Emmerich Kálmán News
Hungarian-born composer of operettas
- operetta
- Hungary, Austria, United States of America
- composer, conductor, film score composer
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2024-03-27
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2023-04-25 09:55:27
Astonishing events at Leipzig where Emmerich Kálmán’s little-known... The post Jump-in saves rare opera by singing it sight unseen appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-09-30 10:00:00
The artist’s new book and exhibit, “Women Holding Things,” explore all that women carry.
2022-02-07 19:12:00
Coliseum Marcello – Charles Rice Rodolfo – Adam Gilbert, David Junghoom Kim Colline – William Thomas Schaunard – Benson Wilson Benoît, Alcindoro – Simon Butteriss Mimì – Sinéad Campbell-Wallace Parpignol – Adam Sullivan Musetta – Louise Alder Policeman – Paul Sheehan Official – Andrew Tinkler Jonathan Miller (director) Crispin Lord (revival director) Isabella Bywater (designs) Jean Kalman, Martin Doone (lighting) Chorus of the English National Opera (chorus director: Mark Biggins) Orchestra of the English National Opera Ben Glassberg (conductor) ENO La bohème 2022, company © Genevieve Girling This was, I think, the fourth time I have seen Jonathan Miller’s production of La bohème. It strikes me, in this revival directed by Crispin Lord, to have a good deal of life in it left. Indeed, previous reservations have largely vanished. It is not a complex piece of theatre, nor does it lead one especially to reassess […]
2021-02-06 10:34:36
Never say Never: back in February 2020 I chatted to Selina Cadell & Eliza Thompson of OperaGlass Works, now their production of Britten's The Turn of the Screw is released on film
Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson (Photo Patrick Cadell) When OperaGlass Works performed Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at Wilton's Music Hall in 2017, the company seemed to have appeared from nowhere. But, founded by Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson, OperaGlass Works has a significant background history. I met up with Selina and Eliza in a break from rehearsals at Wilton's back in February 2020, in anticipation of writing about their planned performances of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw at Wilton's. Days away from the production's opening, performances were cancelled and it became clear that the production as planned would not happen. Having rehearsed for five weeks, Selina and Eliza were reluctant to let go. A film director, Dominic Best, was recruited to direct with them, the orchestra was recorded at Cadogan Hall and the opera filmed at Wilton's. So the production has now come to fruition, albeit […]
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