Anne Collins News
British opera singer (1943-2009)
- contralto
- United Kingdom
- opera singer, musician, performing artist
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2024-03-23
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2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] minor to the theme from Thunderbirds on three organs all at once utilising the Cathedral’s newly-rebuilt pipe organ, the one-manual chamber organ and a digital touring organ generously supplied by Allen organs. Retiring collection. Youth gets in on the act, too, with a couple of Young Organists’ Platform lunchtime concerts being held at St Peter Mancroft Church on Tuesday 9 July and Friday 12 July at 1pm in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the church’s Peter Collins’ organ. Free admission. Retiring collection. The youthfulness of Norwich Cathedral’s Girl Choristers come to the fore and will be heard in tandem with the Lay Clerks and Choral Scholars of Norwich Cathedral Choir singing Choral Evensong on Tuesday, 9 July, 5.30pm while on Friday, 12 July, 5.30pm, the Boy Choristers, the Lay Clerks and Choral Scholars will participate in Choral Evensong. Free admission. As always, everyone is welcomed to attend daily worship at Norwich Cathedral […]
2024-03-02 09:03:00
Shamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change
[…] works in other genres been rediscovered and returned to their place in the repertoire. Stanford wrote nine operas and these still are not well known; currently only The Travelling Companion is available in a complete on disc [from SOMM Records]. Even a work like Shamus O'Brien has no recording.This is all going to change as Retrospect Opera is releasing the first studio recording of Stanford's Shamus O'Brien with David Parry conducting the Orchestra of Scottish Opera plus soloists Brendan Collins, Anna Brady, Gemma Ni Bhriain, Ami Hewitt, Joseph Doody, Andrew Gavin and Rory Dunne with Irish piper Jarlath Henderson.I recently caught up by Zoom with conductor David Parry who was in Scotland amid performances of Jonathan Dove's new opera, Marx in London, a work which David refers to as fantastic. It has been something of a hit, too, with audiences with Scottish Opera selling out the Theatre Royal in Glasgow.Whilst Shamus O'Brien was popular […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-02 18:32:40
Tanglewood 2024 Looks Good
[…] course well known as a virtuoso bass player, but he was also a rival publisher, doubtless to Byelayev’s annoyance.) The TMC Festival of Contemporary Music, what some of us still call Fromm Week, July 25th-29th, offers seventeen composers, plus works by Tania León and Steven Mackey, directors, on each of six programs. There will be piano recitals by Jeremy Denk and Yuja Wang, and all manner of chamber music, and, on August 30th, even Judy Collins and friends. Lastly, once can savor a list of debuts and represented living composers HERE. Mark DeVoto, musicologist and composer, is an expert on the music of Alban Berg, Debussy, and other early 20th-century composers. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton (Ph.D., 1967), he has published on many music subjects, and edited the revised fourth (1978) and fifth (1987) editions of Harmony by his teacher Walter Piston. The post […]
2024-02-01 07:43:00
Being themselves: the young artists of the National Opera Studio in Simple Gifts, a programme of song from across the globe at Wigmore Hall
[…] The repertoire features songs by Schubert along with Copland, Dora Pejačević, Chopin, Tosti, Gareth Glyn, Rui Zhang, Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, Brahms, Ravel, Sibusiso Njeza, Otilio Galindez, Tom Cipullo, Douglas Lilburn, and William Walton. A theme running through many of the songs was belonging, and quite a few of the singers performed music by composers from their native country, thus giving the recital a rather more varied feel than usual. The programme was curated by Dearbhla Collins and Sholto Kynoch, who also prepared the young artists. We treated to a series of strong performances (all sung from memory), all confident and all committed to the music whatever the style. That some were singing in their native language for a change was clearly a bonus. The styles of performance varied, some singers are clearly destined for an opera-focused career whilst others were more at home in the idea of the small-scale intensity […]
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