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2024-02-10 09:27:00
A Star Next to the Moon: Stephen McNeff on his new opera, based on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, a seminal novel of magic realism
[…] Páramo as the title.Stephen's earlier opera, also with a libretto by Aoife Mannix, Beyond the Garden [see my article], which premiered in Slovenia in 2019, received its UK premiere in 2022 with performances at the Lichfield Festival and the Three Choirs Festival, but he is still hoping for a London premiere. His other operas have also included Vivienne, about T.S. Eliot's first wife [see my review, and also on CD] and Banished, based on Steven Gooch's play about the first women transported to Australia, Female Transport [see my review].Stephen McNeff’s latest opera, A Star Next to the Moon, receives its world premiere at The Guildhall School on 26 February 2024, at the Silk Street Theatre. Full details from the Barbican website.Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogHorns galore: incandescent playing from […]
2023-08-29 06:27:00
Giordano: Fedora - Charne Rochford, Sky Ingram - IF Opera (Photo: LAIMA)Giordano: Fedora; Sky Ingram, Charne Rochford, Lorena Paz Nieto, Alexey Gusev, director: John Wilkie, Bristol Ensemble, conductor: Oliver Gooch; IF Opera at Belcombe CourtA young cast and an admirably lucid production bring out the passion and melodic charms of Giordano's thrillerUmberto Giordani's 1898 opera Fedora doesn't get out often enough. You can find plenty off reason why it shouldn't work, but those sort of criteria apply equally to operas firmly in the canon, and there is plenty of music in the piece of a quality to make an spending an evening in the theatre with Fedora a rewarding experience.At IF Opera, director John Wilkie [see my recent interview with John] gave Fedora (seen 26 August 2023) a good rethinking. Conducted by Oliver Gooch (IF Opera's artistic director) with the Bristol Ensemble in the pit, the production featured Sky Ingram as Fedora, Charne Rochford […]
2022-10-07 04:00:00
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches & Orchestral Works (Charles Groves, David Atherton & Roy Goodman)
Grace Williams (1906 - 1977):01 Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes * (1940) [11'03]02 - 05 Carillons for Oboe & Orchestra * (1965 rev. 1975) [10'31]06 - 09 Penillion ~ (1955) [15'49]10 - 12 Trumpet Concerto * (1963) [13'27]13 - 17 Sea Sketches (1944) ^ [18'55]Anthony Camden- oboe, Howard Snell- trumpet; London Symphony Orchestra * and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ~ conducted by Charles Groves; English Chamber Orchestra ^ conducted by David AthertonLyrita SRCD323 [recorded May 1971~ and November 1973* for EMI; January 1970^ for Decca; this compilation issued 1995][CD-rip; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans]Recording venues: Abbey Road Studios, London, Afan Lido, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales and Kingsway Hall, LondonRecording engineers: Robert Gooch, Stuart Eltham and James Lock; Producers: John Willan, Brian Culverhouse and James MallinsonFor anybody who caught the British music concert conducted by Andrew Manze at this year's Proms, here is one of the very few recordings of the Welsh […]
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2022-08-05 07:51:00
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