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Aldeburgh Festival at 75: Blond Eckbert and Curlew River, plus Unsuk Chin, Judith Weir, Alban Gerhardt and Daniel Pioro as featured artists
The 75th Aldeburgh Festival opens on 7 June and runs until 23 June 2024. The festival features stagings of Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert and Britten's Curlew River, and the festival's featured musicians are composers Judith Weir and Unsuk Chin, violinist Daniel Pioro and cellist Alban Gerhardt.Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert is being staged as a co-production between Britten Pears Arts and English Touring Opera, and the work is directed by Robin Norton-Hale, conducted by Gerry Cornelius with a cast that includes Simon Wallfisch and Aoife Miskelly. Ryan Wigglesworth will conduct the Knussen Chamber Orchestra in the premiere of Weir's The Planet and Wigglesworth also conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Weir's Forest. Soprano Claire Booth performs Weir's solo opera, King Harald's Saga whilst the BBC Singers perform Blue Remembered Hill. The Leonkoro Quartet premiere Weir's second string quartet, The Spaniard, and there are performances of more of Weir's music from pianists Stephen Osborne and Rolf Hind, Trio Boheme, […]
2022-02-14 07:43:59
Vivaldi: Bajazet - Gianluca Margheri - Irish National Opera (Photo Kip Carroll) Vivaldi Bajazet; Gianluca Margheri, Eric Jurenas, James Laing, Niamh O'Sullivan, Claire Booth, Aoife Miskelly, dir: Adele Thomas, Irish Baroque Orchestra, cond: Peter Whelan; Irish National Opera at the Royal Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 February 2022 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) A vividly theatrical evening as the cast of Irish National Opera's production combine brilliant virtuoso singing with highly theatrical performancesVivaldi's Bajazet (also known as Il Tamerlano) was premiered at the end of his operatic career, in 1735 in Verona. It is in fact a pasticcio, Vivaldi combining elements from his back catalogue and arias from other composers to create a new work, a sort of greatest hits piece where the arias from other composers were ones principally associated with two of the greatest singers of the day, the soprano castrato Farinelli and […]
2022-02-09 12:50:53
Anglais - Irish National Opera’s Bajazet Comes to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[…] exists. In this instance, it seems that Vivaldi himself composed the arias for the good characters, in some cases recycling material he had written for other operas, and used other composers’ music for the villains. The story tells of the fate of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I after he is captured by Tamerlano, the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur Lenk who founded the Timurid Empire, following defeat at the Battle of Ankara in 1402. Gianluca Margheri (Bajazet), Aoife Miskelly (Idaspe), Claire Booth (Irene) and Eric Jurenas (Andronico) (c) Kip Carroll While, however, the figures and background are historical, the story as it is told is more reflective of the age in which the opera was written. The original audiences would not have sat silently throughout as a default as we do today, and so the onus was on the composer and librettist (Agostino Piovenein this instance) ensuring that the opera made […]
2021-12-29 11:02:24
[…] Middleton brought seriousness and humour to A Musical Zoo. James Newby (also with Joseph Middleton) made a stunning debut with a recital centred on Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte. Soloists for John Eccles’ Semele, pictured at the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, 2019, ahead of performance. From left to right: Bethany Horak-Hallett (Cupid), [Dave Rowell (recording engineer)], William Wallace (Athamas), Héloïse Bernard (Iris), Helen Charlston (Juno), Aoife Miskelly (Ino), Jonathan Brown (Cadmus), Jolyon Loy (Apollo), James Rhoads (3rd Priest, 2nd Augur), Anna Dennis (Semele) - (Photo Luke Koch de Gooreynd) Record of the year - On DSCH: Igor Levit combines large-scale works by two two highly independent, creative minds, the Russian Dmitri Shostakovich and the Lancastrian-born Scot Ronald Stevenson on Sony Classical Special mention - The Call: six young artists showcased in the first recital disc from […]
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