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An Australian mezzo has won the 2023 Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers' Competition
2023-12-08 08:53:00
An Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, Italian and a German find themselves on a desert island: Bampton Classical Opera explores Alcina's Island
[…] magical island where the seductive and beautiful sorceress (although 800 years old) has a habit of discarding her lovers and turning them into rocks or animals. Gazzaniga's music is fluent, cheerful and graceful, propelling the story forward with restless energy.The opera was a success, it was widely seen in Europe until 1785. There were performances at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket, London in 1776 and 1777 – but probably not in England since then. Now Bampton Classical Opera are producing it for their 2024 season, with performances in Bampton, Westonbirt School, Wadhurst in East Sussex and St John's Smith Square.The company's 2023 production of Salieri's At the Venice Fair was shortlisted for the International Opera Awards 2023, in the Rediscovered Work category. And Bampton's recent Young Singers' Competition was won by mezzo-soprano Melissa Gregory Further details from the Bampton Opera website.
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