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Three Irish opera/music theatre companies have made the shortlist for three different Fedora prizes; Irish National Opera in the digital category, Wexford Festival Opera in the education category and Straymaker in the Opera Prize Category. In this episode we speak to Michael Gallen, the composer of a new opera called Elsewhere and founder of Straymaker.
In this episode we speak to Irish composer Andrew Synnott about his musical upbringing, influences and new opera La Cucina which will premiere at Wexford Festival Opera this October.
In this episode we speak to pianist Dr. Una Hunt about her involvement in two upcoming productions of operas by Irish composers. The first is Balfe’s The Sleeping Queen to be performed at The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and the Mananan International Festival of Music & The Arts and the second is Stanford’s The Veiled Prophet which takes place at this year’s Wexford Festival Opera.
2019-01-03 11:32:13
Duration (h:m:s): 51:18
Preview Episode ahead of our official launch in Spring 2019. Support our crowdfunder to get Operacast up and running in 2019 - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/operacastpod Episode content 1) Wexford's new season - https://www.wexfordopera.com/media/news/wexford-festival-opera-announces-dates-and-main-evening-operas-for-2019 2) RNCM Lecturer in Musician's Health & Wellbeing - https://www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-commits-to-supporting-student-health-and-wellbeing/ 3) Opera on radio and television 4) Tete a Tete YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYvUpB2Q-JTgd5iPJMwcWpA 5) Aigul Akhmetshina at the Royal Opera House - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEPAAENld2s 6) Tilda Swinton and Handel - https://youtu.be/XcTS15OO0Bw 7) Hidden Gem - ‘Hochzeit des Camacho’, Mendelssohn 8) Opera quiz - Wagner P.S. Apologies to Cheryl Barker, who did indeed appear in the 'La Boheme' that Ben saw on the TV P.P.S. Let’s not forget, though, that Cheryl Baker (of Bucks Fizz) did appear in ‘Popstar to Operastar’ - https://youtu.be/vGrYMIYsBDM P.P.P.S. Apologies for David's and Ben's interesting pronunciation of composers and operas ... Spotify playlist to accompany the episode - http://bit.ly/Bucksfizz Recorded at Chapel FM, Leeds, on 17 December 2018 Host - David Ward Guest - Ben Crick