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2024-02-07 10:46:00
A lovely documentary from Scottish Opera that follows emerging artists Ross Cumming (baritone), Inna Husieva (soprano), Monwabisi Lindi (tenor), costume trainee Lovisa Litsgard, associate artist Lea Shaw (mezzo-soprano) and emerging artist repetiteur José Javier Ucendo, in their journey to create a performance of Rossini's The Barber of Seville in October 2023. [We caught both Inna Husieva and Monwabisi Lindi in opera scenes during their time at the National Opera Studio in January 2022, see my review, whilst Ross Cumming was Pilgrim in British Youth Opera's production of Vaughan Williams' The Pilgrim's Progress at the Three Choirs Festival in 2023, see my review]Ross Cumming, Inna Husieva and Lea Shaw will be performing around Scotland in Scottish Opera's Spring 2024 Opera Highlights tour. See the website for details.The documentary was filmed at Scottish Opera's Production Studios, Edington Street and Elmbank Crescent, and Theatre Royal Glasgow during October 2023. Filmed and edited by Antonia Bain. See the video on YouTube. […]
2023-12-12 13:30:00
The Norfolk-based charity Into Opera continues its mission to get people 'into opera' with its Opera Unwrapped for Christmas concert on Friday 15 December 2023 at St Andrew's Hall, Norwich, one of the last events at the venue before it closes its doors for restoration.John Andrews conducts the Britten Sinfonia and they are joined by an enviable line-up of vocal talent, soprano Alison Langer, tenor Monwabisi Lindi, mezzo-soprano Yvonne Howard and baritone James Cleverton. There will be arias from Puccini’s La bohème, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and Verdi’s La Traviata, seasonal music from Howard Blake's The Snowman and the musical Meet me in St. Louis, as well as Christmas songs and carols. In addition to Into Opera’s launch of the successful Norfolk Into Opera Festival, the charity has also built a reputation for its transformative education work in local schools. As part of Opera Unwrapped for Christmas children from the choirs of the Bawburgh School, Barford […]
2022-06-16 08:00:27
Rising to the challenge: the Young Artists of the National Opera Studio in Sondheim: Before & After
Sondheim: Before & After: Sondheim, Ravel, Britten, Berg, Heggie, Mazzoli, Muhly, Tesori; Alexandra Chernenko, Ffion Edwards, Inna Husieva, Laura Lolita Peresivana, Sian Griffiths, Joanna Harries, Shakira Tsindos, Logan Lopez Gonzalez, Philip Clieve, Monwabisi Lindi, Josef Ahn, Kamohelo Tsotetsi, Chloe Kim, Nadia Kisseleva, Alexsander Ribeiro de Lara, Elli Welsh, director: Keith Warner, conductor: Andrew Griffiths; National Opera Studio at Hoxton HallReviewed 14 June 2022 The Young Artists of the National Opera Studio rise to the challenge of singing Sondheim's brand of music-theatre, alongside composers he admired and composers he influenced Some of Stephen Sondheim's songs are a big stretch for music theatre voices and his works are increasingly staged by opera companies. But equally, Sondheim's style of text-based music theatre can be a different sort of challenge for opera singers; most companies, like Opera North's recent production of A Little Night Music [see my review], use a mix of classically trained and […]
2022-01-21 09:15:08
Opera scenes from the Young Artists of the National Opera Studio with the orchestra of English National Opera at Cadogan Hall
[…] staged scenes from Verdi's Rigoletto, Rossini's La cenerentola, Jonathan Dove's Flight, Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, Massenet's Werther, Bizet's Les pecheurs de perles, Donizetti's La fille du regiment, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Handel's Orlando, Bizet's Carmen, Britten's Albert Herring, Massenet's Cendrillon and Verdi's Falstaff. The singers were the 2021/22 Young Artists - sopranos Alexandra Chernenko, Ffion Edwards, Inna Husieva, Laura Lolita Peresivana, mezzo-sopranos Sian Griffiths, Joanna Harries, Shakira Tsindos, counter-tenor Logan Lopez Gonzalez, tenor Monwabisi Lindi, baritones Josef Ahn, Kamohelo Tsotetsi - and the 2021/22 Associate Artists - mezzo-sopranos Arlene Belli, Judith Le Breuilly, tenor Philip Clieve, baritones Jolyon Loy, Jevan McAuley, bass Thomas D Hopkinson. With one exception, all the excerpts involved a number of singers, duets, trios, a quintet and a sextet, and one of the things that came over from the evening was the way the singers interacted with each other, the evening wasn't so much […]
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