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ARC: Glass/Handel – European Touring

“Anthony Roth Costanzo is the super-cool, multi-talented and dauntlessly adventurous American countertenor…Costanzo delivered exquisitely melancholy Handel arias [and] was in excellent voice, his singing sturdily articulated and secure”
The Telegraph, September 2022

HP VOICE is delighted to offer Anthony Roth Costanzo’s innovative programme marrying the music of Philip Glass with George Frideric Handel to European audiences. A flexible format to suit every venue, from a one-hour full multi-media visual spectacle to straight concert performance with chamber orchestra or small ensemble to semi-staging with backdrop video projection, dance and/or live painting.

Recent performances have been met with huge critical acclaim: a fully immersive multi-media version at Printworks London as part of the 2022 BBC Proms in collaboration with ENO and, as part of Bayer Kultur’s Start Festival 2023, in concert format with video projection in Leverkusen, Germany.

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“Fragile Glass, Handel with care”

The premiere presentation of this project took place in September 2018 at The Barnes Foundation as part of Opera Philadelphia’s annual modern music festival, O18 and to coincide with the international release of the Grammy-nominated‘ARC: Glass/Handel’ on Decca Gold. In collaboration with New York-based art and fashion multimedia company Visionaire, acclaimed artist George Condo, Tony Award-winning choreographer Justin Peck and including video projections created by a glittering array of directors and artists including Tilda Swinton, Mark Romanek, Pix Talarico and Academy Award-winner James Ivory, this boundary-pushing project has attracted unprecedented media interest since its creation and has firmly established Roth Costanzo as a major driving force in bringing opera to a wider, more diverse and multi-generational audience.

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“Roth Costanzo is the one thing dominating your attention.”
(Washington Post)

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“a unique spectacle for the magnetic countertenor”
(Opera News)

Widely acclaimed for his innate creativity and unique timbre, Roth Costanzo’s recent European performances have included as Francisco in Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel at Opera national de Paris, Medoro in Claus Guth’s production of Orlando at Teatro Real under Ivor Bolton and his stand-out performances as Philip Glass’ Akhnaten at English National Opera.

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ARC: Glass/Handel – European Touring

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