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2022-04-16 09:20:18
From the Shenandoah Valley to Kensington Gardens: I chat to Ella Marchment about her new role at Shenandoah Conservatory & directing the UK premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women
Ella Marchment with the other founders of SWAP'ra, Madeleine Pierard, Anna Patalong, and Kitty Whately, and conductor Jessica Cottis at the 2018 gala Ella Marchment is a woman of many hats. I first came across her as the founder of Helios Collective when in 2013 they presented a triple bill called The Bear goes Walkabout with Walton's The Bear alongside two specially commissioned operas by Philip Ashworth and Joel Rust. And they premiered my opera The Genesis of Frankenstein in 2015. Since then she has founded the online project Opera Harmony, in direct response to the pandemic, co-founded the Opera Festival of Chicago (of which she is artistic director), co-founded SWAP’ra, a charity that supports women and parents working in opera, and she is currently an associate professor and the director of opera at Shenandoah Conservatory, and will be directing the UK premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women at […]
2022-03-08 10:42:57
Mozart: Don Giovanni - Anna Patalong - Nevill Holt Opera, 2021 (Photo: Lloyd Winters) Congratulations to soprano Anna Patalong who has been named as the new chief executive of British Youth Opera (BYO) in succession to Nicola Candish. Anna takes up her appointment in April, but Anna joined BYO as a development consultant in 2019, joining the organisation’s senior management team and shaping its fundraising strategy. Prior to this, she was part of BYO as a young singer between 2007 and 2010.She has previously described her experiences with BYO as being like ‘an apprenticeship to the opera world’ and credits it for both building her career in opera and securing the funding that made her further training possible. In 2018, Anna was a co-founder of SWAP'ra [see my article], an organisation formed by five women working in opera to both help encourage change and to provide a supportive platform in the […]
2021-08-23 15:44:41
Folk ritual and drama: Mozart's Don Giovanni at Nevill Holt Opera rises to the challenge
Mozart: Don Giovanni - Roman Ackley - Nevill Holt Opera(photo Lloyd Winters) Mozart Don Giovanni; Seán Boylan, Nicholas Crawley, Anna Patalong, Aoife Miskelly, Joshua Owen Mills, Olivia Warburton, Benedict Nelson, dir: Jack Furness, Shadwell:Ensemble, cond: Finnegan Downie Dear; Nevill Holt Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 22 August 2021 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) A profoundly satisfying production, using disturbing English folk-ritual alongside some vividly theatrical elementsMozart's Don Giovanni is an opera which takes place in an urban landscape, much of it at night, so setting the piece outdoors in the middle of the afternoon might seem something of a stretch. But for their production of Mozart's Don Giovanni (seen Sunday 22 August 2021), Nevill Holt Opera and director Jack Furness have risen to the challenge. Conducted by Finnegan Downie Dear and with the new Shadwell:Ensemble, the production featured Seán Boylan as Don Giovanni, Nicholas Crawley as Leporello, […]
2020-11-15 10:58:39
A Life On-Line: Baroque in Wiltshire, Stravinsky in Chelsea, Beethoven in Poole
[…] full of warmth, and rhythmic vigour. One of the curiosities of the work is that in all the plans for Beethoven 250 (pre-pandemic restrictions), there wasn't a rush of danced dramatisations of this terrific work. [BSO@Home] Nigel Foster and his London Song Festival have responded to lockdown by going into the studio. We caught Will there really be a morning?, a terrific programme devoted to the poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), performed by soprano Anna Patalong, actress Sarah Lawrie and pianist Nigel Foster. As a person, Dickinson remains a slightly distant, off-centre figure and Foster's programme wisely eschewed any biographical explanation in favour of interleaving song with Lawrie speaking Dickinson's words, but a judicious mixture of poetry and her letters, thus introducing us to the major themes of Dickinson's writing from nature and a quirky view of God, to her passionate friendship with her sister-in-law. The programme was full of […]
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