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2024-03-30 13:00:54
Der fliegende Holländer
Stephen Milling, Bryn Terfel, Elisabet Strid, Toby Spence, and conductor Henrik Nánási star in a broadcast from London recorded earlier this month The post appeared first on parterre box.
2024-02-27 10:39:00
Der fliegende Holländer: Persona Arts, a new BME-led West Midlands based arts company staging Wagner's opera in Birmingham
Persona Arts, a new Birmingham-based opera company, is starting big, staging Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer in German in July. Persona Arts is a BME-led West Midlands based arts company that aims to stage the opera and choral arts to the highest possible standards.The artistic director is Byron Jackson, a Birmingham-born baritone off Jamaican heritage. He aims to use Persona Arts to promote the cause of opera within local communities and contribute to breaking down barriers. He is a keen advocate of diversity and the underserved which are major issues within the current UK opera arts industry; something he has faced especially due to the colour of his skin.Over the last two years, Persona Arts has been recruiting community singers from across the West Midlands to take part in the special Flying Dutchman opera chorus supporting our project partner, Birmingham Choral Union. From regional choral societies, amateur singing groups and opera […]
2024-01-01 11:16:00
A time to look back
The late Keel Watson as Wotan in Wagner's Die Walküre with Regents Opera in 2023 (Photo: Steve GregsonNew Year is always a time to look back and remember. 2023 saw us publishing 627 articles, from our review of the Dunedin Consort's 2022 New Year's Eve concert at Wigmore Hall to our note about Adam Whitmore and Phoenix Consort's crowdfunding for their debut disc of music by Alex Campkin. A total of 70 opera reviews, over 80 concert reviews, and over 40 interviews. You can explore further in our recently updated archives of live reviews, record reviews, and interviews.Overseas events that we covered included Le piano symphonique festival in Lucerne, Britten's Peter Grimes in Paris, Handel's Saul at the Komische Oper Berlin, Christoph Loy's production of Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carmen at Oper im Steinbruch in Austria, the launch of the Dresden Music Festival's historically informed Ring cycle […]
2023-09-10 16:29:00
Extravagantly theatrical: Handel's Flavio revived by Bayreuth Baroque in the splendour of the 18th-century theatre
Handel: Flavio - Rémy Brès-Feuillet (in bath), Yuriy Mynenko - Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival (Photo: Clemens Manser)Handel: Flavio; Julia Lezhneva, Max Emanuel Cencic, Monika Jägerová, Yuriy Mynenko, Rémy Brès Feuillet, director: Max Emanuel Cencic, Concerto Köln, conductor Benjamin Bayl; Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival at the Margravial Opera House, BayreuthReviewed 9 September 2023An undeserved Handel rarity in a lavish production highlighting the historical background and managing to combine comic and serious Having revived a real rarity in Vinci's Alessandro nell'Indie in 2022 [see my review], the 2023 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival opened with, if not a rarity, a work from the Handelian fringes. Handel wrote Flavio for the end of the 1722/23 season, a season that had included the premiere of Handel's Ottone and the sensational London debut of soprano Francesca Cuzzoni. Flavio, which starred Cuzzoni alongside castrato Senesino, received eight performances, and was revived by Handel in 1732. Then it […]
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