Benjamin Britten The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54 Videos
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Benjamin Britten Eilene Hannan Jessel Dixon Quint Anson
Recorded at His Majesty's Theatre Perth Prologue - Robert Gard Governess - Eilene Hannan Miles - Patrick Littlemore Flora - Lanneke Jones Mrs Grose - Margaret Haggart Miss Jessel - Wendy Dixon Peter Quint - Anson Austin Conductor - David Stanhope Director - Neil Armfield
Benjamin Britten Mary Hollis Hundley Santa Fe Opera
"Tower Scene" from Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw. Mary-Hollis Hundley, soprano and Blair Salzer, piano. Recorded at the Santa Fe Opera. Check out www.maryhollishundley.com for more
Ruggero Leoncavallo Colin Davis Pierre Boulez Bernard Haitink Pereira Richard Rodney Bennett Jaroslav Kyzlink Smetana Montgomery Philip Glass Biel Schoenberg Britten Gluck Tchaikovsky Opernhaus Zürich Theater Wien Zürcher Kammerorchester
BVOF Conductor Darren Hargan explains the Ruggero Leoncavallo masterpiece Pagliacci. Darren was born in Ireland, Darren Hargan trained with a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He subsequently received a Master’s degree in conducting from the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana where he studied with renowned contemporary music specialist Arturo Tamayo, and Professor of conducting at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste Marc Kissoczy. He has also participated in masterclasses with Colin Davis, Colin Metters, Pierre Boulez and Bernard Haitink. After conducting the world premiere of Gerard McBurney’s opera The Airman’s Tale in London, he was appointed to the position of assistant musical director at the Internationales Opernstudio, Zurich, and was engaged as pianist and vocal coach at the Opernhaus Zürich under Alexander Pereira. As assistant conductor he worked at the Wexford Opera Festival with Stewart Robinson for Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur, and with Jaroslav Kyzlink for Smetana’s Hubička. Later he assisted Kenneth Montgomery for Don Giovanni at Le Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Philip Glass for his opera In the Penal Colony with the Zürcher Kammerorchester. As a guest he has worked at the Theater Luzern and Theater Biel-Solothurn. His operatic repertoire includes Hansel and Gretel, La Bohème, Lucia di Lamermoor, L’Elisir d’amore, La Cenerentola, Le nozze di Figaro and La finta giardiniera, With his own ensemble he has conducted Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Verklärte Nacht as well as Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, The Turn of the Screw and a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Switzerland and England for the Britten Centenary. He has also conducted many projects with period instruments including a new production of Gluck’s Armide with French classical instruments. He has conducted the Karlsbader Sinfonieorchester in music by Tchaikovsky and stepped in at short notice to conduct Il barbiere di Siviglia in Lugano with an all-star cast. Darren was the assistant conductor for the production of Der fliegende Holländer at the Summer Opera Festival in Selzach. He has most recently worked as guest pianist and assistant conductor at Theater an der Wien.
Britten Noa Danon Danon Mellor Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Lezion Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center 2013
B. Britten: The Turn of the Screw (var. 2-4) Noa Danon- Governess Julie Mellor- Mrs. Gross Yarden Suessholz- Flora Dominick Williams- Miles (production directed by Alessandro Talevi) Members of the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Lezion Conductor: Ethan Schmeisser (Recorded at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center at 22/2/2013)
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