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2023-10-18 08:08:00
The nominations for the 2023 Ivors Classical Awards have been announced, and we take a little look at some of this year's nominees
Jasdeep Singh Degun (Photo: Robert Leslie)Nominated for his opera OrpheusThe nominations for the 2023 Ivors Classical Awards have been announced, and we take a little look at some of this year's nominees as well as highlighting those nominees to whom we have spoken in more depth.This year, 36 works have been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award across eight categories. 44% of the shortlist are first-time nominees, including: Jasdeep Singh Degun, nominated for his opera Orpheus (see my recent interview with Jasdeep)Simon Knighton, nominated for his orchestral work Sound Sculpture No. 7Angela Elizabeth Slater, nominated for her large ensemble work Through the Fading HourDobrinka Tabakova, nominated for her community & participation work Swarm FanfaresThree composers have received two nomination Brett Dean, for his orchestral works Cello Concerto and In This Brief MomentBrian Irvine, for his operas Least Like the Other: Searching for Rosemary Kennedy and Scorched Earth TrilogyHannah Kendall, for her chamber work Even sweetness can scratch the throat and […]
2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
[…] to illness) plunging himself wholeheartedly into this lonesome and anguished character in a telling and surefooted performance, with Elizabeth Llewellyn as Ellen Orford, and Simon Bailey as Captain Balstrode.Britten: Peter Grimes - Rudy Williams, Elizabeth Llewellyn - English National Opera (Photo: Tom Bowles)And the anguished cry of Peter Grimes ‘I hear those voices that will not be drowned’ - deeply etched in Maggi Hambling’s 2003 sculpture Scallop on Aldeburgh’s north beach - penned by Montagu Slater whose libretto derives from George Crabbe’s 1810 poem The Borough and heard in the passage ‘Go there!’ (act 2, scene 2) is a lovely and inviting aria and thoughtfully sung with intensity and feeling by Findon. He looked the part of Grimes through and through and suspiciously alert to all the hypocrites and gossips of the Borough he shuns. And one of the big scenes of the opera centres on Auntie, landlady of The […]
2023-01-29 01:04:00
San Francisco Opera 2023-24
[…] My friend Mark Berry reviewed it at CG and liked it better the second time under the revival director, who is also directing this revival.Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, libretto by Rhiannon Giddens, Omar. John Kennedy/Jamez McCorkle (Omar), Taylor Raven (Fatima), Brittany Rene (Julie), Norman Garrett (Abdul and Abe), Daniel Okulitsch (Johnson and Owen), Barry Banks (Auctioneer and Taylor). SFO co-commission. Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore. Ramon Tebar/Pene Pati (Nemorino), Slávka Zámečníková (Adina), David Bižić (Belcore), Renato Girolami (Dulcamara). Production new to SFO, by Daniel Slater. Summer 2024: Mozart, Die Zauberflote. Kim/Amitai Pati (Tamino), Christina Gansch (Pamina), Lauri Vasar (Papageno), Kwangchul Youn (Sarastro), Anna Simińska (Queen of the Night), Zhengyi Bai (Monastatos). No Papagena announced. Production new to SF, by Barrie Kosky, set in the 1920s and using a lot of animation. It's been done in LA and Chicago and is popular. Kaija Saariaho, Innocence. Clément Mao-Takacs/Ruxandra Donose, Claire de Sevigne, Rod GIlfry, Miles Mykkanen, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Lucy Shlton, Vilma Jaa. US premiere, SFO co-production. "Sung in English, Finnish, Czech, Romanian, […]
2022-07-26 10:55:00
Young Composers & Young Conductor
[…] the country, who will each write 4-minute works for full orchestra. These short works will be given their world premieres in a celebration of new music by the CBSO, conducted by Clark Rundell at Symphony Hall on 29 January 2023. The composers in question are, Anna Appleby, Kristina Arakelyan, Tyriq Baker, Stephane Crayton, Nathan James Dearden, Benjamin Graves, Millicent B James, Joel Järventausta, Chloe Knibbs, Ryan Latimer, Florence Anna Maunders, Ben Nobuto, Laurence Osborn, Rakhi Singh, Angela Slater, Aileen Sweeney, Liam Taylor-West, Héloïse Werner, Bethan Morgan-Williams and Yfat Zoul Zisso. Congratulations to all concerned. Further details from CBSO website.Tom Fetherstonhaugh (Photo BSO)Tom Fetherstonhaugh is the new Assistant Conductor at Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, a bursary-supported training position is designed to offer a platform to build professional experience through performance opportunities and mentoring from the BSO’s world-leading conductors and musicians, which include chief conductor Kirill Karabits, principal guest conductor Mark Wigglesworth, and associate guest conductor […]
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