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American operatic tenor (1922-2012)
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- Germany, United States of America
- singer, opera singer
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2024-04-23
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2024-03-25 09:57:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: Blond Eckbert and Curlew River, plus Unsuk Chin, Judith Weir, Alban Gerhardt and Daniel Pioro as featured artists
[…] The Leonkoro Quartet premiere Weir's second string quartet, The Spaniard, and there are performances of more of Weir's music from pianists Stephen Osborne and Rolf Hind, Trio Boheme, the Nash Ensemble, Aldeburgh Voices and Tenebrae.Pianists Joseph Havlat and Rolf Hind will be sharing performance of Unsuk Chin's complete Preludes, whilst Tenebrae premiere Chin's new 40-part motet to go with Tallis' Spem in Alium for performance in Ely Cathedral. The Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, conductor Roderick Cox, premiere Chin's Alaraph. Cellist Alban Gerhardt will be performing Unsuk Chin's Cello Concerto, a work written for him, with Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Gerhardt is also the soloist in Elgar's Cello Concerto with Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He joins forces with soprano Claire Booth and pianist Joseph Havlat for Thomas Larcher's My illness is the medicine I need, based on extracts from interviews with patients of mental-health facilities, and Splinters. Then […]
2024-03-06 10:00:00
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2024-01-15 21:53:00
West Edge Opera Festival Schedule Change
[…] was a young prodigy under her wing. Colorful and at times fractured, the form of the work echoes du Pré’s iconic interpretation of the Elgar, using the concerto’s four-movement structure to navigate a prismatic and passionate, if all too short, life in music.I've liked everything of Woolf's that I have heard, so I expect that this will be good. Also in the press release is the cast for Legend of the Ring, which looks very good:Tracy Cox (Brunnhilde), Philip Skinner (Wotan), Alex Boyer (Sigmund/Siegfried), Mary Evelyn Hangley (Freia/Sieglinde), Stephanie Sanchez (Fricka), Kyle Bielfield (Loge/Mime), Peter Morgan (Alberich/Fasolt), Matt Lovell (Fafner/Hundig). Conducted by Jonathan Khuner, Directed by Sam Helfrich.
2023-12-18 08:39:00
Pandora's Box: great tunes, a neat moral, energetic performances, London Youth Opera premieres Stuart Hancock & Donald Sturrock's new opera
[…] Duchen and Allegra Clement-Davies). Prometheus (Charlie Swann) decides to give her an extra present, a box containing a spark from the sacred flame, but Hermes (Leia Joyce) and Proteus (Cassia Corominaas Mieville) play a trick and include extra, not so nice gifts, from the gods, Pluto (Sherae Callum), Aphrodite (Indigo Corominas Mieville) and Hera (Amelie Reeve). The gods are largely selfish, with Zeus (Mahala De Santana Santos Todd) a bad-tempered slob, and only Athena (Ella Cox) seems to have the remotest bit of integrity. The arrival of the box causes consternation as Pandora and her friends open the gifts, but all is resolved. Pandora and Prometheus even look forward together.In the pit there was a small orchestra of ten based on the Odyssey Festival Orchestra. The company fielded over 40 young singers with quite a range of ages. Girls seemed to be in the majority in the company […]
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