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Reviews of the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company at Buxton
[…] were Matthew Palmer (Strephon), an excellent young tenor still at the outset of what should be a very successful career, and Meriel Cunningham (Iolanthe), who has a rich mezzo-soprano tone and real clarity. Matthew Kellett enjoys rattling off the patter as the Lord Chancellor; Matthew Siveter has his spot of glory as Private Willis; Emily Vine is a winsome Phyllis and Amy J Payne an imperious Queen of the Fairies; and Ben McAteer and Hal Cazalet enjoy prancing their way through as Earls Mountararat and Tolloller. Utopia LimitedOne of the orchestra members was using the audience loos (which are few anyway) before the show at Buxton on Friday night, so I asked him whether they didn’t provide enough of them backstage. “Yes,” he said, “but they’re all full of the turns, warming up their voices.” A tangential illustration of one facet of producing Gilbert & Sullivan’s next-to-last operetta, Utopia […]
2018-12-16 06:59:33
The composer’s horn trio paired with Ligeti, Garrick Ohlsson’s riveting account of the late piano works and Radio 3 essays revisited • Brahms’s father was a horn player. The composer himself played the piano and, to a lesser extent, the violin. His understanding of all three instruments – an odd combination which he pioneered – gives a special eloquence to the Horn Trio in E flat, written in 1865 when Brahms was 32 years old. Horns with valves were in use, but he opted, here, for the “natural” horn, with its more limited range and raw, melancholy timbre. André Cazalet (horn), Guy Comentale (violin) and Cyril Huvé (piano) give an eloquent performance
2016-04-05 12:31:15
Tonight, April 5 at 7:00 p.m. at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall , NYFOS founders, artistic directors and pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett play host to an evening of songs and scenes from the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, operettas that combine the wit of Oscar Wilde with the delicacy of Mendelssohn. Dinner at the '21' Club with additional performances will follow.
2016-01-09 01:01:30
On Tuesday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m. at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall , NYFOS founders, artistic directors and pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett play host to an evening of songs and scenes from the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, operettas that combine the wit of Oscar Wilde with the delicacy of Mendelssohn. Dinner at the '21' Club with additional performances will follow.