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2024-03-02 09:03:00
Shamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change
[…] 16 March, he also has a concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, whilst his Summer is still somewhat up in the air. But in the Autumn he will be returning to; 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands for the International Vocal Competition. He has also been playing the piano a lot, and gave a two-piano recital with a pupil, performing music by Mozart, Schumann and Saint-Saens's Variations on a Theme by Beethoven, plus a paraphrase on Offenbach's Robinson Crusoe. (And they will be giving a piano duet recital too). He comments that there is a lot of good repertoire for two pianos, a lot of it not often performed partly through the logistics of having two pianos.He remains enthusiastic about performing rarer repertoire, he is not giving up on that and adds that he is not giving up at all.Stanford's Shamus O'Brien is released on 8 March 2024 by Retrospect Opera. David Parry […]
2024-02-18 17:00:58
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Jamez McCorkle, Cierra Byrd, Daniel Okulitch, Brianna J. Robinson, and Neal Ferreira in a broadcast of Rhiannon Giddens’s and Michael Abels’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera from Boston last spring
2024-02-14 08:35:00
Lente Verelst and Hull Urban Opera invite you to The End of the World Party
The young Belgian composer Lente Verelst came to attention with her opera, Crocodile, which took ideas from Samuel Beckett and turned them into a short animated film produced by Hull Urban Opera. Originally shown on Sky Arts, the piece is available from Now TV. Now Verelst is back with Hull Urban Opera with her first full length opera, The End of the World Party with a libretto by Russell Plows, artistic director of Hull Urban Opera.Running from 18 to 20 April 2024 at Princes Quay Event Space in Hull, the production is directed by Plows, conducted by Anita Datta and features soprano Madeline Robinson, mezzo Joanna Gamble, countertenor Ralph Thomas Williams, tenor Michael Jones and bass-baritone Neil Balfour. It promises to be an intriguing, interactive piece; playing out in real time, and including local people as performers and storytellers, the opera uses tasks, audience-choice and a “mystery” narrative to explore how we behave under […]
2024-01-03 21:20:00
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los AngelesPhoto by Lisa HirschThe Los Angeles Philharmonic has performances of Wagner's Das Rheingold later this month, and gosh, the cast looks great. (Which of these singers will be in the next San Francisco Opera Ring bring-up? Place your bets now.) There was a point when I would have said "this is in advance of a Paris Opera Ring, but we can't know whether any future Paris Ring productions will be conducted by Dudamel, who is no longer the music director there.)I can't get there, but presumably others can. Scenic design by Frank Gehry should be interesting!DUDAMEL LEADS DAS RHEINGOLDThursday, January 18, at 8:00 PMSaturday, January 20, at 8:00 PMSunday, January 21, at 2:00 PMLos Angeles PhilharmonicGustavo Dudamel, conductorAlberto Arvelo, directorRodrigo Prieto, lighting designerRyan Speedo Green, WotanBarry Banks, MimePeixin Chen, FafnerAlexandria Shiner,WellgundeJohn Matthew Myers,FrohFrank Gehry, scenic designCori Ellison, dramaturgRaehann Bryce-Davis,FrickaJochen Schmeckenbecher,AlberichJessica Faselt, FreiaTaylor Raven, FlosshildeKyle Albertson, DonnerCindy Figueroa, costumedesignerSimon O’Neill, LogeMorris Robinson, FasoltAnn Toomey, WoglindeTamara Mumford, Erda
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