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2023-06-17 15:35:00
Hänsel und Gretel, Opera Holland Park, 14 June 2023
Hänsel – Charlotte Badhma Gretel – Laura Lolita Perešivana Peter – Paul Carey Jones Gertrud – Meeta Raval Witch – Eleanor Dennis Sandman – April Koyejo-Audiger Dew Fairy – Charlotte BowdenJohn Wilkie (director) Neil Irish (designs)Robert Price (lighting)Michael Spenceley (movement)Opera Holland Park Chorus (chorus master: Dominic Ellis-Peckham) Children’s Chorus from the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School (chorus master: Scott Price) City of London SinfoniaKărin Hendrickson (conductor)Hänsel (Charlotte Badhma), The Witch (Eleanor Dennis), Gretel (Laura Lolita Perešivana), Images: Ali Smith It is always a joy to return to Holland Park: to Opera Holland Park, that is, the park itself being available all year around. Sometimes, the sense of it heralding summer can seem wildly optimistic; doubtless it did for those initially sampling the year’s first production, Rigoletto. Now that spring has finally not come, winter having suddenly jumped into summer, the season’s second, Hänsel und Gretel, was able to bask in that long anticipated magic of sunshine and […]
2022-06-02 09:38:36
[…] player Jasdeep Singh Degun on the music for story of the Indian doctors in the NHS. But the opera is not just a selection of engaging narratives. The desire to broaden our horizons is a natural one, but for many, it is a necessity to improve on circumstances, and the stories explore how the result of such migrations often have unintended consequences. Migrations is an ambitious, large-scale piece involving over 100 performers including Tom Randle, Meeta Raval, David Shipley and Peter Brathwaite amongst other artists, along with the Bristol-based Renewal Choir Community Chorus, a Bollywood Ensemble and a children’s chorus including members of WNO’s Youth Opera, joining the forces of Welsh National Opera’s Orchestra and Chorus. The opera is also part of a five-year partnership with the Welsh Refugee Council working with groups in the community through composition, music and performance projects. After its performances in Cardiff in June and July 2022, […]
2021-08-30 12:43:40
[…] set would have carried the drama better. Kamil Bien’s Satyavan was fresh and chirpy, making a good foil for Julian Close’s commanding Death, delivered with echoes of the Wagnerian spirit the opera frequently falls back on. Lewis Gaston encouraged a committed display from Skipton Camerata, but even the small forces required for Savitri overwhelmed the singers during the meatier musical passages, a persistent issue throughout the evening. Those problems of balance didn’t deter soprano Meeta Raval though, whose Savitri was polished and emotive.
2021-05-25 07:09:24
Exploring the operas of Gustav Holst at the Leeds Opera Festival
Like the operas of his friend and colleague, Ralph Vaughan Williams, the operas of Gustav Holst remain on the fringes of the repertoire at best. Whilst Holst's one-act opera Savitri might occasionally pop up (partly due to its sheer practicality), his other operas remain real rarities. I have seen Savtri (memorably with Janet Baker and John Shirley Quirk at Scottish Opera), however his other works including At The Boar's Head, The Perfect Fool and The Wandering Scholar, have so far eluded me. However, that is about to change because the 2021 Leeds Opera Festival, presented by the Northern Opera Group, is bringing Holst's operas to the fore. Running from 23 to 30 August 2021, the festival is presenting a double bill of Holst's Savitri and At the Boar's Head, the first based on a tale from a Sanskrit epic the second based on Shakespeare. Savitri will feature Meeta Raval in the […]
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