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2023-09-30 11:30:12
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House; Coliseum; Royal Festival Hall, LondonSparkling musical invention pierces the gloom of George Benjamin’s mysterious New Chamber Opera; Britten’s masterpiece holds its own at ENO; and one woman, 7,866 pipes and resounding funNot for the first time in an opera by George Benjamin, to a libretto by Martin Crimp, the subject appears specific: a dead child, a mother, the search for a way to bring her son back to life. The reality is more elusive. Their fourth collaboration,
2022-11-05 12:30:09
The week in classical: glass human; An Anatomy of Melancholy; The Moon Hares review – opera for a lonely world
Glyndebourne, East Sussex; Barbican Pit theatre, London EC2; Queen Elizabeth Hall, London SE1A New Chamber Opera explores isolation and connection, a John Dowland recital strikes a note of exquisite pain – and a community opera enchants with a modern fableSometimes, opera can go straight to the heart of the here and now. Oma, a Syrian refugee, is marooned on the 12th floor of a tower block, yearning for permission to stay in the UK and carrying the terrible memory of her dangerous Channel crossing in a flimsy boat. She is unaware that other lonely, desperate people are just down the corridor: Edward, a Jamaican widower with undiagnosed dementia, and Grace, a student beset by a menacing voice in her head.Glyndebourne, stepping away from the opulence we normally associate with its productions, has encapsulated today’s pressing social issues in a single chamber opera, one devised by talking to young people, care […]
2022-07-07 06:22:12
Beyond the Garden: Developing an Opera
Stephen McNeff & Aoife Mannix: Beyond the Garden - Susan Bickley at premiere of the work (Photo Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre)Stephen McNeff and Aoife Mannix' opera Beyond the Garden (subtitled When the past is not how you want to remember it…) was commissioned by Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre and premiered by them in Slovenia in 2019, but prior to then Stephen had presented excerpts in a workshop that I was lucky enough to be able to attend. Now the work is receiving its UK premiere, with performances at the Lichfield Festival on 14 July [ticket details] and at the Three Choirs Festival on 25 July [ticket details], with mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley as Ottilia (a role she created at the opera's premiere), and soprano Alison Rose as Klara, with Gemini, conducted by Dominic Wheeler.Stephen McNeff and Aoife Mannix have made some changes to the opera since its first performance, and in this article, […]
2022-04-12 15:13:58
Maria Theresia von Paradis’s piano bewitched the Viennese court – but she was tormented by quacks proffering remedies she didn’t need. Now a disabled theatre team are turning her life into opera Millions across the world watched cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason play at Megan and Harry’s wedding. But only a tiny fraction of those viewers would have known the haunting Sicilienne with which his performance begun, or the composer believed to have written it. Maria Theresia von Paradis, once the darling of the Viennese court, a blind piano prodigy, singer, composer and music professor who performed for royalty throughout Europe, has since been erased from history. “She was deeply respected by her contemporaries – Mozart, Salieri and Haydn,” says Selina Mills, co-librettist of a New Chamber Opera about her life, with music by
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