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2021-02-05 09:59:00
"DALIA" - our new People's Opera for Garsington
[…] advisers, who include the aforementioned Amwaj Choir, our community liaison head Manas Ghanem (who is originally from Syria), the charity Refugees at Home, the BBC commentator Eleanor Oldroyd, the South African former professional cricketer Mo Sattar, and the former refugee, now bestselling author and motivational speaker, Gulwali Passerlay, whose book The Lightless Sky has been a major inspiration. The production reunites us with our fabulous director Karen Gillingham, conductor Dougie Boyd, 'magic singing woman' Suzi Zumpe, our dear friends at Garsington and hopefully even some of the same young people as Silver Birch, plus several years' worth of new Youth Company recruits. One more credit: my late mother-in-law, Gisela Eisner. Her history inspired Dalia's. She was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany at the same age as our Dalia. She was put onto the Kindertransport to London aged 12, said goodbye to her parents and brother at the station in Berlin […]
2021-02-05 08:38:32
[…] is a co-commission with Opera North. Garsington's production will feature 90 members of the Youth Company aged 7-25, performing alongside young professional singers. An excerpt of the music, Our Haven (see video above on YouTube), was recorded and performed by the Youth Company during the first lockdown in the summer of 2020. To produce the film, 93 young people worked with filmmaker Claudia Lee, director Karen Gillingham and vocal directors Suzi Zumpe & Lea Cornthwaite. They learnt songs from the piece and filmed themselves on their own devices and talked to camera about their ‘Haven’ during lockdown. Roxanna Panufnik's Dalia centres on young girl of 12 who arrives in Britain as a refugee from Syria having lost her family in traumatic circumstances. The opera has been commissioned by Garsington Opera to engage local participants of of all ages from diverse backgrounds in community performance. […]
2019-06-25 07:37:29
Garsington's Youth Opera Company to premiere Paul Fincham's debut opera The Happy Princess at Wormsley in August
[…] action to the present and transforms the prince into a princess. It will be premiered on 2 August 2019 on Garsington Opera's main stage at Wormsley when the Youth Opera Company will be joined by soprano soprano Lara Marie Müller who won the Garsington Opera 2017 Simon Sandbach Award, and a professional chamber ensemble. It will be conducted by Jonathon Swinard, Head of Music at Garsington Opera, with Karen Gillingham (director), Suzi Zumpe (vocal director) and Ruth Paton (designer). The libretto for the opera is by Jessica Duchen, librettist of Silver Birch.Fincham studied music at Cambridge where he was musical director of the Cambridge Footlights (where a fellow student was Emma Thompson). But he did not fancy a career as an impoverished musician so did a conversion and moved into corporate law and finance. After a 30 year career he took the plunge and became a full […]
2018-11-13 07:56:37
Otherwordly concerns: Marlis Petersen's Anderswelt
[…] standard repertoire. I understand that this is very much a personal project for Petersen, and the selection of songs has a quirkiness and a depth which makes it stand out. So whilst there is Brahms, Wolf, Zemlinsky, Reger, Schreker, Nielsen and Grieg here, there is also Hans Pfitzner, Hans Sommer, Hermann Reutter, Carl Loewe, Christian Sinding, Harald Genzmer, Bruno Walter, Nikolai Medtner, Julius Weismann, Wilhelm Stenhammer, Yrjo Henrik Kilpinen, Sigvaldi Kaldalons, Friedrich Gulda, and Herman Zumpe. Another interesting thing about the selection of composers is that a number of the lesser known ones are from the 20th century, representatives of a late-Romantic strand in 20th century music which is often over-looked as we concentrate on the major Expressionist and Modernist movements.We start with Hans Pfitzner's rather romantic Lockung as a sort of prelude. Then we move into the first sections Nixen und Nock (Nixies and Water Nymphs) with songs by […]
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