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A dynamic performance where singers & instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers: Scherzo Ensemble presents a danced version of Haydn's The Creation
A new danced version of Haydn's The Creation is being presented at New Hall Winchester and St John's Smith Square on 6 and 7 April 2024 by Scherzo Ensemble, and we are we are promised a dynamic performance where singers and instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers!Matthew O'Keeffe conducts the Orpheus Sinfonia with soloists Anna Gregg and Sam Harris as Gabriel and Uriel, and Michael Temporal Darell and Caroline Blair as Adam and Eve. The staging is a collaboration with Welsh choreographer Osian Meilir Jones (currently artistic associate of the National Dance Company of Wales), and designer Jennifer GregoryScherzo Ensemble is a professional development platform for emerging singers, best known for managing Longhope Opera in Hampshire where they are performing Donizetti's Don Pasquale on 6 and 7 July 2024, (see the ensemble's website) Further information on Haydn's The Creation from TicketSource (Winchester) and St John's Smith Square's website,
2023-10-21 11:15:00
What's not to love? Glamour and heart as Puccini's little swallow returns to Opera North
[…] constant sense of being at one remove from society.Philip Smith made a fine Rambaldo, and it was a testament to his performance that we felt genuinely sorry for him. It is not a large role, but Smith admirably created a character without putting focus.Around these principals, Opera North had a constellation of singers from the chorus, each having their moments in the spotlight and giving a real feel of repertory company with no weak links. Pasquale Orchard, Kathryn Sharpe and Laura Kelly-McInroy played a significant role in Act ONe as the three young women, Yvette, Bianca and Suzy, in Magda's salon, creating a lively and vividly engaging atmosphere, well supported by Ross McInroy, Satriya Krisna, Paul Gibson and Andrew Randall as their male counterparts.The full chorus only really came into its own in Act Two, here a vibrantly active depiction of Bullier;s with solos from Charlie Drummond, Molly Barker and […]
2023-08-30 06:28:00
[…] Award enables and encourages a critical reflection of current trends and developments in musical theatre offering a platform to young artists in getting international resonance for their ideas of what contemporary musical theatre should be like. Therefore, a director going places, Schwarz has worked in some prestigious houses over the past few years. For instance, he directed Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte at Theater an der Wien, Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera at Staatstheater Darmstadt, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at Opéra National de Montpellier and York Holler’s Der Meister und Margarita at Oper Köln. Without question, directing Wagner, especially the Ring, poses a tremendous artistic challenge for any director but Schwarz took that task head on conjuring up a good and interesting (but bizarre) production. However, I like directors who push boundaries and as with Frank Castorf’s controversial Ring at Bayreuth staged for Wagner’s bicentennial in 2013, Schwarz surely follows in his wake. Change is […]
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2023-08-27 18:31:00
Don Pasquale is a comic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti which premiered in Paris in 1843 and had its Italian premiere later that year in Milan. It is a ‘romantic comedy’ with 19th-century values. The plot, set in Rome, revolves around Don Pasquale, who wants his nephew Ernesto to marry for convenience instead of love. Ernesto, however, is in love with Norina, a young widow. Dr. Malatesta, who is Pasquale’s friend, wants to help the lovers unite and […]
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