Aaron Carpenè

“Directing from the harpsichord, the Australian-born, Italian-based Aaron Carpenè shaped a superb account of Handel's most effusively lyrical score. ”Opera - John Allison (Handel’s Acis and Galatea, October 2011, Macau) “Handel’s irresistible little English opera “Acis and Galatea,” seemed to be from another world entirely. It was given a fine performance by Western soloists and the excellent Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, artfully led from the harpsichord by Aaron Carpenè.” The New York Times - George Loomis (Handel’s Acis and Galatea) “It was beyond the beyond, one of those rare moments in life when one is thrilled to be alive for the privilege of hearing/seeing/feeling a genius of a creation. Aaron Carpenè succeeded in producing an opera that links antiquity with modernity with a seaml