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2022-04-16 09:20:18
From the Shenandoah Valley to Kensington Gardens: I chat to Ella Marchment about her new role at Shenandoah Conservatory & directing the UK premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women
Ella Marchment with the other founders of SWAP'ra, Madeleine Pierard, Anna Patalong, and Kitty Whately, and conductor Jessica Cottis at the 2018 gala Ella Marchment is a woman of many hats. I first came across her as the founder of Helios Collective when in 2013 they presented a triple bill called The Bear goes Walkabout with Walton's The Bear alongside two specially commissioned operas by Philip Ashworth and Joel Rust. And they premiered my opera The Genesis of Frankenstein in 2015. Since then she has founded the online project Opera Harmony, in direct response to the pandemic, co-founded the Opera Festival of Chicago (of which she is artistic director), co-founded SWAP’ra, a charity that supports women and parents working in opera, and she is currently an associate professor and the director of opera at Shenandoah Conservatory, and will be directing the UK premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women at […]
2022-04-13 00:11:22
VC LIVE | New Zealand's 2022 Whakatipu Music Festival [STARTS FRIDAY LIVE]
This year's Whakatipu Music Festival will showcase extraordinary music from New Zealand's leading musicians, emerging artists, and local talent, including soprano Madeleine Pierard, violinist Robin Wilson, flutist Bridget Douglas, pianist Stephen de Pledge and the Tararua Quartet. "Born from a place of change, the festival is a COVID-19 adaptation," Executive Director Anne Rodda this […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-12-14 12:37:00
[…] fearful of his friend’s fate, anxiously seeking the guidance and support of his mentor, Coyle. Susan Bullock reprises her fearsome Miss Wingrave, shaping the phrase and enunciating the text with clarity and control, even as her fictional ego descends into histrionic ranting. Richard Berkeley-Steele partners her as he did in 2014, singing with elegance as Sir Philip Wingrave, though he never quite commands and terrifies. Mrs Julian and Kate are a thoroughly nasty pair: Madeleine Pierard captures the former’s hyper-nervous restlessness while Kitty Whately is fittingly unsympathetic as Kate. Her mezzo-soprano is powerful and domineering, but always expressive, and her final duet with Owen creates terrific dramatic tension as he asks her to leave Paramore and share a new life with him. Kate fails Owen and, at the close, the tear-smudged black kohl that shadows her eyes doesn’t touch one’s heart. Only Spencer Coyle and his wife seem possessing of […]
2020-12-09 10:41:40
Back to its origins: Grange Park Opera returns Britten's television opera, Owen Wingrave, to its film roots in this darkly comic modern version
Britten: Owen Wingrave - Ross Ramgobin, Kitty Whately, James Way, Janis Kelly, Madeleine Pierard, Susan Bullock, Richard Berkeley Steele, William Dazeley - Grange Park Opera (video screen grab) Britten Owen Wingrave; Ross Ramgobin, Richard Berkeley Steele, William Dazeley, Janis Kelly, James Way, Susan Bullock, Madeleine Pierard, Kitty Whately, dir:Stephen Medcalf, cond; James Henshaw; Grange Park Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 December 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Grange Park Opera returns Britten's penultimate opera to the television medium for which it was written, in a striking, blackly comic modern version.Benjamin Britten's penultimate opera, Owen Wingrave is a strange and tricksy piece. Written for television in 1971, Britten intended it both for that medium and the stage. But following a small flurry of performances in the early 1970s, the work lay fallow until Glyndebourne's performance in the late 1990s (first on tour, with William Dazeley as Owen, […]
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