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A radical new look: full line-up for Nevill Holt's 2024 festival
The full line-up for the radical new 2024 Nevill Holt Festival has now been announced. Running from 1 to 26 June 2024, guest festival director James Dacre's programme features opera, classical music, jazz and contemporary, alongside visual arts, talks and literature.This is a very different style of festival to previously, instead of two main operas there is a wide mix of events intended to tempt people into repeat visits. Also, the wider estate is more involved with an outdoor art exhibition, come for a concert and stay for Anthony Caro's sculpture.The musical events place quite a reliance on established artists and I miss a young artists strand, though casting for the opera has not yet been announced.Opera remains a strong strand in the festival, there will be six performances of Melly Still's new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, with Finnegan Downie Dear conducting Britten Sinfonia. And Finnegan Downie Dear returns […]
2022-11-07 12:46:17
CBSO Centre, BirminghamBirmingham Contemporary Music Group’s latest programme featured contrasting works by Edmund Hunt and Richard Baker, with evocative live electronics With works by just two composers, there was an elegant symmetry to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s latest programme, which was conducted by
2021-12-12 12:35:39
Hoddinott Hall, CardiffSarah Lianne Lewis’s first works performed by BBC Now were brash and buoyant, while John Woolrich leant beauty and Ravel provided festive relief Creatures of Dust and Dreams is the first of Sarah Lianne Lewis’s works to be performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales since she was named as their composer affiliate a year ago. In this 10-minute piece, given its premiere by the orchestra under the baton of Finnegan Downie Dear, Lewis sought to reflect on the intrinsic frailty of the individual against their potential for gaining strength by reaching out to others. Conceived in 2019, pre-Covid, Lewis nevertheless recognised its resonance with the fears and uncertainties of the pandemic experience. Quarter-tones lent a brash edge to the buoyancy of the opening, with clarinet multiphonics adding to the abrasive element and an ongoing sense of unease, all of which contrasted wildly with the more straightforward […]
2021-08-23 15:44:41
Folk ritual and drama: Mozart's Don Giovanni at Nevill Holt Opera rises to the challenge
Mozart: Don Giovanni - Roman Ackley - Nevill Holt Opera(photo Lloyd Winters) Mozart Don Giovanni; Seán Boylan, Nicholas Crawley, Anna Patalong, Aoife Miskelly, Joshua Owen Mills, Olivia Warburton, Benedict Nelson, dir: Jack Furness, Shadwell:Ensemble, cond: Finnegan Downie Dear; Nevill Holt Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 22 August 2021 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) A profoundly satisfying production, using disturbing English folk-ritual alongside some vividly theatrical elementsMozart's Don Giovanni is an opera which takes place in an urban landscape, much of it at night, so setting the piece outdoors in the middle of the afternoon might seem something of a stretch. But for their production of Mozart's Don Giovanni (seen Sunday 22 August 2021), Nevill Holt Opera and director Jack Furness have risen to the challenge. Conducted by Finnegan Downie Dear and with the new Shadwell:Ensemble, the production featured Seán Boylan as Don Giovanni, Nicholas Crawley as Leporello, […]
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