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2023-12-19 09:41:00
Nevill Holt refocuses as a multi-arts festival for 2024 under guest festival director James Dacre.
Plans have been announced for the 2024 festival at Nevill Holt with Nevill Holt Opera being refocused as the Nevill Holt Festival. Whilst music and the arts have always been a feature of the present incarnation of the Nevill Holt estate (bought and restored by David Ross in 2000 following years as a prep school), the performance presentation has undergone a number of incarnations. Initially a temporary theatre was created in the courtyard of the historic 17th century stables and opera seasons presented in collaboration with Wasfi Kani's Grange Park Opera. Then in 2013, a new company was launched, Nevill Holt Opera, with director Oliver Mears and conductor Nicholas Chalmers. In 2018 the temporary theatre was replaced by an award winning new one by architects Witherford Watson Mann and then in 2021 the festival was held in the open air [see my review of Mozart's Don Giovanni]. This year's festival had something of […]
2023-11-02 07:26:00
All change at the BBC orchestras
Adam Szabo (Photo: Phil Sharp)It is all change at the top of the BBC orchestras, as Bill Chandler has been appointed director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and Adam Szabo has been appointed director of the BBC Philharmonic.Originally from the USA, Bill was a violinist in the Houston Symphony and then joined the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as associate leader. Since September 2021 he has been director of the BBC Concert Orchestra, where he increased the orchestra's presence for Nottingham and Great Yarmouth, plus regular appearances at Alexandra Palace and plus appearances on Radio 2’s Piano Room series and Radio 3’s Unclassified Live, a tour with CBeebies and concerts with Streetwise Opera, London Jazz Festival and Grange Park Opera. He appointed the orchestra’s Chief Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing earlier this year.Adam Szabo comes to the BBC Philharmonic from being co-founder and artistic director of Manchester Collective [see my 2020 interview with […]
2022-07-31 09:29:00
South Pacific: Stupendous performances from Julian Ovenden & Gina Beck head this striking new version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic
[…] the end, the frantic preparations for the troops departure had a stationery, bewildered Bloody Mary (Joanna Ampil) at their centre.The sound design had nice naturalistic feel to it, granted the big ensemble numbers were loud, but there was none of the feeling of sound being amped up for the sake of it that you can often get with modern musicals. And Sound Pacific is one of the few musicals that I have heard done acoustically (at Grange Park Opera).Rodgers & Hammerstein: South Pacific - Joanna Ampil & ensemble - Chichester Festival Theatre, 2021 (Photo Johann Persson)This was a big show (over 30 on stage) and what I enjoyed about it was that Evans and Yee have reinvented a large-scale musical without turning it into something else. This was a big Broadway show that reflected its roots but where all sorts of details had been rethought and reworked to created something the […]
2022-07-04 06:27:07
Added depth: Julien Van Mellaerts & James Baillieu mix Die schöne Müllerin with the poems not set by Schubert, read by Christopher Purves, to remarkable effect
[…] of Samuel Barber - interviewCloseness & distance: Friedrich Cerha's evocation of Viennese traditional music in a new version for Viennese Schrammel quartet - record reviewNever such innocence: Benjamin Hewat-Craw & Yuhao Guo in RVW, Butterworth & Gurney - record reviewThe Lost Art of Frances Cole: recordings from the 1970s provide a glimpse of the art of the Black American harpsichordist - record reviewGiving voice to unconventional instruments: the Lawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet - record reviewMadcap theatre & magnificent music: Janacek's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček at Grange Park Opera - opera reviewHome
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