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performer (1970-)
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2023-11-27 09:06:00
A remarkable sense of energy & engagement: Wagner's Die Walküre from the London Opera Company at St John's Smith Square
Wagner's Die Walküre - The London Opera CompanyWagner's Die Walküre; Ben Thapa, Philippa Boyle, Simon Wilding, Simon Thorpe, Harriet Williams, Cara McHardy, conductor Peter Selwyn; the London Opera Company at St John's Smith SquareReviewed 25 November 2023A full scale performance of Wagner's opera projected with remarkable energy, commitment and engagement by a strong cast with an orchestra mixing professionals, students and amateurs. A remarkable achievementThe London Opera Company was formed in 2020 by singers to give opportunities to performers who had lost work in the pandemic. Starting from relatively small beginnings, with chamber versions of Wagner's operas, the company founded its own orchestra last year and presented a full version of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at St John's Smith Square. The company returned to St John's for Wagner's Die Walküre this year and plans to perform Wagner's Siegfried next year.The London Opera Company performed Wagner's Die Walküre at St John's Smith Square on Saturday 25 November 2023. Peter Selwyn conducted […]
2022-11-04 00:00:00
Butterworth, Gurney, Vaughan Williams et al: English Song Cycles (Benjamin Luxon, Roderick Williams et al)
Butterworth & Gurney Songs - When I was one-and-twentyGeorge Butterworth:01 - 06 Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad [13'06]07 - 11 Bredon Hill and other songs [13'31]Ivor Gurney:12 - 31 20 Songs [47'14]Benjamin Luxon- baritone and David Willison- pianoChandos CHAN 8831 [recorded November 1989; issued 1990][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, UKRecording engineer and Producer: Ralph CouzensThose Blue Remembered HillsIvor Gurney:01 - 08 The Western Playland *^ [25'44]Herbert Howells:09 - 12 Four Songs * [10'03]Ivor Gurney:13 Edward, Edward * [4'54]14 - 17 String Quartet in D minor ^ [35'46]18 By a Bierside * [4'15]Roderick Williams- baritone*; Michael Dussek- piano* and The Bridge Quartet ^ [Colin Twigg and Catherine Schofield- violins, Michael Schofield- viola, Lucy Wilding- cello] EM Records EMR CD065 [recorded June 2018; issued 2019][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, UKRecording engineer: Patrick Allen; Producer: […]
2022-09-18 10:25:00
Royal Opera HouseNarraboth – Thomas Atkins Page of Herodias – Annika Schlicht First Soldier – Simon Shibambu Second Soldier – Simon Wilding Jokanaan – Jordan Shanahan Cappadocian – John Cunningham Salome – Elena Stikhina Slave – Sarah Dufresne Herod – John Daszak Herodias – Katarina Dalayman First Jew – Paul Curievici Second Jew – Michael J. Scott Third Jew – Aled Hall Fourth Jew – Alasdair Elliott Fifth Jew – Jeremy White First Nazarene – James Platt Second Nazarene – Chuma Sijeqa Naaman – Duncan MeadowsDavid McVicar (director) Bárbara Lluch (revival director) Es Devlin (designs) Wolfgang Göbbel (lighting) Andrew George (choreography, movement) Emily Piercy (revival choreography) 59 Productions (video) Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseAlexander Soddy (conductor) This was a Salome best remembered for its singing, at least once beyond the absurdity of prefacing it with ‘God save the King’. (The production might have been adapted, I suppose, […]
2022-08-07 14:33:00
Stupendous achievement: Grimeborn's Ring adventure comes to a thrilling and satisfying conclusion at the Hackney Empire
[…] Wagner's Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at the Hackney Empire. The adaptation by Graham Vick and Jonathan Dove was used, with Peter Selwyn conducting the Orpheus Sinfonia. Lee Bisset was Brünnhilde, Paul Carey Jones was the Wanderer, Freddie Tong was Alberich, with Neal Cooper as Siegfried (in Siegfried) and Mark Le Brocq as Siegfried (in Götterdämmerung), plus Lucy Anderson (Gutrune), Mae Heydorn (Erda, Flosshilde), Lizzie Holmes (Woglinde), Elizabeth Karani (Woodbird), Bethan Mary Langford (Wellgunde), Angharad Lyddon (Waltraute), Simon Thorpe (Gunther), and Simon Wilding (Fafner, Hagen). Designs were by Bettina John, and lighting by Robert Price.The two operas were performed as a double-bill (as Vick and Dove originally intended with City of Birmingham Opera); Siegfried in a single span of two hours, with Götterdämmerung in the evening with an interval. We thus had over four hours of music, and the young players of the Orpheus Sinfonia (just 18 of them) performing a truly heroic service. Dove's orchestration is highly imaginative and […]
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