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2024-01-13 17:21:00
Eavesdropping on their dramas: Opera North's 'in the round' production Britten's Albert Herring
Britten: Albert Herring - Claire Pascoe, Dafydd Jones - Opera North (Photo: Tom Arber) Britten: Albert Herring; Judith Howarth, Heather Shipp, Amy Freston, William Dazeley, Paul Nilon, Richard Mosley-Evans, Dominic Sedgwick, Dafydd Jones, Katie Bray, Claire Pascoe, Rosa Sparks Willow Bell, Oliver Mason, director: Giles Havergal/Elaine Tyler-Hall, conductor: Garry Walker; Opera North at the Howard Assembly RoomA wonderfully involving revival of Giles Havergal's intimate, in the round production of Britten's comedy brings out the work's humanityBritten's Albert Herring was written as a relatively portable chamber opera for the English Opera Group. Famously premiered at Glyndebourne in 1947, when John Christie evidently told people he didn't like it, the work has generally been performed in medium to large size theatres. When Giles Havergal directed the work for Opera North in 2013, it was performed not in the Grand Theatre, Leeds, but in the smaller Howard Assembly Room.The production returned to the Howard Assembly […]
2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
[…] visual arts programme offers a nice contrast to the performing side of events. For instance, renowned conceptual artist, Cerith Wyn Evans, will light up the Dovecote Studios with a neon installation which takes inspiration from his relationship with Japanese Noh Theatre thereby complementing well a new production of Britten’s Curlew River set to a libretto by William Plomer and first performed 60 years ago (13th June 1964) at the church of St Bartholomew, Orford, by the English Opera Group, directed by Colin Graham. This was the first of Britten’s three ‘Parables’ for church performance based on the Japanese Noh play, Sumidagawa (Sumida River) by Kanze Jūrō (1395-1431), which Britten saw during a visit to Japan and the Far East in early 1956. TThe second of the ‘Parable’ operas The Burning Fiery Furnace came in 1966 followed by The Prodigal Son in 1968 - all with libretti by Plomer. I attended all three première […]
2021-10-03 11:37:00
As a Wagner conductor he has no equal
[…] performance of Britten’s Peter Grimes when the Tanglewood premiere (it was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky in memory of his wife) was cancelled due to wartime transport difficulties. Britten specifically requested that Goodall conduct the first performance in preference to several other more experienced conductors, and the premiere on 7 June 1945 was a triumph, with both Britten and Goodall being lavishly praised by the critics.Goodall went on to conduct The Rape of Lucretia for Britten’s English Opera Group. But the most definitely heterosexual Goodall found Britten’s next opera, Albert Herring, ‘prissy’ and the composer himself ‘East Anglican’, and their working relationship cooled. In 1946 Goodall joined Covent Garden as assistant conductor to music director Karl Rankl, and Goodall conducted Britten’s Gloriana in, of all places, Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia in 1953. Later the same year Goodall replaced Britten as conductor for Peter Grimes at Covent Garden, and the excellent reviews […]
2021-02-19 03:25:25
A graduate of Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music, he made his conducting debut with the Oxford Chamber Orchestra. Bedford was on the staff at the Glyndebourne Opera House, a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. He conducted the English Opera Group, Welsh National Opera, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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