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A remarkable sense of energy & engagement: Wagner's Die Walküre from the London Opera Company at St John's Smith Square
[…] here Peter Selwyn conducted an ensemble of nearly 80 players, making the platform at St John's full to over-flowing (including Wagner tubas loaned from the Royal Opera House). The players were a mix of professionals, music students and good amateurs. Selwyn is an experienced Wagnerian; he has been assisting on the most recent Ring Cycle at Bayreuth and conducted Grimeborn's Ring [see my interview with Peter] as well as being the chief conductor of the non-professional Lambeth Orchestra. His direction was masterly, bringing encouragement, discipline and clarity to his players and guiding them through near four hours of music, yet shaping the work too. Perhaps, most importantly, this was a concert performance where the orchestra did not over-dominate the singers. Too often in Wagner and some early 20th-century operas, if you take the orchestra out of the pit the result is an orchestral sound that overwhelms the voices. Not here, during the […]
2022-07-23 07:45:00
From Bayreuth to Grimeborn: having assisted at Bayreuth Festival's new Ring Cycle, Peter Selwyn moves on to conduct the concluding parts of the Grimeborn Festival's ambitious Ring Cycle
[…] original staging he was off-stage), what to do with the Woodbird and where the sound should come from. And as an aside, Peter comments that Wagner asked for the Woodbird to be sung by a boy, and he goes on to comment that the Bayreuth acoustic is very favourable to lighter singers as the pit is so deep and covered. It is much harder to balance such things with an open pit.Peter Selwyn conducting the Lambeth Orchestra at All Saints West Dulwich in April 2022 (Photo: Anna Shilonosova)Many of Peter's recent operatic engagements and future ones are for Wagner, something he sees as a happy happenstance. And now, people know he has done a lot of work in Wagner's operas and ask him. Yet he would be very happy to conduct Puccini's La Boheme again (a work he last conducted 20 years ago) and has worked on Verdi's operas at […]
2022-03-02 14:53:12
Peter Selwyn One of my local orchestras, the Lambeth Orchestra, is celebrating its 50th anniversary and will shortly be announcing its celebratory 2022/23 season. The orchestra, founded in 1972 and under the direction of Dr Christopher Fifield since 1982, is one of London's foremost amateur orchestras. But besides all this, there is other big news. Peter Selwyn has been appointed the orchestra's new principal conductor and he conducts the orchestra on 9 April 2022 in a programme that includes Dvorak's Symphonic Variations and RVW's A London Symphony and music by Ravel at All Saints' Church, West Dulwich. Peter Selwyn is a local boy and first heard the orchestra when he attended concerts with his parents. He has since gone on to be Kapellmeister and Head of Music at the Staatstheater Nürnberg as well as included three seasons at Bayreuth as assistant to Adam Fischer and Giuseppe Sinopoli. Most recently we heard Peter […]
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