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2022-03-15 08:50:57
An Anglo-Indian Orpheus, a first Ariadne and the challenge of The Pearl Fishers - Opera North's 2022/23 programme
[…] direction is shared between Early Music specialist Laurence Cummings and composer and sitar player Jasdeep Singh Degun, whose previous work with Opera North includes Arya, a concerto for sitar and orchestra. The artistic consultant is Ustad Dharambir Singh MBE (who founded South Asian Arts UK), with a cast which mixes Western and Indian classical singers. Alongside this will be concert performances of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice with Alice Coote and Fflur Wyn conducted by Anthony Hermus. Another highlight comes in the Spring, when Rodula Gaitanou directs Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, in a co-production with Gothenburg Opera (the production debuted in Gothenburg in 2018 to very positive reviews). Anthony Hermus conducts with Elizabeth Llewellyn singing her first Ariadne, Hanna Hipp as the Composer and Erin Caves as Bacchus. For the Summer, the company is presenting a concert staging of Bizet's The Pearl Fishers conducted by Matthew Kofi Waldren and directed by […]
2022-02-16 07:42:24
I've just kept going: David Greed, the leader of Opera North's orchestra since its inception in 1978 is finally stepping down
Leader of the Orchestra of Opera North David Greed performing in Huddersfield Town Hall (Photo Justin Slee) After Opera North's performances of Wagner's Parsifal this Summer, the leader of the orchestra, David Greed, will be retiring. An event made particularly notable by the fact that Greed has performed in that role since the orchestra's inception in 1978, making him the longest-serving orchestral leader in Europe. Referring to his long service, Greed said "I've just kept going" and referred to his 44 years in post as "a massive accidental record of some sort". As well as leading the orchestra in its regular programme, he will be taking part in two special events. As part of the orchestra's Kirklees Concert Season, Greed will be the soloist in Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto, conducted by Anthony Hermus, in a programme on 27 February 2022 that also includes music by Galina Ustvolskaya (one of Shostakovich's pupils) and […]
2021-07-23 18:43:49
Proceeding Hermus is Hugh Wolff, who will lead his final season this September, but will be involved as the ensemble’s emeritus conductor for the next two years. Antony Hermus will begin an initial four-year term with the orchestra with 2022 as his designate year. From 2023 onwards, he will be directing the orchestra for […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-07-19 13:15:45
Antony Hermus, principal guest conductor at Opera North, named as new chief conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra
Antony Hermus The Dutch conductor Antony Hermus, who is Opera North's new(ish) principal guest conductor, has been named as the new chief conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra. Hermus takes over the baton for the 2022/23 season and will be in place for at least four seasons, conducting 8 concerts in 2022-23 rising to 18 in 2023-24.But in September 2021 he joins the orchestra for Ibert's Concertino da camera with the Belgian saxophonist Simon Diricq and Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, in a symphonic compilation by Henk de Vlieger. And in October 2021 he returns to Leeds where he conducts Opera North in a double bill of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and West Side Story Symphonic Dances. Full details from the Belgian National Orchestra's website.
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