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2024-03-05 09:02:00
A dynamic performance where singers & instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers: Scherzo Ensemble presents a danced version of Haydn's The Creation
A new danced version of Haydn's The Creation is being presented at New Hall Winchester and St John's Smith Square on 6 and 7 April 2024 by Scherzo Ensemble, and we are we are promised a dynamic performance where singers and instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers!Matthew O'Keeffe conducts the Orpheus Sinfonia with soloists Anna Gregg and Sam Harris as Gabriel and Uriel, and Michael Temporal Darell and Caroline Blair as Adam and Eve. The staging is a collaboration with Welsh choreographer Osian Meilir Jones (currently artistic associate of the National Dance Company of Wales), and designer Jennifer GregoryScherzo Ensemble is a professional development platform for emerging singers, best known for managing Longhope Opera in Hampshire where they are performing Donizetti's Don Pasquale on 6 and 7 July 2024, (see the ensemble's website) Further information on Haydn's The Creation from TicketSource (Winchester) and St John's Smith Square's website,
2024-03-04 07:33:00
Musical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progess - Act Three, scene one: the graveyardFrederick Jones, Jerome Knox - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith)Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress: Frederick Jones/Brenton Spiteri, Nazan Fikret, Jerome Knox, Trevor Eliot Bowes, Lauren Young, director: Polly Graham, conductor Jack Sheen; English Touring Opera at Hackney EmpireReviewed 2 March 2024A refreshing lack of preconceived ideas but visually confusing production offset by strong musical performances including Brenton Spiteri taking over the role of Tom with aplomb part way throughEnglish Touring Opera's Spring tour continued with the launch of Polly Graham's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Hackney Empire on 2 March 2024, with Jack Sheen conducting. Frederick Jones was singing Tom Rakewell, but before the performance it was announced that Jones had recently returned after illness, and after the Act One the role was sung from the side of the stage by Brenton Spiteri (who is playing Edmondo […]
2024-02-27 09:57:00
Intense and disturbing, a story without any redemption: Stephen McNeff's new opera A Star Next to the Moon based on Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo
[…] Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo, the opera has had a long journey to fruition as Stephen McNeff discussed in my recent interview with him, but creating a large-scale new opera in two acts with a cast of eleven, chorus and orchestra is no small achievement indeed. Martin Lloyd-Evans directed and Dominic Wheeler conducted with designs by Anna Reid. Jacob Harrison was Pedro Páramo, Holly Brown was Susana, Steven van der Linden was Juan Preciado, plus Emyr Lloyd Jones, Rachel Roper, Joe Chalmers, Shana Moron-Caravel, Vladyslava Ionascu-Yokovenko, Jonah Halton, Yolisa Ngwexana and Ana-Carmen Balestra.Following a death-bed promise to his mother, Juan Preciado (Steven van der Linden) travels to Comala to seek out his father, Pedro Páramo. In Comala, Juan finds people that knew his mother but he comes to realise that the town is populated by ghosts and he becomes more fevered and confused. The story is divided into two halves, for Act […]
2024-02-26 12:13:02
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