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Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, Surrey; Printworks; Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonOut and about with Gounod and Britten. Plus a new work by Tansy Davies Sailing by like a ghost ship on the horizon, the French composer Charles Gounod’s bicentenary has been a quiet affair so far. The BBC Proms has spurned him altogether: not a note this season according to the index, though were I controller I might have taken the same hard line, especially with another Gallic anniversary, that of Debussy, to deal with. Billowing with melody, eddying with pious excess, Gounod’s music is a habit not all can acquire, even if his biggest hit, Ave Maria, is irresistible: his own honeyed tune laid over, would you credit it, Bach’s Prelude No 1 in C major BWV 846 in gluttonous homage. An intrepid few have unearthed some Gounod rarities, including University College Opera, who in March gave the […]
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2012-03-22 09:57:48
(UK) University College London Opera Production: 'Acante et Cephise' by Jean-Philippe Rameau (19,21,23,24 mar 2012)
Location: Bloomsbury Theatre, University College London, London UK UCLU Music Society present University College Opera's production of Acante et Cephise by Jean-Philippe Rameau. “In the first British staging of this spectacular French baroque pastorale héroïque, UCOpera rediscovers the story of the lovers, Acante and Céphise. Tormented and separated by the jealous genie, Oroès, their only hope lies with the good fairy Zirphile. Will she be able to save them or will they die at the hands of Oroès and his minions? …
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