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2023-10-07 09:09:00
Astonishing that no-one has heard or heard of the work: Ella Marchment on directing Camille Erlanger's L'Aube rouge at Wexford
[…] off the radar.[Note: Camille Erlanger should not be confused with his contemporary, the Anglo-French composer Baron Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger (1868 – 1943) whose works include an opera, Tess (to a libretto by Luigi Illica after Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles) which premiered at the San Carlo in Naples, and a ballet, Les cents baisers which was performed by the Ballets Russes and choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska]Ella had not come across the Erlanger's L'Aube rouge before Rosetta Cucchi, Wexford's artistic director, asked her to direct the piece. Now, Ella finds it astonishing that no-one has ever heard of or even heard the work. Yet, during his lifetime he was a great success and called the French Puccini. Ella calls L'Aube rouge a real Verismo opera, there are no ensembles or duets and has the text word for word. And the music is incredible, she describes it as beautiful and sumptuous with every […]
2022-07-29 07:38:00
Welcome to L'isola di Alcina: Glyndebourne's first production of Handel's opera
[…] Aeneas at the BBC Proms - opera reviewOur Future in Your Hands: Kate Whitley's new oratorio for Buxton used a chorus of children from local schools and students from the RNCM to terrific effect - concert reviewBaroque gem: Hasse's early serenata Antonio e Cleopatra gets an intriguing modern staging in Buxton with some stylish singing - opera reviewNot a kilt in sight: Jacopo Spirei's fascinating production of Rossini's La donna de lago at Buxton - opera reviewRediscovered rarities, new opera and young artists: I chat to Rosetta Cucchi, artistic director of Wexford Festival Opera - interviewome
2022-07-27 06:35:00
French-style elegance, Italian lyricism and virtuosity: Adrian Butterfield in Leclair's violin sonatas
[…] Aeneas at the BBC Proms - opera reviewOur Future in Your Hands: Kate Whitley's new oratorio for Buxton used a chorus of children from local schools and students from the RNCM to terrific effect - concert reviewBaroque gem: Hasse's early serenata Antonio e Cleopatra gets an intriguing modern staging in Buxton with some stylish singing - opera reviewNot a kilt in sight: Jacopo Spirei's fascinating production of Rossini's La donna de lago at Buxton - opera reviewRediscovered rarities, new opera and young artists: I chat to Rosetta Cucchi, artistic director of Wexford Festival Opera - interviewFarewell Comrade: Music written in the shadow of death, Theresienstadt 1941-1945 at Temple Music - concert reviewome
2022-07-26 09:31:00
Prom 14: Flavours of late romanticism, Yamada and the CBSO in Rachmaninov and Ethel Smyth
[…] Aeneas at the BBC Proms - opera reviewOur Future in Your Hands: Kate Whitley's new oratorio for Buxton used a chorus of children from local schools and students from the RNCM to terrific effect - concert reviewBaroque gem: Hasse's early serenata Antonio e Cleopatra gets an intriguing modern staging in Buxton with some stylish singing - opera reviewNot a kilt in sight: Jacopo Spirei's fascinating production of Rossini's La donna de lago at Buxton - opera reviewRediscovered rarities, new opera and young artists: I chat to Rosetta Cucchi, artistic director of Wexford Festival Opera - interviewFarewell Comrade: Music written in the shadow of death, Theresienstadt 1941-1945 at Temple Music - concert reviewInterior life: Malcolm Martineau and friends in the complete songs of Henri Duparc - record reviewHome
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