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2021-08-04 09:23:22
Pirates Ahoy! Charles Court Opera & Opera Holland Park join forces for vivaciously energetic G&S
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance - Frederick Long, Richard Burkhard, John Savournin- Opera Holland Park, Charles Court Opera (Photo Ali Wright) Gilbert & Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance; Daisy Brown, Peter Kirk, Richard Burkard, John Savournin, Yvonne Howard, Trevor Eliot Bowes, cond: David Eaton, City of London Sinfonia; Opera Holland Park, Charles Court Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 3 August 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) This co-production brings an engaging energy to the G&S classic.Opera Holland Park's final new production of the season opened last night (3 August 2021), a co-production with Charles Court Opera, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance was directed by John Savournin, artistic director of Charles Court Opera, who also sang the Pirate King and conducted by David Eaton, music director of Charles Court Opera, with the City of London Sinfonia and Opera Holland Park Chorus, Daisy Brown as […]
2021-06-05 09:59:47
Trying to make people unreasonable: I chat to composer Tim Benjamin about his opera The Fire of Olympus; or, On Sticking It To The Man
Tim Benjamin: The Fire of Olympus - Sophie Dicks as Prometheus Composer Tim Benjamin's latest opera The Fire of Olympus; or, On Sticking It To The Man debuted in 2019 when Radius Opera, the company of which Tim is co-founder and artistic director, toured the work in a production which combined live singers and the digitally combined voices of over 1000 volunteers, taken from workshops held with choirs in and around the towns where the opera was performed. Tim has now collaborated with East View Film to create a film version of the opera, intended to be a film in its own right rather than a film record of a stage production, and this has now been released on Marquee TV. I caught up with Tim recently to find out more about The Fire of Olympus and how he came to turn an opera into a film. […]
2018-02-06 15:17:10
British period instrument pioneer, cellist Caroline Brown has passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer – aged 64. A graduate of London’s Royal College of Music and the Vienna Hochschule für Musik, where she studied with Anna Shuttleworth, Joan Dicks and Andre Navarra, Caroline was a founding member of the London-based Hanover Band period instrument […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2016-11-22 18:03:43
London opera company gives up on singing
Euphonia Studio is about to use its opera cast in three stage plays. Interesting idea. Cheaper, too. Press release: Opera Company Goes Straight! Challenging the commonly-held assumption that opera singers can’t act, Euphonia Studio attempts to prove to the contrary in a highly entertaining triple-bill of short plays by Anton Chekhov. Updated to a modern-day, north-of-England setting, The Proposal, On the Evils of Tobacco and The Bear feature a cast of young opera singers – Edward Jowle, Sophie Dicks and Hannah Jane Peel – using their voices in a completely different way to usual…without singing a note! Adapted and directed by Euphonia Studio Artistic Director Alisdair Kitchen, the production is playing in London from December 6th-10th at The Drayton Arms Theatre, and travels to Rye, East Sussex for a one-off performance in association with the Rye Arts Festival. The London run also includes free entry to an exhibition […]
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