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2024-04-05 08:55:00
West Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season
[…] Kirsty Hopkins, from The Sixteen, was the previous artistic director]. Tom thinks that this new role is interesting both for him and for the company, as he brings a singers point of view to the artistic directorship having sung as a principal both in the UK and abroad. He is aware of the singers' point of view.He is currently involved in planning the 2025 season which will have a Shakespeare theme with productions of Verdi's Macbeth, Cole Porter's Kiss me Kate and Bellini's Capuletti e Montecchi. Tom points out that whilst there are plenty of opportunities still for UK-based singers with lyric voices, those with fuller voices can miss out so he feels that offering opportunities for Verdi's Macbeth is important.Our discussion returns to the importance of supporting singers, and his new role at West Green has given Tom a chance to step back and look at the industry. Life is difficult […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-04 19:21:12
BSO Announces Subscription Season
[…] all these musical forces—orchestra, choruses, eight soloists, organ—together again. “We are also proud to honor the works of Ludwig van Beethoven through performances of the complete symphonies, presented chronologically in consecutive programs, as under BSO Music Director Serge Koussevitzky in March 1927. “Dmitri Shostakovich’s works reflect the deep complexities and abysses of human existence—from anguish and darkness to joy and hope—and his music resonates strongly with us and our times. After presenting the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk earlier this year, the BSO’s Shostakovich recording project—for which the brilliant musicians and recording team have won four Grammys—is nearing its completion. Nonetheless, the journey of discovery and rediscovery always continues, and I am looking forward to our Shostakovich programs at the end of the coming season, followed by a European tour and our participation in the wonderful and ambitious Shostakovich Festival in Leipzig together with the Gewandhausorchester in May 2025. “This […]
2024-03-15 13:29:43
Riverfront, NewportArts Council of Wales’s decision to axe its funding for Mid Wales Opera means this effective and cogent production is likely their last on this scaleWith the peremptory axing of all its funding last September, Mid Wales Opera has already been dealt a deathblow by the Arts Council of Wales. The company’s strong and sterling new Verdi staging – now confirmed as its last full-scale production – makes the council’s decision look all the more ludicrous.Fielding a cast of 17, and the 16 musicians of Ensemble Cymru plus a community chorus, this may not be full-scale Verdi, but there is absolutely no compromise on integrity. With some fine musical characterisation from the principals as well as those in cameo roles, and a particularly blazing finale to act one, there is a wonderful sense of a defiant upholding of MWO values by artistic director/designer Richard Studer and music director Jonathan […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-27 22:55:11
Jared Hackworth What barriers bar the uninitiated from classical concerts? Could the BSO maintain its Big Five prestige and remain accessible to new audiences? To investigate, I attended all three of the BSO’s January concerts: a sold-out presentation of León, Ravel, and Stravinsky; a concert production of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of the Mitsensk District; and a “Casual Friday” concert of Stravinsky. I found dwindling audiences entirely enraptured by the music of one of the world’s best orchestras. Covid had placed performing arts in freefall. Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, said this week that “For most people, the pandemic is over. For arts institutions, we’re still in it,” reporting the need to “withdraw $40 million in additional emergency funds” due to a capacity rate of around “73%.” The New York Philharmonic’s audience is 62% over 55. During the pandemic, these attendance rates plummeted—in 2019, the Pittsburgh Symphony sold […]
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