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Reviews of Buxton International Festival operas 2022
La Donna del Lago at Buxton International Festival: Máire Flavin as Elena (red dress) Credit Genevieve GirlingLa Donna del Lago Tottola and Rossini, after Walter Scott Buxton International Festival Buxton Opera House 8, 12, 15,17, 22 July 2022, 2 hours 50 minutes After the outright cancellation of 2020 and constrained conditions of 2021, Buxton International Festival is back and firing on all cylinders this year. And its operatic flagship is a masterwork by Rossini. Written in 1819, it was inspired by Walter Scott’s poem, The Lady of the Lake, and is an early example in European opera of full-blown Romantic ideas coming to the fore – war and peace, love and rivalry, wild and remote locations, supposed ancient traditions and figures from the past. There’s even a reference (not taken from Scott) to characters in the writings of the mythical Scottish bard, “Ossian”, a literary fake that hoodwinked most people […]
2020-05-03 09:41:38
A Life On-Line: Alan Bush, Tudor queens in Italy and Jakub Józef Orliński at the Wigmore Hall
Alan Bush at his home in Radlett, taken from Anna Ambrose's 1983 documentary Alan Bush: A Life Thanks to someone on my Twitter feed, I found out about Anna Ambrose's 1983 documentary about the composer Alan Bush on BFI Player, Alan Bush: A Life. Just over an hour, it contains a fascinating interview with Alan intercut with his music, archive footage and other interviews including the composer Michael Tippett whose life very much intersected with that of Alan Bush in the 1930s particularly. I met Alan Bush twice, at his home in Radlett, in connection with him providing music for the Pink Singers, and he and his wife Nancy (who was librettist to some of his operas) were full of remarkable reminiscences. Alan Bush's music still seems underrated, and his opera Watt Tyler is very high on my want to see list.On YouTube, Stile Antico has been having […]
2018-08-04 09:00:50
Introducing the art of bel canto - the London Bel Canto Festival
Nina Sveistrup Clausen (soprano) and Janus Araghipour (piano) at last year's London Bel Canto Festival The London Bel Canto Festival returns to London for the second year (6-22 August 2018) providing a programme of masterclasses and concerts celebrating the art of bel canto. But what exactly is bel canto, and what does the festival hope to achieve? I met up with the festival's founder and artistic director, Kenneth Querns Langley, to find out more about the fesitval, as well as discovering some of Kenneth's own researches into the early 19th century tenor voice. Kenneth explained the aims of the festival are three-fold, an academy for young singers, performances and encouraging new music. During the festival, the academy works with young singers to educate them in historical approaches to bel canto technique. Not necessarily bel canto repertoire, but how bel canto technique can be used in other repertoire too. The festival also […]
2018-03-28 17:49:40
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee has earned a reputation as one of the top Bel Canto Singers of his generation. In recent years, though, he's wanted to expand his horizons to include projects that were more dramatic and more topical.
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