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2022-08-07 14:33:00
Stupendous achievement: Grimeborn's Ring adventure comes to a thrilling and satisfying conclusion at the Hackney Empire
[…] the performances of Julia Burbach's production of Wagner's Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at the Hackney Empire. The adaptation by Graham Vick and Jonathan Dove was used, with Peter Selwyn conducting the Orpheus Sinfonia. Lee Bisset was Brünnhilde, Paul Carey Jones was the Wanderer, Freddie Tong was Alberich, with Neal Cooper as Siegfried (in Siegfried) and Mark Le Brocq as Siegfried (in Götterdämmerung), plus Lucy Anderson (Gutrune), Mae Heydorn (Erda, Flosshilde), Lizzie Holmes (Woglinde), Elizabeth Karani (Woodbird), Bethan Mary Langford (Wellgunde), Angharad Lyddon (Waltraute), Simon Thorpe (Gunther), and Simon Wilding (Fafner, Hagen). Designs were by Bettina John, and lighting by Robert Price.The two operas were performed as a double-bill (as Vick and Dove originally intended with City of Birmingham Opera); Siegfried in a single span of two hours, with Götterdämmerung in the evening with an interval. We thus had over four hours of music, and the young players of the Orpheus Sinfonia (just 18 of them) performing a truly heroic […]
2022-06-13 09:07:49
[…] brocade and bling – toys with the lives and liberties of his prisoners and victims, his manipulations breeding deceit and equivocation in a world in which only Paul Nilon’s morally principled Bajazet values his integrity over his life. Feigning compliance, Sophie Bevan’s Asteria secretly plots murder, while Andronico (Patrick Terry) alternately fawns sycophantically and bribes Tamerlano’s henchmen for the sake of his own and others’ survival. By the end, though, it is apparent that Angharad Lyddon’s proud, calculating Irene will prove more than a match for the man she is determined to control in her turn. In rep at the
2022-06-13 08:41:20
Baroque mind games: Handel's Tamerlano at The Grange Festival
Handel:Tamerlano - The Grange Festival (Photo Simon Anand) Handel: Tamerlano; Raffaele Pe, Paul Nilon, Sophie Bevan, Patrick Terry, Angharad Lyddon, director: Daniel Slater, conductor: Robert Howarth, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; The Grange FestivalReviewed 10 June 2022 (★★★★★) Strong performances and an intelligently modern-dress staging make Handel's darkest operatic drama a gripping evening Tamerlano is regarded as one of Handel's greatest operas yet productions of it in the UK have been few and far between in recent years, but that has all changed. Cambridge Handel Opera, the Grange Festival and English Touring Opera are all addressing the work, whilst Irish National Opera looked at Vivaldi's take on the same story. Opera seria is such that each production can be somewhat different, taking a different route to addressing the fundamental issues at stake in the opera. Whilst Tamerlano does contain two of the greatest dramatic scenes that Handel wrote in his Italian operas, the opera's complex […]
2021-08-14 08:16:11
Don't be scared of song: I chat to pianist Malcolm Martineau the sheer variety of Fauré's songs
[…] and so Malcolm was taken backstage to meet the great man after the concert. Many years later, after he had stopped singing, Fischer Dieskau came to a recital that Malcolm gave in Berlin with baritone Bryn Terfel. After the concert, Fischer Dieskau commented that none of the songs was how he would do, them but that he loved it! Malcolm Martineau Having accompanied the six young singers (Martha Jones, Laurence Kilsby, Angharad Lyddon, Madison Nonoa, Alex Otterburn, Dominic Sedgwick) on the Momentum disc, The Call, from Stone Records [see my review], Malcolm has several Wigmore Hall's Sunday afternoon concerts coming up with other young singers and will be doing a Cadogan Hall Prom with Ema Nikolovska, but no-one is planning big series at the moment. He has finished recording his complete songs of Henri Duparc, with Nicky Spence, Huw Montague Rendall and Sarah Connolly, which will be […]
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