our masked harlequin got to work. In the person of ...

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 ...