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pianist, composer, and publisher active in the United States after 1895
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2024-03-15 09:42:00
Almost an expressionist nightmare: Janáček's Jenůfa at ENO with Jennifer Davis in the title role
Janáček:Jenůfa, Act 3 - Jennifer Davis - English National Opera, 2024 (Photo: © Ellie Kurttz)Janáček: Jenůfa; Jennifer Davis, Susan Bullock, Richard Trey Smagur, John Findon, Fiona Kimm, director: David Alden, conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson; English National Opera at the London ColiseumReviewed 13 March 2024A vivid account of tis hard-edged, expressionist production showcasing intense and profound performances from the principalsDavid Alden's production of Janáček's Jenůfa at English National Opera debuted in 2006 and was last seen at the London Coliseum in 2016 [see my review]. The latest revival of the production is the last fully-staged opera ENO performs this season (two semi-staged performances of Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle are to come), a significant moment when a large amount of 'who knows' seems to hang over the whole enterprise. But this revival, directed by David Alden, with movement director Maxine Braham, seemed to be a stake in the sand, showing what ENO does best. Conducted by […]
2023-11-30 16:37:17
Warwick Arts Centre, CoventryIndia’s only professional orchestra, here on the first date of a UK tour, has plenty of character and fine musicians. Pavel Kolesnikov was a slightly stiff soloist in Braham’s second piano concerto.Founded in 2006, the Symphony Orchestra of India is the country’s first and only professional orchestra.
2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
[…] aria: ‘Who can turn the skies back? And begin again...?’ Here you realise that’s he’s not the monster that everyone thinks he is. Abruptly, the scene ends with Grimes taking the boy - who eventually meets his end by falling down a cliff hurrying to get to his boat - to a great outcry. What offers this production so much depth and interest are the strong and effective crowd scenes created by movement director, Maxine Braham. For instance, the opening scene was more than striking packed by local misfits, busybodies and all those annoying types crowding the back of the courtroom to witness the local coroner and drunkard, Swallow (sung cunningly by Clive Bayley) conducting an inquest into the death of William Spode, Grimes’ first apprentice, who died in his fishing boat. Although acquitted of any wrongdoing, the ‘locals’ thought otherwise and were out for his blood. The cast is […]
2022-06-13 10:28:02
On a highly concentrated scale: Verdi's Macbeth at The Grange Festival
Verdi: Macbeth - Gezim Myshketa - The Grange Festival (Photo Simon Annand) Verdi: Macbeth (1865); Judith Howarth, Gezim Myshketa, Jonathan Lemalu, Samuel Sakker, director: Maxine Braham, conductor: Francesco Cilluffo, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; The Grange FestivalReviewed 11 June 2022 (★★★★½) Stunning singing and vivid performances bring out the sense of character in the revised version Verdi's first Shakespearean opera Verdi: Macbeth - Judith Howarth - The Grange Festival (Photo Bodnar Photography) Verdi's Macbeth premiered at the Teatro all Pergola in Florence in 1847. It had a respectable life in Italian houses before Verdi revised it for Paris in 1865 (where it was performed by the Théâtre Lyrique at what is now the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris), but then the work rather languished till the 20th century. This has left the opera with a somewhat complicated history, modern performances tend to focus on the 1865 revision, but miss out […]
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