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2023-09-08 21:59:56
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2020-02-04 07:29:24
New operas, a new team - Welsh National Opera approaches its 75th anniversary
Olivia Fuchs' production of Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Lucia Cervoni, Margaret Baiton, Louise Alder WNO 2017 (photo Bill Cooper) Welsh National Opera turns 75 in 2021 and its recently announced 2020/21 season sees the company approaching that milestone with a new team firmly in place; general director Aidan Lang [previously in charge of Seattle Opera, New Zealand Opera and the Buxton Festival] has been in post since July 2019 and music director Tomáš Hanus has renewed his contract to 2026, a position he took over in 2016. But that does not mean that the companies previous artistic director, Sir David Pountney, is completely out of the picture as Pountney is heavily involved in a new work being premiered in Autumn 2020, Will Todd's Migrations which forms part of the Mayflower 2020 celebrations. The opera will continue WNO's work with refugees, which began last year, and the company is also extending […]
2018-09-13 07:12:12
Movements around Buxton
Northern Chamber Orchestra at the Stoller Hall, Manchester Now that he has stepped down as Buxton International Festival's artistic director, conductor Stephen Barlow has become patron of Northern Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra, which is the oldest professional chamber ensemble in the North West, has been in residence at the Buxton Festival since 2011. The announcement comes as the orchestra begins its 51st season, with concerts in Manchester, Macclesfield and London. Last year Barlow and the orchestra released an imaginative disc, Mind Music, with music by Richard Strauss, John Adams, and Kevin Malone supporting Parkinsons UK [see my review].For those with long memories, one of Barlow's predecessors at Buxton, Aidan Lang (who ran the festival from 2000 to 2006) is returning from foreign climes (with stints at New Zealand Opera and Seattle Opera) to become the new General Director of Welsh National Opera in succession to David Poutney.
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