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Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-04-28 15:00:06
Linbury theatre, LondonBohuslav Martinů’s 1928 work is a strip-lighted nightmare whirlwind, while Harbison’s is highly stylised post-tonal sitcom unfolding around a four-poster bedIn an evening where little was obvious, it was definitely a bad night for teddies. One had its head torn off as the violent accompaniment to a coloratura tour-de-force. Moments earlier, the backdrop had parted to reveal an entire wall of mutilated bears, clumsily taped back together. And, in one of the most disturbing moments of all, a human-scale teddy wandered on playing an accordion like a cameo in a horror film, before eventually removing its own oversized head to pick a fight with one of the singers.Confused? I was, repeatedly, in these extraordinary performances of two supremely weird operas. The bears themselves were the work of directors Eleanor Burke and Harriet Taylor, who staged Bohuslav Martinů’s 1928 Larmes de Couteau and John Harbison’s 1977 Full Moon in March […]
2024-04-26 10:15:00
David Pickard says farewell to the BBC Proms with 90 concerts across the UK including Bizet's Carmen, Julius Eastman's Symphony No. 2, Suk's Asrael Symphony and much more
[…] music by contemporary composers featured includes Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Cello Concerto, and pieces by Heiner Goebbels, Missy Mazzoli, Erkki-Sven Tüür.The First Night includes Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, with Isata Kanneh-Mason, and later on Benjamin Grosvenor is the soloist in Busoni's gargantuan Piano Concerto and there is more Busoni with his Concert Overture. Other unusual works included Zemlinsky's The Mermaid, Grace William's Concert Overture, Louise Farrenc's Overture No. 1 and Symphony No. 3, a work by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's daughter Avril, music by Grażyna Bacewicz and Augusta Holmes, Josef Suk's mammoth Asrael Symphony performed by the Czech Philharmonic, Column inches have already been expanded on this year's collaborations with non-classical performers. Frankly, they make an interesting mix.Florence Welch, of indie-rock band Florence + The Machine, makes her BBC Proms debut, and only UK appearance this year, to perform her lauded BRIT Award-winning 2009 album Lungs, with Jules Buckley and his orchestraJordan Rakei makes his BBC […]
2024-04-23 14:18:48
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