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2021-08-14 08:16:00
Jakub Józef Orliński sings arias by George Frideric Handel and Henry Purcell, and mélodies by Tadeusz Baird and Paweł Łukaszewski, with Michał Biel (HD 1080p)
[…] is also featured on Warner recordings of Agrippina opposite Joyce di Donato and on a disc of selections with L'Arpeggiata with Christina Pluhar. Jakub Józef Orliński graduated from the Juilliard School in 2017 and immediately began his international career as Orimeno in Cavalli's Erismena in his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. He followed this with his role debut in the title role of Handel's Rinaldo at Oper Frankfurt in a stunning production by Ted Huffman. While still at Juilliard, he debuted with the Händel-Festspiele in Karlsruhe with music of Handel and Vivaldi; at Carnegie Hall in New York; as well as with the Houston Symphony. He also collaborated with Les Arts Florissants in Vivaldi's Stabat Mater conducted by Paul Agnew; performed with Music of the Baroque in Chicago under Jane Glover; and on tour with the English Concert under Harry Bicket as Eustazio in Rinaldo with performances in London, […]
2021-07-03 08:34:02
Exploring big themes: composer Luke Styles chats about his posthumous collaboration with Benjamin Britten in the new opera Awakening Shadow
[…] rhythmically clear and clarity is important to Luke in his music. Luke Styles's Ned Kelly at the Perth Festival 2019 (Photo Toni Wilkinson) Two of his major operas, Ned Kelly (which premiered in 2019 at the Perth Festival in Australia, commissioned by Lost and Found Opera, directed by Janice Muller, conducted by Chris van Tuinen, see the review in The Guardian) and Macbeth (which premiered at Glyndebourne in 2015, directed by Ted Huffman, who also wrote the libretto, and conducted by Jeremy Bines, see the review in The Guardian), are narrative works and people know the stories already (that of Ned Kelly particularly in Australia), so that familiarity is the key. And his word setting is lyrical to make them understandable. Both have moments that use tonality, not necessarily in a functional way but to help anchor people and give them aural relief. But Luke finds that […]
2020-07-05 11:31:53
A Life On-Line: Dreaming of the Silver Screen in Montpellier, Weber's Euryanthe in Vienna, Tippett's The Ice Break in Birmingham,
Weber: Euryanthe - Theresa Kronthaler (Eglantine), Andrew Foster-Williams (Lysiart)Theater an der Wien (Photo © Monika Rittershaus) Opera this week included two rather different rarely performed operas, Weber's grand romantic opera Euryanthe from Vienna, and Tippett's final opera The Ice Break from Birmingham. And we also caught up with Ted Huffman's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream which debuted in Montpellier last year. First off we caught up with Christof Loy's production of Weber's Euryanthe which was originally given at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, with Jacquelyn Wagner, Norman Rehinhardt, Theresa Kornthaler, Andrew Foster-Williams and Stefan Cerny, and Constantin Trinks conducting the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Weber's opera is notoriously regarded as unstageable thanks to what is seen as a clunky libretto. I have only seen the opera on stage twice, in Richard Jones' striking production at Glyndebourne, and at the Semper Oper in […]
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