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2021-11-09 08:33:48
Dr Haydn's London Academy: Sir Roger Norrington bid farewell to the podium with a final concert with the Royal Northern Sinfonia
Sir Roger Norrington (Photo Manfred Esser) In the early 1980s I went to a performance in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh where Roger Norrington conducted the London Classical Players in Heinrich Schütz's Musikalische Exequien. It was one of the defining performances of my early concert-going, and helped consolidate my love of historically informed performance. In London in the 1980s, Norrington's weekend experiences at the Queen Elizabeth Hall would be ways of exploring repertoire deeper, from Purcell's King Arthur to Mozart's The Magic Flute to Berlioz and Wagner (when the soprano booked to sing the Liebestod famously did not turn up!). Throughout these events, Norrington's was an engaging yet informed presence, his enthusiasm encouraging us to explore. This sense of exploration continued as he worked with other ensembles.Now, Sir Roger Norrington has announced his final public concert. On 18 November 2021, he conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia at the Sage Gateshead in Dr Haydn's London Academy, a recreation […]
2021-11-09 08:33:48
Dr Haydn's London Academy: Sir Roger Norrington bid farewell to the podium with a final concert with the Royal Northern Sinfonia
Sir Roger Norrington (Photo Manfred Esser) In the early 1980s I went to a performance in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh where Roger Norrington conducted the London Classical Players in Heinrich Schütz's Musikalische Exequien. It was one of the defining performances of my early concert-going, and helped consolidate my love of historically informed performance. In London in the 1980s, Norrington's weekend experiences at the Queen Elizabeth Hall would be ways of exploring repertoire deeper, from Purcell's King Arthur to Mozart's The Magic Flute to Berlioz and Wagner (when the soprano booked to sing the Liebestod famously did not turn up!). Throughout these events, Norrington's was an engaging yet informed presence, his enthusiasm encouraging us to explore. This sense of exploration continued as he worked with other ensembles.Now, Sir Roger Norrington has announced his final public concert. On 18 November 2021, he conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia at the Sage Gateshead in Dr Haydn's London Academy, a recreation […]
2020-07-26 09:01:08
Live music returns: Opera Holland Park's uplifting evening of operatic arias from an impressive line-up of performers
[…] theatre and with the audience sitting on chairs in the open air. There was reduced audience capacity, social distancing and other measures in place, but for us and for many in the audience, this was our first live music since the beginning of March. An impressive line up of singers gave us 90 minutes of opera arias and duets, with a nod towards last year's Opera Holland Park season (Yvonne Howard sang the powerful 'Esser madre è un inferno' from Francesco Cilea's L'arlesiana), and with some artists giving us samples of roles they were due to be performing this year. Matthew Kofi Waldren conducted nine string players from the City of London Sinfonia, and they were joined by sopranos Lauren Fagan, Kiandra Howarth, Alison Langer, Anna Patalong, Natalya Romaniw, and Nardus Williams, mezzo-soprano Clare Presland, tenors David Butt Philip and Samuel Sakker, baritone Ross Ramgobin and bass Blaise Malaba. […]
2019-07-19 13:00:10
[…] that of the rest of the work. That L’arlesiana is so rarely staged today is a mystery. Not only is the music wonderful but this is as much a family drama as it is a romance. The woman who breaks Federico’s heart never appears on stage and is never named. Instead the female lead is Federico’s mother, Rosa Mamai, a widow and landowner in rural Provence. And the heartbreak described in her own big aria, Esser Madre è un Inferno (translated literally as “To be a mother is hell”), is altogether more complex. Rosa Mamai describes the torment of motherhood, from the pain of childbirth to long, lonely nights in which she didn’t dare to sleep while nursing her sick infant. Perhaps this explains her later behaviour. Her fear of losing Federico makes her obsessively overprotective and overbearing.
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