Portugueses de Valor: Ana Quintans

Uma salva de palmas à radiante soprano portuguesa Ana Quintans que interpreta Jonathas na ópera “David et Jonathas” do compositor francês Marc-Antoine Charpentier que estreou recentemente na Brooklyn Academy of Music, em Nova Iorque.

Historians of the gay civil rights movement will now have to add two unlikely names to their list of pioneers: the French Baroque composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the librettist François Bretonneau, who are well served by the current production of their beautiful and courageous opera, “David et Jonathas,” which opened Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.  [ New York Times ]