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2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] and fulfilling life not just as an organist but also as an improviser and composer as well. Tickets £5. And being a celebrated exponent of the organ music of the 20th-century French tradition, Mr Briggs will also perform a programme of French organ works on the same day at 8pm. Tickets £12. Seating unreserved. And a further event in the Weston Room (Friday, 12 July, 3pm, tickets £5) offers a talk on Organ Reborn! by Andrew Scott, managing director of Harrison & Harrison Organs, who undertook the 2023 rebuild of the organ and Canon Nicholas Thistlewaite, who acted as the independent advisor to the Dean and Chapter. They’ll give a ‘behind-the-scenes’ talk and presentation about this ambitious project which has ensured that the music of Norwich Cathedral’s organ will be enjoyed by future generations. Tickets £6. Norwich Cathedral on air! Choral Evensong (Wednesday, 10 July, 3pm) will be broadcast ‘live’ on BBC […]
2024-03-20 17:55:33
The narrative twisted and mesmerised at this London gig, as indigenous rhythms were mixed with the blues
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2024-02-29 22:25:01
Visiting Aucoin’s Underworld
[…] the book that she wrote on the subject. Do you as the father interact with anyone other than Eurydice? There is an ensemble in Act 2 where I sing along with the two Orpheus characters (me in the underworld and them in the upperworld), but other than Eurydice it’s only the three singing stones that I interact with on stage. [caption id="attachment_57768" align="alignright" width="420"] Eurydice (Sydney Mancasola) and Father (Mark S. Doss, ) Nile Scott Studios photo)[/caption] Are you alive or dead? Actually I’m dead. Basically, I’m talking to Eurydice from the underworld. She’s about to get married to Orfeo. And so he starts out very prominently writing a letter to her. There’s sort of a mail system in the underworld. Hades, being the boss, uses the father’s letters to Eurydice as a tool to win her over. “So I have a letter from your father,” Hades sings. […]
2024-02-26 09:11:00
Beyond coloratura: Strong performances and a serious approach in Chelsea Opera Group's account of Léo Delibes' Lakmé
Poster for the première of Léo Delibes' Lakmé Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Haegee Lee, Elgan Llŷr Thomas, James Platt, Julien Van Mellaerts, Lorena Paz Nieto, Caroline Carragher, Sarah Pring, Polly Leech, Magnus Walker, Chelsea Opera Group, Matthew Scott Rogers; Cadogan HallReviewed 25 February 2024Strong performances and a serious approach to the music ensure that the pleasures of this performance of Delibes' rarity extended well beyond coloratura delightsLéo Delibes' Lakmé received a rare London outing when Matthew Scott Rogers conducted Chelsea Opera Group in the work on Sunday 25 February 2024 at Cadogan Hall with Haegee Lee as Lakmé, Elgan Llŷr Thomas as Gérald, James Platt as Nilakantha, Julien Van Mellaerts as Frédéric, Lorena Paz Nieto as Miss Ellen, Sarah Pring as Mistress Bentson, Caroline Carragher as Miss Rose and Polly Leech as Mallika.The very full Cadogan Hall suggested that audiences are keener on this type of rarity than companies sometimes give them credit for and that […]
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