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2021-12-01 12:45:00
Britten TheatreSarastro – Jamie Woollard Tamino – Ted Black Speaker – Dafydd Allen Teachers – Henry Wright, Sam Harris Queen of the Night – Heming Li Pamina – Hyoyoung Kim Three Ladies – Lylis O’Hara, Annabel Kennedy, Emma Roberts Three Junior Girls – Leah Redmond, Denira Coleman, Taryn Surratt Papagena – Sofia Kirwan-Baez Papageno – Theo Perry Monostatos – Harry Grigg Two Boys – Daniel Bray Bell, Redmond Sanders Chorus – Madeline Boreham, Angelina Dorlin-Barlow, Matthew Curtis, Sam HindPolly Graham (director)Louise Bakker (associate director)Rosie Elnile, Hazel Low (designs)Tim Mitchell (lighting)Kate Flatt (movement) Royal College of Music Opera Orchestra Michael Rosewell (conductor) A week that brought excellent student shows from two London conservatoires, both the Royal Academy of Music (L’Heure espagnole and Gianni Schicchi) and the Royal College (Die Zauberflöte) offered encouraging news for our often hesitant operatic recovery. In many ways, this Magic Flute came close to ideal: […]
2021-01-12 07:47:03
The Only Stage international Conducting Competition launches with an entirely on-line competition
[…] from 8 January 2021 to 31 March 2021, and the results will be announced in May. Judging will be done based on the candidates CV and submitted videos (both of performances and, for the final round, a presentation). The jury includes Andrea Amarante - Artistic Director or Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, conductors John Axelrod and Oleg Caetani, Zvonimir Hacko - Artistic Director of Oregon Music Festival, Ruben Jais - Artistic Director of LaVerdi Symphonic Orchestra, Milan, Michael Rosewell - Director of Opera at the Royal College of Music, György Lendvai, Managing Director of MÁV Symphony Orchestra Budapest, Piero Romano - Artistic Director of the Magna Grecia Orchestra. Full details from the competition website.
2018-12-03 21:15:00
Britten Theatre Count Almaviva – Thomas Isherwood Countess Almaviva – Eleanor Dennis Susanna – Catriona Hewitson Figaro – Theodore Platt Cherubino – Anna Cooper Marcellina – Holly-Marie Bingham Dr Bartolo – Timothy Edlin Don Basilio – Glen Cunningham Don Curzio – Samuel Jenkins Barbarina – Milly Forrest Antonio – Peter Edge Two Bridesmaids – Camilla Harris, Jessica Cale Sir Thomas Allen (director) Lottie Higlett (designs) Rory Beaton (lighting) Kate Flatt (choreography) Royal College of Music Opera Chorus (chorus master: Leanne Singh-Levett) Royal College of Music Opera Orchestra Michael Rosewell (conductor) A lively, enthusiastic young cast, as skilled at acting as at singing, proved the definite highlight of the Royal College of Music’s end-of-term Marriage of Figaro. There was no weak link, each of the singers offering something particular in roles many of us perhaps know all too well. At this stage in their careers, singers will […]
2018-07-02 07:53:36
Powerful & emotional stuff: Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse at RCM Double Bill.
Huw Watkins, Peter Maxwell Davies; Royal College International Opera School, dir: Stephen Unwin, cond: Michael Rosewell; Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music Reviewed by Anthony Evans on 29 June 2018 Star rating: 2.5/3.5 (★★½)/(★★★½)A contemporary double bill higlighting the destructive power of our mindsThis Friday, 29 June 2018, at the Royal College Music's Britten Theatre, The Royal College International Opera School performed a double bill of work highlighting the destructive power of our minds the first of which was In the Locked Room by Huw Watkins and the second was Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse, both in productions by Stephen Unwin, conducted by Michael Rosewell. In the Locked Room is Huw Watkin’s and David Harsent’s take on Thomas Hardy’s short story An Imaginative Woman. Ella, a poetry lover, becomes fascinated by the work of the poet Ben Pascoe. Although they never meet, Ella’s frenzied imaginings, whilst […]
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