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2023-03-03 23:40:47
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2022-11-19 14:32:00
Linbury Studio TheatreLucretia – Anne Marie StanleyFemale Chorus – Sydney Baedke Male Chorus – Michael Gibson Tarquinius – Jolyon Loy Collatinus – Anthony Reed Junius – Kieran Rayner Bianca – Carolyn Holy Lucia – Sarah Dufresne Oliver Mears (director) Annemarie Woods (designs) DM Wood (lighting) Sarita Piotrowski (movement) Aurora Orchestra Corinna Niemeyer (conductor) This new Rape of Lucretia, seen first at Snape, now in the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio Theatre, fittingly features singers from two young artists’ programmes: Britten Pears and Jette Parker. In many ways, its greatest strength is theirs—and that of the young Aurora Orchestra players too. (We tend to speak of a chamber orchestra here; were this ‘newer’ music, we should doubtless call it an ensemble.) Conducted by Corinna Niemeyer, this was an immediate, urgent performance which, like Oliver Mears’s immediate, urgent staging, was experienced to excellent, arguably heightened effect in a small theatre. For all […]
2022-07-23 07:45:00
From Bayreuth to Grimeborn: having assisted at Bayreuth Festival's new Ring Cycle, Peter Selwyn moves on to conduct the concluding parts of the Grimeborn Festival's ambitious Ring Cycle
[…] they would need a partner or a sponsor. Wagner: Siegfried and Götterdämmerung - Grimeborn Festival at the Hackney Empire - director Julia Burbach, conductor Peter Selwyn, Neal Cooper and Mark Le Brocq (Siegfried), Lee Bissett (Brünnhilde), Paul Carey Jones (Wanderer), Colin Judson (Mime), Simon Thorpe (Gunther), Lucy Anderson (Gutrune), Freddie Tong (Alberich), Elizabeth Karani (Woodbird) - 6 & 7 August 2022 [ticket link]Liszt: Les Preludes, Mahler: Blumine and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Strauss: Tod und Verklarung - Kieran Rayner, Lambeth Orchestra, Peter Selwyn - All Saints' Church, West Dulwich - 22 October 2022 [ticket link]Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - conductor Peter Selwyn - London Opera Company at St John's Smith Square - 29 October 2022 [ticket link]Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogOperatic rarities in a striking double bill: Delius' Margot la Rouge and Puccini's Le […]
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