Richard Hageman News
Dutch conductor (1881-1966)
- piano
- United States of America
- conductor, pianist, film score composer, film actor
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La voix humaine: two different productions bring Poulenc's intimate drama to London
[…] found that the sacrifice of Poulenc's orchestral colours is sometimes worth the gain in sheer immediacy and intimacy.Remarkably, there are two different productions of Poulenc's La voix humaine coming up. In March, Green Opera is performing the work at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, the first time opera has been performed in the venue for ten years. In April, Pegasus Opera Company is presenting Poulenc's La voix humaine in a double bill with Philip Hagemann's Roman Fever at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music.Green Opera's critically-acclaimed production of Francis Poulenc's La Voix humaine returns for a strictly limited run, 14-16 March 2024 at the newly reconstructed purpose-built King's Head Theatre. New Zealand soprano Katherine McIndoe with Eleanor Burke as director and André Callegaro as music director, these latter two both Jette Parker Young Artists at the Royal Opera House.Green Opera is the first and only […]
2021-09-25 08:38:06
Lucas & Irina Meachem's new disc celebrates American art songs & helps promotes representation & diversity in the arts through their new foundation
Irina and Lucas Meachem (Photo Nate Ryan) The American baritone Lucas Meachem's schedule for 2021 has rather reflected the changes that the pandemic has brought to the arts. His opera appearances have included appearing as Figaro (something of a signature role) in Rossini's Il barbiere di Sivigla in a drive-in performance from San Francisco Opera, and a relatively last-minute stand-in for the title role of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at Santa Fe Opera as the planned baritone fell foul of travel restrictions. Lucas has also been busy in the studio too, releasing his first recital disc. A collection of American art songs on the theme of resilience and togetherness, Shall We Gather on the Rubicon label is billed as 'A Collection of American Art Songs Celebrating Resilience and Togetherness' and it is very much a passion project for Lucas and his wife pianist Irina Meachem, who accompanies him on the […]
2021-08-24 09:08:16
Passion, Poison, Petrifaction and a Prodigal Son: Pegasus Opera Company's new double bill
Pegasus Opera Company is returning to the stage with another double bill of works featuring composer Philip Hageman. The company performs a new double bill at the Royal Academy of Music's Susie Sainsbury Theatre from 10 to 12 September 2021. Hageman's chamber adaptation of Debussy's L'enfant prodigue will be performed alongside Hageman's comic melodrama Passion, Poison and Petrifaction which is adapted from a play by George Bernard Shaw. The cast for the performances features the company's artistic director, soprano Alison Buchanan, alongside Roberto Abate, Themba Mvulawho, Bernadine Pritchet, George Reynolds, Sandeep Gurrapadi, Chuma Sijeqa and Donna Batemann. Both operas are directed by Harry Fehr. Pegasus Opera Company is a professional opera company based in Brixton, London with a family of widespread international artists, participants and supporters. They produce high-quality performances and balance this with a focus on artist development of emerging artists of African and Asian heritage and bringing their work onto eminent […]
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2021-01-20 11:05:27
German owners refuse to pay for Holocaust-theft Guarnerius
Germany’s ‘advisory commission on Nazi-looted property’, known as the Limbach Commission, has issued a sharp reminder to a Nuremburg foundation to pay up over a Guarnerius violin in its possession. Five years ago the commission ordered the Franz Hofmann and Sophie Hagemann Foundation to pay 100,000 Euros to the heirs of Felix Hildesheimer, whose violin […]
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