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2024-03-13 09:06:00
Contemporary music for St Patrick's Day: Belfast-based choir Cappella Caeciliana, musical director Matthew Quinn, makes its London debut
Cappella Caeciliana, musical director Matthew QuinnThe Belfast-based choir Cappella Caeciliana, musical director Matthew Quinn, makes its London debut on Saturday 16 March 2024 presenting a concert of Celtic music at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden on the eve of St Patrick’s Day. Celtic Celebration includes music by Sir James MacMillan and Charles Wood, along with rising stars Seàn Doherty, Eoghan Desmond. Áine Mallon and Anselm McDonnell [read my review of McDonnell's recent disc, Kraina]. The works by Doherty and McDonnell are London premieres, and Quicksilver by choir member Anita Mawhinney is also a London premiere. The programme also includes Philip Stopford's Ave Verum Corpus, composed when he was Director of Music at St Anne’s (Anglican) Cathedral in Belfast as a gift to St Peter’s, the city’s other Cathedral (Catholic), whilst the performance of Dublin-born Charles Villiers Stanford's The Blue Bird commemorates the centenary month of his death.Full details from St Paul's Church's website.
2022-07-11 18:13:00
The Blue Woman, Royal Opera, 6 July 2022
Image:Camilla Greenwell, ROHLinbury Studio TheatreWoman 1 – Elaine Mitchener Woman 2 – Lucy Schaufer Woman 3 – Gweneth Ann RandWoman 4 – Rosie MiddletonCellos – Louise McMonagle, Su-a Lee, Tamaki Sugimoto, Clare O’ConnellPercussionist – Angela Wai-Nok Hui Actor – Eve Ponsonby Voice-over Artist – Eleanor HendersonKatie Mitchell (director)Lizzie Clachan (designs)Emma Doherty (assistant director)James Farncombe (lighting)Grant Gee (video)Ellie Horne (dramaturgy)Matthew Fairclough (sound design)Jessica Cottis (music director)Jamie Man (conductor)What is opera? It may seem self-indulgent to begin by repeating, rehearsing, even reheating that question. It both matters and does not. The Tête a Tête Festival has surely shown London opera-goers that opera can be pretty much anything one wants it to be. And that, I think, is the point here. One may think The Blue Woman as much a theatre piece or even an installation as an opera, but does it matter? In some cases, it might—or at least might be interesting. This […]
2021-08-25 10:34:45
City of Derry International Choir Festival 2021
First held in 2013, the City of Derry International Choir Festival, artistic director Dónal Doherty, returns to live performances with audiences for this year's festival. Running from 20 to 24 October 2021 in venues in and around Derry, the festival has been carefully planned to include a synchronised mix of in-person and virtual events throughout the city as part of an immersive programme of live and digital concerts, performances, workshops, podcasts, and other events. The festival is opened with a concert from local choirs and singers plus members of the Ulster Orchestra performing Bob Chilcott's The Voyage conducted by the composer, plus premiere of A Topography of Love, Part 3 by Brian Irvine and John McIlduff from Belfast creative production company Dumbworld. Other performers at the festival include Tenebrae and the Derry-based choir Codetta which will be giving the premiere of a new work by Eoghan Desmond, whilst the American ensemble Chanticleer will be presenting […]
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