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2024-02-07 10:46:00
A lovely documentary from Scottish Opera that follows emerging artists Ross Cumming (baritone), Inna Husieva (soprano), Monwabisi Lindi (tenor), costume trainee Lovisa Litsgard, associate artist Lea Shaw (mezzo-soprano) and emerging artist repetiteur José Javier Ucendo, in their journey to create a performance of Rossini's The Barber of Seville in October 2023. [We caught both Inna Husieva and Monwabisi Lindi in opera scenes during their time at the National Opera Studio in January 2022, see my review, whilst Ross Cumming was Pilgrim in British Youth Opera's production of Vaughan Williams' The Pilgrim's Progress at the Three Choirs Festival in 2023, see my review]Ross Cumming, Inna Husieva and Lea Shaw will be performing around Scotland in Scottish Opera's Spring 2024 Opera Highlights tour. See the website for details.The documentary was filmed at Scottish Opera's Production Studios, Edington Street and Elmbank Crescent, and Theatre Royal Glasgow during October 2023. Filmed and edited by Antonia Bain. See the video on YouTube. […]
2023-06-04 12:09:03
On this day in 1967 Barbara Bain won the Emmy Award for “Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series” for Mission: Impossible.
2022-04-19 07:58:39
Going Global: the Benedetti Foundation's Virtual Sessions are taking violinists on a trip round the world
The Benedetti Foundation's Virtual Sessions are back, with Global Violin Sessions: A Cultural Exchange Part 2 which is running from 18 April to 8 May 2022, taking the participants on a trip round the world through the eyes of the violin. Over three weekends, guest artists will help participants to visit other traditions, looking at what is similar and what is different. The three groups of guest artists are Aly Bain (fiddle), Phil Cunningham (according) and Jenna Reid (fiddle) - Scotland, The Ayoub Sisters - (violin and cello) - Egypt, Timothy Chooi (violin) and Laure Chan (violin) - East Meets West. There will be a tune by Phil Cunningham which will be debuted by Nicola Benedetti and then passed around the musicians over the three weeks; each violinist along with musical friends will make it their own. They will change rhythms, twist notes, rewrite corners, add instrumentation and colours and effects […]
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2020-11-20 13:07:14
Booker Prize 2020 Goes To Douglas Stuart’s ‘Shuggie Bain’
The Scottish-American writer’s debut novel follows the title character, an impoverished boy in 1980s Glasgow, “as he attempts to care for his alcoholic mother, Agnes, whose descent into alcoholism coincides with her youngest son’s growing awareness of his sexuality. The novel is dedicated to Stuart’s mother, who died of alcoholism when he was 16.” – […]
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