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2023-03-23 08:28:28
Three young men will contest tonight’s Donatella Flick... The post Three men left in LSO conducting final appeared first on Slippedisc.
2023-02-24 11:10:00
Review of Hallé concert with Boris Giltburg and conducted by Alexandre Bloch
Boris Giltburg cr Sasha GusovThe Hallé like to bill each concert with a title these days: what good luck that this one was given that of the music played in its second half, Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, as the conductor, soloist and piano concerto originally advertised had all changed by the time it happened. So we had the chance to witness Alexandre Bloch’s debut with the orchestra. He’s no stranger to Manchester, though, having been a junior conducting fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music, after the Paris Conservatoire. He won the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in 2012, and I remember his part in the 2013 Chester Festival, appearing with Manchester Camerata, which was followed by a move to the London Symphony Orchestra as assistant conductor. He too the Hallé through Debussy’s Prélude à L’Après-midi d’un faune first, with the opening magically played by Amy Yule, starting from a very […]
2022-11-11 12:00:00
Twenty finalists have been announced for the 2023 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2022-06-05 15:52:31
Opera singer with a remarkable theatrical presence once described as ‘the Cleopatra of the lyric stage’The mezzo-soprano Anne Howells, who has died aged 81, was much loved and admired by audiences and critics alike. It was doubtless her remarkable stage presence that inspired the then editor of Opera magazine, Rodney Milnes, reviewing her in the title role of Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène for Scottish Opera in 1995, to describe her as “the Cleopatra of the lyric stage”. Referring to her opulent, warm tone, Milnes also admired her ability “to reduce an audience to helpless laughter with the barely perceptible Flick of an eyebrow”. The combination of those stage skills and a vocal delivery of the highest order (maturing over the years but seemingly never tiring) ensured her enduring popularity.
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