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2024-04-17 22:29:43
Boulder Opera’s “Operatizers,” Boulder and Longmont symphonies’ Beethoven 3 and 9 By Peter Alexander April 17 at 4:30 p.m. The Boulder Symphony will present Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3—known as the “Eroica”—along with Grieg’s Piano Concerto and the “Lullaby” for string orchestra by George Gershwin Friday evening (7:30 p.m. April 19; details below). Devin Patrick Hughes […]
2024-04-04 06:47:00
States of Innocence: Ed Hughes' new opera after Paradise Lost premieres at the Brighton Festival with Sir John Tomlinson
Milton Dictating to His Daughter, Henry Fuseli (1794)The year 2024 marks the 350th anniversary of Milton’s death however it is a brave dramatist who takes on the epic poem Paradise Lost, completed in 1667 by John Milton (1608-1674). But that is what composer Ed Hughes and writer Peter Cant have done. Their new opera, States of Innocence, an opera after Paradise Lost, premieres at the Brighton Festival on 19 May 2024. The work has been specially conceived and developed for the Brighton Festival 2024.For States of Innocence, librettist Peter Cant drew on Milton's poem, and The Woman’s Bible (1895) by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which radically challenged the orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man. In the opera we encounter poet and republican John Milton as a character on stage, dreaming of Angels and the Tree of Knowledge; and, now blind, and living in fear of reprisals from the restored Stuart monarchy, dictating his […]
2024-03-15 13:57:17
SCO/Kuusisto review – Grime and Clyne premieres plus Dolphin Boy and folk fiddle make for an inspiring evening
Queen’s Hall, EdinburghPekka Kuusisto’s residency with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra ended with an eclectic and joyful concert that included new works by Anna Clyne and Helen Grime and an interval DJ setA month-long residency with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra by dynamic Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto is ending in a programme featuring two UK premieres – a violin concerto written for him by Anna Clyne and a song cycle composed by Helen Grime for the other featured soloist, soprano Ruby Hughes. Add in fiddler Aidan O’Rourke duetting with Kuusisto on some of the folk tunes used by Clyne in her five-movement work, Time and Tides, and an interval set on the decks by Andy Levy, AKA DJ Dolphin Boy, and it looked like a long and rather eclectic evening. Instead it flowed with an easy sense of purpose.Grime sets three poems about happiness, Larkin’s joy in springtime,
2024-02-24 09:51:00
The Lady of Satis House: composer Jacques Cohen talks about finally bringing his 2012 Charles Dickens-inspired monodrama to disc
[…] sense to write it quickly, to keep the dramatic conviction. Jacques adds that composers often either aim for perfection or conviction, with The Lady of Satis House, Jacques was definitely the latter and he points out that even a composer like George Benjamin, who famously takes great pains with his scores, writes his operas at a far faster pace.Jacques Cohen: The Lady of Satis House - recording session with Marie Vassiliou, Tippett Quartet (Photo: Richard Hughes)But why set Miss Havisham to music at all, does she need it? As far as Jacques is concerned, Great Expectations is a great book, whilst Miss Havisham is a dramatic character. But she is also insane, it makes a sort of sense that she sings. Just think about the logistics and hygiene of her shutting herself away for all those years, still wearing her wedding dress. It is not plausible in reality, and in […]
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