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2024-01-22 09:15:00
UK-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, offers a preview of Northern Opera Group’s 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival which includes a brand-new opera on Sherlock Holmes.
Running from 17 August to 8 September 2024, the 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival, programmed by Northern Opera Group, offers audiences a blend of world premières alongside exciting collaborations designed for the whole community. The festival’s renowned for combining new productions of rare operas peppered by a wide programme of talks, panel discussions, workshops and other events across the late August Bank Holiday weekend. For instance, the 2023 festival featured the UK première of Robert Rodriguez’ opera Frida alongside a collaboration with the Northern School of Contemporary Dance on Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires in a healthy and inspiring four-week programme of opera and music inspired by Latin America. Other recent productions include Charles Villiers Stanford’s Much Ado About Nothing (2019) and Handel’s Silla (2022). And reaching out to communities in Leeds and Bradford, Northern Opera Group is committed in enabling people of all ages and abilities to take part in opera […]
2024-01-15 16:11:56
Schein and many other, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: January 15, 2024. Schein and much more. Several composers were born this week: Niccolò Piccinni (b. 1/16/1728), a nearly forgotten Italian composer who was famous in his day for his Neapolitan opera buffa; Cesar Cui (b. 1/18/1835), a Russian composer of French descent (his father entered Russia with Napoleon) and a member of the Mighty Five; Emmanuel Chabrier (b. 1/18/1841), a mostly self-taught French composer, whose España is his best-known symphonic work but who also wrote some very nice songs; Ernest Chausson (b. 1/20/1855), another Frenchman, who wrote the Poème for the violin and orchestra which entered the repertoire of all virtuoso violinists; Walter Piston (b. 1/20/1894), a prolific and prominent American composer of the 20th century who often used Schoenberg’s 12-note method; Alexander Tcherepnin (b. 1/20/1899), a Russian composer who was born into a prominent musical family (his father, Nikolai Tcherepnin was a noted […]
2023-03-22 08:24:00
Second Hong Kong International Conducting Competition (Round 1). March 22, 2023.
Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall. Front Stalls (Seat H13, HK$50).RepertoireStravinsky Concerto in D for String Orchestra: I Vivaceand on of the following works, determined by a draw:Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72bMozart Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, K543: I Adagio -AllegroCandidates (per the brochure)Rodolfo Barraez, 29 (Venezuela)Vicente Chavarria, 34 (USA/UK)Linhan Cui, 28 (China)Taichi Fukumura, 30 (USA/Japan)Mark Hui, 31 (Hong Kong)*Edmon Levon, 34 (Spain)Omer Shteinhart, 27 (Israel)*Yi Wei, 26 (China)Yao-Yu Wu, 33 (Taiwan)*Nathaniel Efthimiou, 30 (USA/Finland)Roc Fargas, 26 (Spain)Kyrian Friedenberg, 24 (USA/Canada)Brian Liao, 30 (Taiwan)Mikhail Mering, 31 (Israel)Abner Padrino, 30 (Venezuela)*Satoshi Yoneda, 26 (Japan)* ones we saw in the roundWe saw advertisements about this event posted around MTR stations, and thought it would be interesting to attend one to see how these competitions work. That it only costs HK$50 (discounted price for seniors) for four hours of music makes it a no-brainer if there are not other pressing matters […]
All the conducting master class
2022-08-21 11:38:00
Conductors Luis Toro Araya, Rodolfo Barráez, Chloé Dufresne, and Linhan Cui will work with the orchestra and Music Director Gustavo Dudamel July 13, 2022 The Los Angeles Philharmonic announced the four conductors selected as the 2023/23 Dudamel Fellows: Luis Toro Araya (Chile), Rodolfo Barráez (Venezuela), Chloé Dufresne (France), and Linhan Cui (China). Developed by the LA Phil’s Music Director Gustavo Dudamel, the Fellowship Program has been […]
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