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2021-08-21 08:27:27
'Caro nome' from a balloon and laughing with her voice: I chat to soprano Hila Fahima about performing Gilda and Zerbinetta, along with her discovery of lesser known Donizetti operas
Verdi: Rigoletto - Hilda Fahima - Bregenz Festival (Photo Bregenzer Festspiele / Karl Forster) The Israeli soprano Hila Fahima is based in Vienna where she is a member of the ensemble at the Vienna State Opera, but during July she could be found floating in a balloon above Lake Constance in Bregenz. She was playing Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto on the Seebühne as part of this year's Bregenz Festival, and in June released her debut disc on the Orfeo International label, a recital of arias by Verdi and Donizetti. I caught up with Hila during a break from rehearsals in Bregenz. She has been finding rehearsals intense, whilst Gilda is a role she has sung before, for these rehearsals they have to cope with the weather and the Seebühne, the floating stage, is so different that she has to be flexible. And at the first rehearsal, it was something of […]
2021-05-14 07:13:10
The Turk in Hampshire: Longhope Summer Opera's performances of Rossini's opera feature a cast of early-career singers
Longhope Opera Rossini's delightful (and surprisingly complex) comedy, Il Turco in Italia is going to pop up in Hampshire in July thanks to Longhope Summer Opera and Scherzo Ensemble. The opera its being performed on the Longhope Estate in Newton Valence, Hampshire on 2 and 3 July 2021. The director is Charlotte McKechnie, who is the is the artistic director of New Voices Theatre, a company dedicated to performing theatrical works by women, and the conductor is Matthew O'Keefe, who is the director of Scherzo Ensemble as well as being the founder of Lunchbreak Opera (which performs short opera at lunchtime in the City of London) and founder of my local ensemble, the Brixton Chamber Orchestra. Scherzo is a professional development platform for young singers who have recently completed their training. The company offers a year-long programme of performance and training projects as well as classes in business to a […]
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2020-11-17 13:05:47
Israeli Opera Moves To Lay Off Its Entire Chorus
At least 55 of the chorus’s 62 members have received notice of the mandatory hearing that precedes layoffs in Israel; the singers have been on furlough since the spring. Their union reports that the company abruptly ended negotiations on a new contract and evidently plans to hire freelance choristers at cheaper rates. – The Jerusalem […]
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