Gail Robinson News
singer (1946-2008)
- soprano
- United States of America
- musician, opera singer
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2024-04-22 08:37:00
Mozart: Don Giovanni - Hurn Court Opera (Photo: Patrick Frost, BlackStar Pictures)Mozart: Don Giovanni: Sam Young, Samuel Lom, Lizzie Rydeer, Daniel Gray Bell, Hanna O'Brien, Harrison Chéné-Gration, Tilly Goodwin, William Stevens, dir: Joy Robinson, cond: Lynton Atkinson; Hurn Court Opera at Theatre Royal, WinchesterReviewed by James McConnachie, 11 April 2024A dedicated group of vastly talented singers – young singers – riding on the delight of an audience that was evidently as full of newbies as buffsEven lifelong opera-lovers can sometimes feel dispirited. Opera survives on the support and generosity and love of a generation born within 20 years of the war – but anyone looking around them in the stalls, or the grand tier, or the balcony or, frankly, even the amphitheatre of the Royal Opera House might be forgiven for wondering where the next generation is going to come from. Is it economics that is keeping out the […]
2024-03-30 09:28:00
Song belongs to us all and should be available to all: artistic director, Joseph Middleton on Leeds Lieder's boldest and most colourful festival yet
Discovering Lieder - Leeds Lieder 2023 (Photo: Ed Robinson)Leeds Lieder is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year whilst co-incidentally, artistic director Joseph Middleton also celebrates 10 years in post. This year's Leeds Lieder Festival, On Wings of Song, runs from 13 to 21 April 2024 with around 30 events at venues as diverse as the Howard Assembly Room, Leeds Conservatoire, Leeds Minster, Pudsey Town Hall, the Hyde Park Book Club and the Sikh Centre.Joseph Middleton, artistic director of Leeds LiederJoseph explains that quite a lot has changed over the years. The festival began as a biennial event, with a guest artistic director, and lasted two or three days. Early on, the festival moved to being annual and now is a nine-day event, but Leeds Lieder also now presents a year-round programme in collaboration with partners like Opera North and the Leeds Conservatoire. They have also grown their Young Artists Programme and […]
2024-03-02 09:03:00
Shamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change
[…] 16 March, he also has a concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, whilst his Summer is still somewhat up in the air. But in the Autumn he will be returning to; 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands for the International Vocal Competition. He has also been playing the piano a lot, and gave a two-piano recital with a pupil, performing music by Mozart, Schumann and Saint-Saens's Variations on a Theme by Beethoven, plus a paraphrase on Offenbach's Robinson Crusoe. (And they will be giving a piano duet recital too). He comments that there is a lot of good repertoire for two pianos, a lot of it not often performed partly through the logistics of having two pianos.He remains enthusiastic about performing rarer repertoire, he is not giving up on that and adds that he is not giving up at all.Stanford's Shamus O'Brien is released on 8 March 2024 by Retrospect Opera. David Parry […]
2024-02-18 17:00:58
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Jamez McCorkle, Cierra Byrd, Daniel Okulitch, Brianna J. Robinson, and Neal Ferreira in a broadcast of Rhiannon Giddens’s and Michael Abels’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera from Boston last spring
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