Noelle Barker News
Soprano singer and singing teacher
- United Kingdom
- singer, opera singer
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2024-03-29
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-02 18:32:40
Tanglewood 2024 Looks Good
[…] Jurassic Park with John Williams’s score, live! As if in contrast, the entire Act III of Wagner’s Die Götterdämmerung, with Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde, will be heard on July 20. I hope that next year they will do Act I, which is Wagner at the absolute peak of his powers. A “Koussevitzky 150th Celebration” is featured on July 26, to include Scriabin’s Prometheus and Koussevitzky’s own Concerto for Double Bass, with the BSO’s own Edwin Barker playing the solo. (Stravinsky’s Memories and Commentaries, 1960, mention how Koussevitzky came on stage with his double bass to play a recital piece, and the publisher Byelayev “turned to me and said, ‘Until now, such things have been seen only in circuses.’” Koussevitzky was of course well known as a virtuoso bass player, but he was also a rival publisher, doubtless to Byelayev’s annoyance.) The TMC Festival of Contemporary Music, what some of us […]
2023-10-21 11:15:00
What's not to love? Glamour and heart as Puccini's little swallow returns to Opera North
[…] 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 Amy Freston. The chorus was in good form and whilst there were six dancers, everyone was on the moved. There was also small solos from Gillene Butterfield and James Davies.Conductor Kerem Hasan and the orchestra did the work proud, Hasan's way with the score meant we got a whole sequence of beautifully long-breathed, flexible melodies.No-one dies and there is no intense tragedy. Adami's libretto might be close to the lightness of operetta, but […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-06-13 15:14:08
Death of a Radio 3 favourite
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