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2021-04-25 09:57:53
A Life On-Line: debut in Bournemouth, early English at St Martin's, Bach's Pergolesi and John Eliot Gardiner on Monteverdi
[…] Bach using a rather richer orchestration than Pergolesi and a new German text from Psalm 51. Given the manuscript date of 1746/47, it looks as if the performance in Leipzig took place before Pergolesi's work was published in 1748. The soloists at the academy were Isabelle Atkinson and Isla MacEwan – soprano, Lauren Macleod – mezzo-soprano, Daniel Swani – flute. Highly recommended. [YouTube] One last quick mention, if you haven't already to go and investigate OperaUpClose's latest on-line season, Songs of Solace and Spring which combine spoken word with opera and song with a focus on Shakespeare and the programmes are very much put together by the artists themselves, performing music about which they are passionate. The series is available until 13 May. [OperaUpClose]
2021-03-15 08:59:20
Music, poetry & more: OperaUpClose returns to Shakespeare for its latest Coffee Break Concerts
OperaUpClose is returning with a third series of on-line Coffee Break Concerts, Songs of Solace and Spring. The concerts are all under 30 minutes and feature a mix of poetry, monologues, songs and music for theatre, including introductions from actor Fiona Shaw. Shakespeare Re-Shaped debuts on 17 March 2020 and features music from Gounod's Romeo & Juliet and Verdi's Falstaff performed by Claire Wild (soprano), Joseph Doody (tenor), Rodney Clarke (baritone) and Kelvin Lim (piano), alongside readings from Shakespeare from actor Kat Rose-Martin (including her own newly written response piece to Shakespeare and Verdi’s Ford) and deaf actor Lara Steward performing Juliet’s ‘Gallop apace’ monologue in British Sign Language. Calming the Tempest debuts on 31 March 2020 and returns to Shakespeare with tenor Joseph Doody in Guy Woolfenden’s Songs of Ariel (written for Ian Charleson as part of a legendary 1978 RSC production of The Tempest), music from singer-songwriter Rosabella […]
2021-02-07 11:42:29
A Life On-Line: an operatic ghost story from OperaGlass Works, an urban fairytale from OperaUpClose, Francis Poulenc and rare Kurt Weill from the archives
Robin Norton-Hale & Rosabella Gregory: Sammy and the Beanstalk - Abigail Kelly, Tom Stoddart - OperaUp Close This week we have a new film version of Britten's operatic ghost story from OperaGlass Works, a new opera for families based on a modern fairytale from OperaUpClose, Bryce Dessner's Concerto for Two Pianos live from Prague, and archive recordings of Kurt Weill's The Firebrand of Florence and Poulenc's The Carmelites/ Way back in February 2020, I interviewed Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson from OperaGlass Works during a gap in rehearsals at Wilton's Music Hall in advance of their production of Britten's The Turn of the Screw. Days before the first night, the performances were postponed/cancelled, and ultimately the production was re-invented as a film which has debuted on Marquee TV. You can read my (slightly revised) interview article on the blog, Never say Never. The film, directed by Cadell, Thompson and Dominic […]
2019-05-13 08:04:13
In Opera Magazine
Nice to see a review of OperaUpClose’s new production of Donizetti’s Mary Stuart in the June 2019 edition of Opera Magazine. The production features Flora McIntosh as Mary and Julian Debreuil as Talbot, both Flora and Julian will of course be singing in The Gardeners on 18 June, Flora plays the Grandmother and Julian plays The Gardener. Tickets for The Gardeners at Conway Hall on 18 June are available from TicketTailor. Also featuring in Opera magazine this month, our advert for The Gardeners looking very handsome in in Stephen A. Brown's article 'Carry on Singing' about competitions and young artists' programmes, a lovely way to feature the young artists performing in The Gardeners.
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