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2024-02-12 07:28:00
Something a little bit special: David Butt Philip & friends gala for St Paul's Opera in Clapham
Rainelle Krause, David Butt Philip, Alison Langer, St Paul's Opera chorus - St Paul's Church (Photo: Craig Fuller Photography)David Butt Philip & Friends Gala; Rainelle Krause, Alison Langer, David Butt Philip, David Stout, Jo Ramadan, George Ireland; St Paul's Opera at St Paul's Church, ClaphamDavid Butt Philip as Florestan, David Stout as Posa, Rainelle Krause as the Queen of the Night, Alison Langer as Mozart's Countess in vivid gala evening for St Paul's Opera in ClaphamTenor David Butt Philip has been singing Apollo in Richard Strauss' Daphne at the Staatsoper in Berlin and in March he will be singing Florestan in a production of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Bavarian State Opera. Opera goers in the UK will have to wait until the Summer, however, when he will be singing Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci at Opera Holland Park. But on Friday 9 February 2023, opera lovers in Clapham got a real treat as David […]
2024-02-05 08:18:00
Keeping it local: David Butt Philip, Rainelle Krause, Alison Langer & David Stout in fundraising gala for Clapham-based St Paul's Opera
As St Paul's Opera gears up for its staging of Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus at St Paul's Church, Clapham in July, the company's patron, tenor David Butt Philip will be joined by friends for a fundraising gala at St Paul's Church on Friday 9 February 2024.David Butt Philip will be joined by soprano Rainelle Krause (who performs her signature role, the Queen of the Night, in English National Opera's forthcoming production of Mozart's The Magic Flute), soprano Alison Langer (who will be joining David Butt Philip in Opera Holland Park's production of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci in July) and baritone David Stout (who performs Papageno in ENO's production of The Magic Flute). The four singers will be accompanied by pianists George Ireland and Jo Ramadan.The gala's programme of operatic arias and duets plus songs from musicals features Rainelle Krause in the Queen of the Night's Act Two aria from The Magic Flute, and Violetta's 'Sempre libera' from […]
2022-06-30 07:31:12
Fifth Door Ensemble returns with a double bill of Bartok's Bluebeard and Weill's Seven Deadly Sins
Last year, tenor Charne Rochford's Fifth Door Ensemble made its debut at Opera Holland Park with a performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (with Jennifer Johnston and Charne Rocheford, conducted by Thomas Blunt) in Rainer Riehn's completion of Schoenberg's chamber arrangement. Now Fifth Door are back at Opera Holland Park for a double bill of Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins, again in innovative smaller-scale versions. In the Bartok, Jessica Cottis will conduct Eberhard Kloke’s arrangement for 26 players (this version's UK premiere) with David Stout as the Duke and Gweneth-Ann Rand as Judit. In the Weill, Julia Riley sings Anna with Charne Rochford (Father), Tom Randle (Brother), Grant Doyle (Brother) and Robert Winslade Anderson (Mother) as her family, all conducted by Thomas Blunt using HK Gruber and Christian Muthspiel’s 15 player arrangement.Charne formed Fifth Door last year as a specific response to the pandemic. When the music stopped, it seemed that […]
2022-06-17 11:45:01
Strong meat: Grange Park Opera stages Ponchielli's rarity, La Gioconda in a performance that full embraces the work's drama
Ponchielli: La gioconda - Act One - Grange Park Opera 2022 (Photo Marc Brenner)Ponchielli: La gioconda; Amanda Echalaz, Joseph Calleja, Elisabetta Fiorillo, David Stout, Marco Spotti, director: Stephen Medcalf, the Gascoigne Orchestra, conductor: Stephen Barlow; Grange Park OperaReviewed 16 June 2022, (★★★★)A rare chance to hear Ponchielli's best-known opera in a large-scale and dramatic staging featuring a strong array of voices There were plenty of opera composers in Italy in the 19th century, but few wrote operas that have managed to stay in the repertoire and it is Verdi who dominated then and certainly dominates now. Between Donizetti's Caterina Cornaro (premiered in Naples in 1844) and Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (premiered in Rome in 1890), few new operas by composers other than Verdi have managed to remain in the repertoire. One of these is Ponchielli's La gioconda (premiered 1876, revised 1880), though its hold on the repertoire is fragile. Opera North staged it (with Rosalind Plowright […]
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