F. Flaxington Harker News
American composer (1876-1936)
- organ
- United States of America
- composer
Last update
2024-03-28
Refresh
2022-06-19 14:40:00
Tatiana – Anush HovhannisyanOnegin – Samuel Dale JohnsonLensky – Jack Roberts Olga – Emma StannardMme Larina – Amanda RoocroftFilipievna – Kathleen Wilkinson Prince Gremin – Matthew Stiff M. Triquet – Joseph Buckmaster Zaretsky/Captain – Konrad Jaromin Solo tenor – Phillip CostovskiJulia Burbach (director) takis (designs) Robert Price (lighting) Jo Meredith (movement) Opera Holland Park Chorus (chorus director: Richard Harker) City of London Sinfonia Lada Valešová (conductor) Eugene Onegin (Samuel Dale Johnson). Images: Ali Wright Sharing a single set by takis with Carmen—typically resourceful, sustainable practice for Opera Holland Park—Julia Burbach’s Eugene Onegin proved a puzzling affair. The idea, I think, was to move between monochrome and colour, perhaps playing with memory and/or dreaming, but too much remained obscure or arbitrary (at least for me). Burbach seemed unsure whether to opt for realism, something more symbolic, or even a coherent melange of the two. Presumably, the uniform light colours of the first […]
2022-06-14 09:51:00
Carmen – Kezia BienekDon José – Oliver Johnston Escamillo – Thomas Mole Micaëla – Alison Langer Frasquita – Natasha Agarwal Mercédès – Ellie Edmonds Zuniga – Jacob Phillips Moralès – Jevan McAuley Le Dancaïre – Themba Mvula Le Remendado – Mike Bradley Cecilia Stinton (director) takis (set designs) Johanne Jensen (lighting) Isabel Baquero (choreography) Children’s Chorus from Cardinal Vaughan School Opera Holland Park Chorus (chorus director: Richard Harker) City of London Sinfonia Lee Reynolds (conductor)Image: Ali Wright Carmen was the last opera I saw before the end of the world. Not necessarily what I would have chosen; for many of my friends it was Fidelio, whose absence from my truncated Beethoven Year I regretted deeply. But then none of us chose pandemic, lockdown, death, misery, and the rest. It was good, though, to have opportunity to exorcise another pandemic ghost, albeit in different guise. Cecilia Stinton’s new Holland Park production has […]
2021-07-15 16:28:00
Raised Eyebrows
Santa Fe Opera House and Parking Lot Photo by Lisa Hirsch The new John Corigliano / Mark Adamo opera, The Lord of Cries, will have its world premiere on Saturday, July 17, 2021. That's in a little over two days from now. So it was...surprising....to receive the following in a press release from Santa Fe Opera: Apprentice Singer Kathryn Henry will assume the role of Lucy Harker inJohn Corigliano and Mark Adamo’s world premiere opera The Lord of Cries opening on Saturday, July 17, replacing Susanna Phillips. The rest of the press release is about the opera, the season, cast changes announced previously, etc. The above doesn't include anything about why Phillips is being replaced, not even the usual "...has withdrawn for personal reasons." The last time I can remember a singer leaving a production this close to opening for reasons other than illness or injury was back in 2007, when David Gockley fired Hope Briggs from […]
2021-06-15 11:47:00
Holland Park Count Almaviva – Julien Van MellaertsCountess Almaviva – Nardus Williams Susanna – Elizabeth Karani Figaro – Ross Ramgobin Cherubino – Samantha Price Marcellina – Victoria Simmonds Bartolo – James Cleverton Basilio, Don Curzio – Daniel Norman Barbarina – Claire Lees Antonio – Henry Grant Kerswell First Bridesmaid – Naomi Kilby Second Bridesmaid – Susie Buckle Oliver Platt (director) takis (designs), applied on the set for La traviata by Cordelia Chisholm Rory Beaton (lighting) Caitlin Fretwell Walsh (movement) Opera Holland Park Chorus (chorus master: Richard Harker) City of London Sinfonia George Jackson (conductor) What a welcome return to Holland Park this proved to be. Glorious weather helped, of course—quite a change from an earlier visit to Glyndebourne with altogether necessary overcoat and umbrella—but the achievement of Opera Holland Park first of all in putting on a season at all, let alone with its customary artistic success, deserves the highest praise. […]
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): H...