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2021-07-05 09:55:44
Ensemble collaboration: Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music from Opera North and the Leeds Playhouse
[…] of Opera North cast in around a dozen roles. The cast included Dame Josephine Barstow as Madame Armfeldt, Stephanie Corley as Desiree Armfeldt, Lucy Sherman as Fredrika Armfeldt, Quirijn de Lang as Fredrik Egerman, Corinne Cowling as Anne Egerman, Laurence Kilsby as Henrik Egerman, Amy J Payne as Petra, Christopher Nairne as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, Helen Evora as Countess Charlotte Malcolm and Ivan Sharpe as Frid. The quintet was double cast and we saw Miranda Bevin, Amy Freston, Hazel Croft, James Davies and Stuart Laing. Designs were by Madeleine Boyd, lighting by Chris Davey, and choreography by Lucy Hind. Sebastian Frost was the sound designer and it is a tribute to his work that I hardly noticed it. Sondheim: A Little Night Music - Josephine Barstow - Opera North, Leeds Playhouse (Photo Sharron Wallace) The stage at the Leeds Playhouse is a surprisingly capacious place. […]
2020-01-27 09:30:31
Opera North's new production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene weaves the work's various stylistic strands into a compelling whole and showcases the superb talents of the chorus members
[…] eschewed the traditional brownstone facade for a more flexible structure, a skeletal staircase and balconies which formed the building's central space, but could double as the outside. Costumes were firmly 1940 (Christopher Turner as Lippo Fiorentino was even a GI), the era when the opera debuted. Elmer Rice's original play (with a whopping 50 named roles) appeared in 1929. Kurt Weill: Street Scene - Claire Pascoe, Byron Jackson, Amy J Payne, Richard Mosley-Evans, Miranda Bevin, John Savournin, Christopher Turner, Robert Hayward - Opera North (Photo Clive Barda) For the serious vein of the piece, the tragedy of the Maurrants (where Anna, restless and dissatisfied, is cheating on her husband Frank who ultimately kills her), Kurt Weill is firmly in operatic territory. But around them the music varies, as characters are introduced Weill replaces the operatic character arias by more Broadway inclined elements. It works, but requires careful musical and […]
2019-05-14 07:00:00
WMKYGov. Matt Bevin today announced Dajcor Aluminum Ltd., a Canadian manufacturer of extruded and fabricated aluminum products, plans to create up to 265 full.
2019-01-01 08:00:00
WMKYGov. Matt Bevin has announced Precision Pulley and Idler (PPI), a supplier of idlers, pulleys, bearings and other products to the major bulk and material.
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