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Australian operatic singer (1844-1932)
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- opera singer
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2024-02-23 08:50:00
Vivid intensity and profound expressivity: Vox Luminis explores the world of the 17th century Italian Stabat Mater at Wigmore Hall
[…] at once and the programme moved between a single voice right through to the ten voices, always one per part.We began with the anonymous lai, sung from the balcony by one of the sopranos. Unaccompanied and intensely personal, this was a very affecting performance with beautifully plangent tone and a striking use of silence. This was followed by Lotti's well-known eight-part Crucifixus. This, in fact, comes from a larger-scale work, a complete Credo and Ben Palmer's 2016 recording with the Syred Consort and Orchestra of St Paul's on Delphian demonstrated that there is much to be said for considering Lotti's complete work [see my review], but the Crucifixus remains a striking and very forward-looking fragment, here sung with great intensity by the vocal ensemble, each voice individually expressive and on the edge.. What is distinctive about the Vox Luminis sound is how they focus on individual intensity rather than blend, a collective […]
2024-02-06 07:30:00
Upload May 28,2022 “Death in Venice was to be Britten’s last full-length opera, first pe
2024-01-30 07:50:00
Back with vengeance: Nina Stemme in Richard Strauss' Elektra at Covent Garden
[…] roles as their voices change, from Chrysothemis to Elektra and finally to Klytämnestra. This latter is, however, a mezzo-soprano role (the first Klytämnestra was a dramatic contralto), but quite often taken by older sopranos like Karita Mattila who has made the move into what Rosalind Plowright calls the 'hags, bags, witches and bitches' repertoire with great dramatic aplomb. Perhaps the lower register rather lacked the resonance that a mezzo-soprano would have brought to it (Felicity Palmer was notable in this role, we saw her in the 2014 BBC Prom with Christina Goerke, see my review). But Mattila made up for it with a thrilling dramatic focus, giving us a sense of over-the-top divadom in the role. Mattila's Klytämnestra had a striking look of Ivana Trump in later life, and her vivid behaviour seemed to tie in with that sort of media personality. Perhaps this Klytämnestra was not the most intensely […]
2024-01-11 09:41:00
Thaxted Festival celebrates the 150th birthday of its founder, Gustav Holst
Thaxted Parish ChurchThe Thaxted Festival, based at the historic Thaxted Parish Church, has its origins in composer Gustav Holst's 1916 Whitsun Festival, so the 2024 Thaxted Festival will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of Holst's birth. Running from 21 June to 14 July 2024, the festival opens with Jonathan Bloxham conducting the London Mozart Players in Holst's A Fugal Concerto, with pianist Iyad Sughayer, and the world premiere of Noah Max's Symphony No. 1. There will also be a screening of Tony Palmer's 2011 film, In the Bleak Midwinter about Holst's life.Echo Ensemble, directed by Noah Max, present COSMOS: A Celebration of The Planets, featuring words and music around Holst and his most well-known work, and the Armonico Consort perform Purcell's The Fairy Queen, a work given its first modern revival at the Old Vic in 1911 directed by Holst. The English Chamber Orchestra and choir of Kings College London will be performing […]
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