Etienne Dupuis News
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2024-03-29
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2024-01-01 11:16:00
A time to look back
[…] Puccini's Tosca and La Rondine, and the Masque of Might at Opera North, and caught up with composer Jasdeep Singh Degun.Interviews in 2023 included Cameron Menzies of Northern Ireland Opera, film composer Debbie Wiseman, composer Bushra El-Turk, conductor Francesco Cilluffo, and an 80th birthday interview with Stephen Montague. We chatted to two LGBT singers, Reginald Mobley and Elgan Llyr Thomas, had a bit of a Canadian theme with interviews with composer Margaret Maria, baritone Etienne Dupuis, and conductor Alexander Shelley.Wishing you all a Happy New Year
2023-10-23 07:12:00
A little bit crazy yet done with verve, imagination and style: The Masque of Might, David Pountney's Purcellian masque at Opera North
[…] restored, the celebrations featured dancers as sunflowers with bees to pollinate each other, a fun reference to 17th-century dance, and the Gods reappeared.The second part was, perhaps, too long but the whole had an engaging verve and there was the delight of encountering familiar Purcell in a new guise, alongside the unfamiliar. Very little had been changed, a few first lines adjusted and one number got new words. When I chatted to Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis [see my review], he was saying about stagings needing to keep the emotional truth of the music. This was true here, Pountney was using the pieces in different contexts but he remained true to the music's intent. Everyone had their moments in the spotlight. Andri Björn Róbertsson moved from King Louis XIV style grandeur in the prologue to a climate-change activist with a powerful duet (with Xavier Hetherington) from the Welcome Song for King James […]
2023-10-21 13:00:05
La forza del destino
Sondra Radvanovsky, Brian Jagde, Etienne Dupuis, and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in a (surely very loud) broadcast from London conducted by Mark Elder.
2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
[…] reviewModernising Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea from English Touring Opera in a radical new version by Yshani Perinpanayagam - opera reviewThe 1930s sextet: contrasting works from Dohnanyi and Poulenc at the heart of Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and Orsino Winds collaborative concert - concert reviewThe sheer delight of playing together: Ben Goldscheider & friends in Brahms, Schumann & Joseph Phibbs premiere at Hatfield House - concert reviewWhat is essential is that you have to be passionate about the work: Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis, Don Carlo in the Royal Opera's revival of La Forza del Destino on his clutch of Verdi roles - interviewHome
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