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2024-04-05 08:55:00
West Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season
Thomas Elwin as Lensky in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at West Green House Opera in 2021(Photo: Matthew Williams-Ellis)West Green House Opera returns this Summer for its fourth season in the magical theatre on the lake. Running from 19 to 28 July 2024 the season features Verdi's Falstaff, Rossini's Il barbiere di Sivigla and Puccini's Suor Angelica. As ever, one of the non-musical attractions of the festival is the setting, with Marylyn Abbott's gardens form both a spectacular operatic backdrop and a source of pre-opera delight.The opera company also has a new artistic director, Tom Elwin. Best known as a tenor, he was Lensky in West Green's 2021 production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin [see review on OperaToday] and his roles last year included Gennaro in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia with English Touring Opera [see my review], Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme also with ETO and Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore with Wild Arts [see my review].For Tom, one […]
2024-04-04 06:47:00
States of Innocence: Ed Hughes' new opera after Paradise Lost premieres at the Brighton Festival with Sir John Tomlinson
Milton Dictating to His Daughter, Henry Fuseli (1794)The year 2024 marks the 350th anniversary of Milton’s death however it is a brave dramatist who takes on the epic poem Paradise Lost, completed in 1667 by John Milton (1608-1674). But that is what composer Ed Hughes and writer Peter Cant have done. Their new opera, States of Innocence, an opera after Paradise Lost, premieres at the Brighton Festival on 19 May 2024. The work has been specially conceived and developed for the Brighton Festival 2024.For States of Innocence, librettist Peter Cant drew on Milton's poem, and The Woman’s Bible (1895) by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which radically challenged the orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man. In the opera we encounter poet and republican John Milton as a character on stage, dreaming of Angels and the Tree of Knowledge; and, now blind, and living in fear of reprisals from the restored Stuart monarchy, dictating […]
2024-03-28 04:00:00
EASTER PASSION MUSIC 2024 [24 CDs]
Again a collection of Easter Passion Music, from The Middle Ages to The 20th Century, brought together by the members Cadfael, Cunctator and DutchPublisher.We wish you all an enjoyable time!Planctus Mariae - Music of Holy Week from the Late Middle Agesensemble für frühe musik augsburgRecorded 1994Label: Christophorus CHR 77147Download 1fichier gofile workuploadLa voce della passionePassion chants between theMiddle Ages & Sicilian folkloreNoemi La Terra, Lamentori di MontedoroEnsemble DonnafugataRecorded March & October 2013Label: Raumklang RK 3301Download 1fichier pixel workuploadHeinrich Isaac (c1450-1517)Missa Paschalis, with organ verses by Hans Buchner (1483-1538)Cantus Modalis, Rebecca Stewart - directionRecorded 2012/13Label: ambitus amb 96 965Download 1fichier gofile workuploadLudovico G. da Viadana (1564-1645), Franc. Soler (c1625-1688),Carlo D. Cossoni (1623-1700), Giovanni P. Cima (c1570-1622),Giovanni F. Sances (1600-1679), Giovanni M. Asola (c1532-1609),Gerolamo Ballione (1575-1608)In Musica VeritasRecorded 2011Label: Ad Vitam Records AV 120315Download 1fichier gofile workuploadHeinrich Schütz (1585-1672)Historia de Auferstehung, SWV 50And other vocal worksLa Chapelle RhénaneBenoit Haller - directionRecorded July 2007Label: K617 K617199Download […]
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2024-03-11 05:05:00
Johns Hopkins University: Peabody Institute : The Peabody Preparatory Location Baltimore, MD, 21202 Open Date Jan 08, 2024 Description With approximately 2,500 students passing through its doors every week, the Peabody Preparatory is Baltimore’s premier community school for the performing arts. It is open to students of all ages and levels of ability, with offerings […]
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