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2024-04-05 08:55:00
West Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season
[…] setting make the challenges worth facing and it is this lake-side setting that makes West Green House Opera unique. The garden setting also turns going to the opera into a lovely afternoon. The garden is small enough to feel that your are enjoying opera within a National Trust property rather than a theatre set in the countryside.This year's festival opens with a gala concert featuring John Andrews conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra with soloists Soraya Mafi and Nicky Spence. The first opera production is Verdi's Falstaff, directed and designed by Richard Studer and conducted by Jonathan Lyness. Studer and Lyness have a long association with the festival dating right back to its early days. The production features Simon Thorp in the title role with John-Kristof Bouton, Galina Averina, Carolyn Dobbin, Trystan Llyr Griffiths and Lorena Paz Nieto.An intriguing concert offering is the collaboration between wine-expert Oz Clarke and the Armonico Consort, for an evening […]
2022-08-02 07:30:00
Handel’s Alcina - a ‘first’ for Glyndebourne - joins other great Handel gems in the company’s repertoire such as Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo and Theodora
Handel: Alcina - Samantha Hankey, Beth Taylor, Soraya Mafi, Jane Archibald - Glyndebourne Opera (Photo Tristram Kenton)Handel: Alcina; Jane Archibald, Samantha Hankey, Soraya Mafi, Beth Taylor, Rowan Pierce, director: Francesco Micheli, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor: Jonathan Cohen; Glyndebourne OperaReviewed 24 July 2022 (★★★★★) Italian-born director, Francesco Micheli, brings style and sumptuous excess to Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s wonderful and lush staging of Handel’s Alcina Our correspondent, Tony Cooper, provides a second view of Glyndebourne's production of Handel's Alcina directed by Francesco Micheli with Jane Archibald in the title role. Tony saw a cast that included Samantha Hankey as Ruggiero, see Robert's review of the production with Svetlina Stoyanova as Ruggiero.Handel loosely based the libretto for Alcina on Riccardo Broschi’s opera, L’isola d’Alcina, set to a libretto by Antonio Fanzaglia. The original source of the story, however, comes from Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem, Orlando furioso, the source, too, for such other Handel delights as Orlando and […]
2022-07-29 07:38:00
Welcome to L'isola di Alcina: Glyndebourne's first production of Handel's opera
Handel: Alcina - Jane Archibald - Glyndebourne Opera (Photo Tristram Kenton)Handel: Alcina; Jane Archibald, Svetlina Stoyanova, Soraya Mafi, Beth Taylor, Rowan Pierce, Thomas Elwin, dir: Francesco Micheli, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, cond; Jonathan Cohen; Glyndebourne Opera27 July 2022 (★★★★½)The magic of Alcina recreated as a 1950s showgirl in a lavish production that combined spectacle with performances at the highest levelWhen Handel wrote Alcina, he had parted company from most of the stars of his opera company and had been forced to seek a new theatre. But, ever the practical man of the theatre, he made the best of the circumstances. The Covent Garden Theatre, where Handel gave his next few seasons, was known for its spectacular productions, there was also a small chorus available and for the first season, a dance troupe led by Marie Sallé. Handel would create the ballet, Terpsicore, for Sallé and would include dance into both Ariodante […]
2022-07-22 06:51:00
Glenarm Festival of Voice
[…] Piano Intern for 2022 is Doireann O’Carroll.The team who will coach the finalists includes Kathryn Harries, Dr Ingrid Surgenor and pianist Simon Lepper. They will work with the finalists on their competition repertoire across the weekend in the build-up to the finale on Sunday 28 August in Glenarm’s Church of the Immaculate Conception. The festival includes three recitals with NI Opera’s festival partners, BBC Radio 3, with tenor Alessandro Fisher, baritone Seán Boylan and soprano Soraya Mafi; tickets for these recitals are free but must be booked in advance from the company's website. The 2021 winner of the Festival’s Deborah Voigt Opera Prize, soprano Ellen Mawhinney, will be giving a recital at the historic Londonderry Arms in Carnlough.Full details from the company's website.
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