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Scottish conductor, harpsichordist and baroque music specialist.
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2023-11-01 08:33:00
Haydn, Handel, Bizet, Smyth and early Verdi: after a successful 2023 festival, Buxton announces plans for 2024
[…] Nabucco and I Lombardi the opera would be Verdi's most popular one in Italy until he wrote Il Trovatore. Performance of the opera in the UK have been somewhat patchy, the last major staging by a UK company seems to have been ENO in 2000, in a production reworking an earlier one from WNO. The present Royal Opera company has never performed the work.Also in the opera house, The festival is joining forces with Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company to present a staging of Handel's early oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. Written in 1707, the work was Handel's first oratorio, premiered in Rome at a time when opera was banned so that aristocratic patrons turned to oratorio. Handel returned to it twice in London, once in 1737 for an expanded Italian version and again in 1757 when Handel, now blind, created an English language version […]
2023-10-08 09:35:00
Musical pleasure: strong & stylish performances from a young cast in English Touring Opera's new production of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
[…] Collective and Orsino Winds collaborative concert - concert reviewThe sheer delight of playing together: Ben Goldscheider & friends in Brahms, Schumann & Joseph Phibbs premiere at Hatfield House - concert reviewWhat is essential is that you have to be passionate about the work: Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis, Don Carlo in the Royal Opera's revival of La Forza del Destino on his clutch of Verdi roles - interviewThree more gems: British Piano Concertos from Simon Callaghan & BBC National Orchestra of Wales - record reviewDramatick Opera: Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company in Purcell and Dryden's King Arthur at Temple - opera reviewHome
2023-10-07 09:09:00
Astonishing that no-one has heard or heard of the work: Ella Marchment on directing Camille Erlanger's L'Aube rouge at Wexford
[…] Collective and Orsino Winds collaborative concert - concert reviewThe sheer delight of playing together: Ben Goldscheider & friends in Brahms, Schumann & Joseph Phibbs premiere at Hatfield House - concert reviewWhat is essential is that you have to be passionate about the work: Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis, Don Carlo in the Royal Opera's revival of La Forza del Destino on his clutch of Verdi roles - interviewThree more gems: British Piano Concertos from Simon Callaghan & BBC National Orchestra of Wales - record reviewDramatick Opera: Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company in Purcell and Dryden's King Arthur at Temple - opera reviewDrinking the stars: Mary Dullea plays the piano music of John McLachlan - record reviewHome
2023-10-06 11:51:00
The flower fairies are back: Cal McCrystal's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe for ENO fills the London Coliseum with colour, movement & comedy
[…] Collective and Orsino Winds collaborative concert - concert reviewThe sheer delight of playing together: Ben Goldscheider & friends in Brahms, Schumann & Joseph Phibbs premiere at Hatfield House - concert reviewWhat is essential is that you have to be passionate about the work: Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis, Don Carlo in the Royal Opera's revival of La Forza del Destino on his clutch of Verdi roles - interviewThree more gems: British Piano Concertos from Simon Callaghan & BBC National Orchestra of Wales - record reviewDramatick Opera: Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company in Purcell and Dryden's King Arthur at Temple - opera reviewDrinking the stars: Mary Dullea plays the piano music of John McLachlan - record reviewA Lady and her Reputation: with modern recordings of Ethel Smyth's major works in the catalogue, we now need to put her work into a proper context - featureHome
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