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A Vast Obscurity: SongEasel bringings song celebrations to South East London including Gabriel Fauré's centenary
[…] Artists will be performing the composer's complete songs across an entire afternoon on 12 May at St Laurence's Church, Catford. Then on 31 May at St. Catherine‘s Church, Telegraph Hill, soprano Ella Taylor and pianist Jocelyn Freeman chart the course of Lord Byron's poem Don Juan in music including the first performance of a new commission from Emily Hazrati setting texts by Dr Joseph Spence (Master of Dulwich College and librettist of Dani Howard's opera, The Yellow Wallpaper).Soprano Francesca Chiejina joins Jocelyn Freeman at St Laurence's Church, Catford on 16 June for a concert celebrating Shakespeare with music by from the Baroque to the present day including Arne, McDowall, Samuel, Ruiz, and Finzi's Let us garlands bring. Finally, Mark Padmore and Jocelyn Freeman close the festival with The Wanderer and the Scholar on 21 June at St Stephen's Church, Dulwich by returning to two figures associated with Lord Byron, his Dulwich classmates, the celebrated pedestrian Captain […]
2022-06-25 08:49:40
Obsessed by voices: pianist Dylan Perez on recording the complete songs of Samuel Barber
[…] in Die schöne Müllerin in the original language, Roderick Williams and Ella O’Neill in Winterreise in Jeremy Sams’ English translation, Winter Journey, and BBC New Generation Artists Ema Nikolovska and Kunal Lahiry in Schwanengesang with the world premiere of The Lake, composed by Errollyn Wallen.In response to Opera Holland Park giving the UK premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women this Summer, the Opera in Song series concludes with an American Song Gala with soprano Francesca Chiejina, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, tenor Frederick Jones, baritone Alex Otterburn and Dylan on piano in a range of American song from art song to Broadway. It is an evening which Dylan hopes will show what American song can sound like and how operatic it can be, with lots of interest including music rarely sung in the UK.Then on 4 July, Nicky Spence and Dylan will be performing Barber's Knoxville at Wigmore Hall as part of […]
2022-02-28 19:13:00
Hackney Empire Theatre Marcello – Michel de Souza Rodolfo – Luciano Botelho Colline – Trevor Eliot Bowes Schaunard – Themba Mvula Benoît, Parpignol – Matthew McKinney Mimì – Francesca Chiejina Musetta – Jenny Stafford Alcindoro – Phil Wilcox Policeman – Aidan Edwards James Conway (director) Christopher Moon-Little (revival director) Rory Beaton (lighting) Florence de Maré, Neil Irish (designs) Chorus and Orchestra of Chorus of English Touring Opera Dionysis Grammenos (conductor) Still they come—and come again, as in this English Touring Opera revival of James Conway’s production of La bohème. The work’s popularity shows no sign of abating, and why, one might ask, should it? It is a fair question, up to a point, especially when considered vis-à-vis the many lesser works that make up much of opera’s benighted ‘core repertoire’. It is a well-nigh perfectly crafted work, remarkably concise and accomplishing so much within four short acts, one might be tempted […]
2022-02-27 10:36:25
Puccini: La Boheme - Michel de Souza, April Koyejo-Audiger, Francesca Chiejina, Luciano Botelho - English Touring Opera (Photo Richard Hubert Smith) Puccini La Boheme; Francesca Chiejina, Luciano Botelho, April Koyejo-Audiger, Michel de Souza, Trevor Eliot Bowes, Themba Mvula, dir: Christopher Moon-Little/James Conways, cond: Dionysis Grammenos; English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 26 February 2022 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Intelligent, well thought out, engaging, and moving, ETO revival of their 2015 production show Puccini's opera can engage both those new to the opera and those for whom the work is very familiarEnglish Touring Opera's Spring season opened at the Hackney Empire on Saturday 26 February 2022 with a revival directed by Christopher Moon-Little of James Conway's 2015 production of Puccini's La Boheme, Dionysis Grammenos conducted with Francesca Chiejina as Mimi, Luciano Botelho as Rodolfo, Michel de Souza as Marcello, Trevor Eliot Bowes as […]
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