Philip Skinner News
American opera singer
- bass-baritone
- United States of America
- opera singer, musician
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2024-03-29
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2024-03-11 14:53:03
Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner delivered shape-shifting music at the Hammersmith Apollo
2024-01-15 21:53:00
West Edge Opera Festival Schedule Change
[…] a young prodigy under her wing. Colorful and at times fractured, the form of the work echoes du Pré’s iconic interpretation of the Elgar, using the concerto’s four-movement structure to navigate a prismatic and passionate, if all too short, life in music.I've liked everything of Woolf's that I have heard, so I expect that this will be good. Also in the press release is the cast for Legend of the Ring, which looks very good:Tracy Cox (Brunnhilde), Philip Skinner (Wotan), Alex Boyer (Sigmund/Siegfried), Mary Evelyn Hangley (Freia/Sieglinde), Stephanie Sanchez (Fricka), Kyle Bielfield (Loge/Mime), Peter Morgan (Alberich/Fasolt), Matt Lovell (Fafner/Hundig). Conducted by Jonathan Khuner, Directed by Sam Helfrich.
2023-11-17 10:15:00
Released today, the first of two specially-commissioned performance films from the Scottish Ensemble with Glasgow production company Forest of Black. The film features the Scottish Ensemble performing Anna Meredith's Tull. The film is on the Scottish Ensemble's YouTube channel, and can also be streamed.Tull was premiered by Scottish Ensemble in 2014. The three-minute piece is scored for 12 divided strings and presents a variation on the traditional Scots’ tune Tullochgorum. Meredith’s realisation is "fuzzy but energetic". Tullochgorum (also known as The Reel of Tullochgorum) is the title of a song, which carries the line 'For blithe and cheery we'll be a'. The words to the song were written by the Scottish poet, songwriter, minister and historian, the Rev. John Skinner in 1776 to the tune Tullochgorum, which is said to have been derived from an older Scottish song tune, printed in Craig's Collection in 1730 (information courtesy of the Scottish Country Dancing […]
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