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2022-05-30 07:46:18
Two weeks of fine music in historic venues: Cambridge Summer Music 2022
[…] concludes on 31 July with Aurora Orchestra performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 from memory. Tenor Robert Murray joins violinist Benjamin Baker and the Echea Quartet for RVW's On Wenlock Edge and The Lark Ascending, plus songs by Gurney and Elgar's Violin Sonata. Baritone Marcus Farnsworth and pianist James Cheung takes us to Vienna with songs by Gustav and Alma Mahler, Schoenberg and Beethoven. Visitors to the festival include pianist Imogen Cooper in Schubert and Ravel, pianist Artur Pizarro in Albeniz's Iberia, accordionist Ryan Corbett, cellist Guy Johnston and pianist Tom Poster in Beethoven, Poulenc and Brahms, violinist Tai Murray and pianist Martin Roscoe in Clara & Robert Schumann, trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins and organist David Hill, the Mithras Trio in Beethoven, Faure and Lili Boulanger, horn player Alec Frank Gemmill and the Perks Ensemble in music for horn and quartet including Gemmill's arrangement of Dvorak's String Quintet in E flat, Connaught Brass, and […]
2022-01-29 05:44:00
[…] brings the prison system and Black Lives Matter to light within Beethoven’s 1814 masterpiece.Music by Ludwig van Beethoven; original libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Friedrich Sonnleithner; adapted & directed by Ethan Heard; arranged & music directed by Daniel Schlosberg. New English dialogue co-written by Marcus Scott and Ethan Heard.Cast: Derrell Acon and Kelly Griffin return to their roles of Roc and Leah; Victoria Lawal is Marcy; Curtis Bannister is Stan; and Corey McKern is Pizarro. Also featuring the voices of more than 100 incarcerated singers and 70 volunteers from six prison choirs across the Midwest.Tour stops:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYThursday, February 10 at 7pmSaturday, February 12 at 7pmSunday, February 13 at 2pmThe Mondavi Center, UC Davis, CASaturday, February 19 at 7:30pmScottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, AZTuesday, February 22 at 7:30pmThe Broad Stage, Santa Monica, CASaturday, February 26 at 7:30pmSunday, February 27 at 4:00pmFor complete information, […]
2021-11-02 09:38:49
Beethoven’s Fidelio at Glyndebourne with Dorothea Herbert and Adam Smith
[…] political situation. Constantly, she’s examining a letter written by Leonore to Florestan before her rescue mission. Containing Leonore’s poem, written specifically for this production, too, by Zoë Palmer, it was delivered in a spirited performance by Ms Thoma in her native language echoing a Berlin cabaret performer! But in a Stasi-type raid, she’s soon bundled off to prison screaming her head off making her final statement against the brutality regime cultivated by prison governor, Don Pizarro, the role admirably sung by baritone Dingle Yandell. Beethoven: Fidelio - Gertrude Thoma - Glyndebourne on Tour (© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) In the pivotal role of Leonora, German dramatic soprano, Dorothea Herbert (who sang the role for the first time in Chemnitz last year) was superb. Her strong and well-controlled voice was radiant and a joy to listen to especially in the confines of Glyndebourne’s comfy […]
2021-06-16 09:47:00
Review of Opera North's performance of Fidelio at The Lowry, 15th June 2021
[…] to seek out her kidnapped and starving husband, Florestan – OK it’s not exactly everyday credible stuff, but the important thing is how Beethoven’s music lifts it), and Brindley Sherratt as Rocco, the head warder who has touches of a comic Everyman-in-any-humble-job about him. His daughter Marzelline (Fflur Wyn) falls for the supposed young ‘Fidelio’ who is really Leonore, somewhat upsetting her real aspiring suitor, Jaquino (Oliver Johnston). The other two key roles are Don Pizarro, an out-and-out villain who is the reason for Florestan’s disappearance and who wants him murdered before help can arrive – he was wonderfully acted by Robert Hayward, who fixed the audience with an evil scowl from the moment he walked on the stage and never let up on the nastiness – and of course Florestan himself (Toby Spence), who has to languish unseen until Act Two but makes up for it with some glorious […]
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