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2021-11-01 09:05:41
Back with a bang: Donizetti's Roberto Devereux from Chelsea Opera Group with Helena Dix and Eleazar Rodrigues
[…] ensemble here, and of bel canto as drama. But in the end, the evening, was, of course, the diva's as Helena Dix brought the house down with a terrific account of her final aria. Chelsea Opera Group returns on 3 April 2022 with Verdi's rarely performed first opera Oberto, conducted by Matthew Scott Rogers with Anush Hovhannisyan and Carolyn Dobbin. Further ahead there is Gluck's Orfeo ed Eurydice to look forward to with Gary Matthewman, Caitlin Hulcup and Fflur Wyn. Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog Hi-jinks on the high-seas: Cal McCrystal's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore at English National Opera - opera review Everything is in the music: conductor Antonello Manacorda on returning to La Traviata at Covent Garden, balancing concert work & opera, & […]
2020-07-12 16:31:53
A Life On-Line: the other Semele, and an alternative Tristan and Isolde
Frank Martin: Le vin herbé - Caitlin Hulcup, Tom RandleWelsh National Opera (Photo Robert Workman) Our opera viewing this week was very much devoted to rarities. We began with a piece that I have never heard live, Frank Martin's Le vin herbé, in a production directed by Polly Graham for Welsh National Opera in 2017, courtesy of OperaVision. Not strictly an opera, this is a small scale piece with the emphasis on the chorus, here the terrific chorus of Welsh National Opera which provided the many smaller solo roles, with Tom Randle and Caitlin Hulcup as the Tristan and Iseult, and Catherine Wyn Rogers as Iseult's mother. James Southall conducted. The story is rather different to that in Wagner's opera, and Martin's music more concentrated and intense, yet with the same tragic results. Fascinatingly, the last time I saw Schoenberg's Moses und Aron staged it was performed […]
2019-12-01 08:29:07
Handel and the Hanoverians: 2020 London Handel Festival
[…] in a new edition, and with a cast featuring a number of former Handel Singing Competition winners. There will also be a chance to explore Handel's Heroines in a concert from sopranos Mary Bevan and Jennifer France with Laurence Cummings conducting the Academy of Ancient Music.The Handel Singing Competition takes place during the festival, with the final on 26 March 2020, and there is a chance to hear alumni of the competition, Erica Eloff, Caitlin Hulcup, Alexander Sprague and Lisandro Abadie, in concert with Laurence Cummmings and the London Handel Orchestra.The festival theme pops up in a further pair of concerts with the Brook Street Band. They will be performing chamber music written by composers supported by the Royal family, and a pairing of Handel's Ode to St Cecilia and Arne's Alfred, with John Andrews conducting. Alfred was premiered at Cliveden, then the home of the Prince of Wales, and […]
2019-06-28 07:59:24
Musically satisfying: Hansel & Gretel at Grange Park Opera
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel (Act 2) - Soraya Mafi, Caitlin Hulcup - Grange Park Opera 2019(Photo Richard Hubert Smith) Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel; Soraya Mafi, Caitlin Hulcup, Susan Bullock, William Dazeley, dir: Stephen Medcalf, orchestra of English National Opera, cond: George Jackson; Grange Park Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 June 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A musically literate and satisfying performance illuminates a picture-book production Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel (Act 3) - Susan Bullock as the WitchGrange Park Opera 2019 - (Photo Richard Hubert Smith) When Engelbert Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, wrote the libretto to Hansel and Gretel the idea of a poor family living in a hut near the woods, on the bread-line, would have had an element of realism to it despite the sentimental layers which Wette adds to the tale. But from our contemporary perspective it is […]
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