Domenico Mustafà News
Italian composer
- sopranist
- Kingdom of Italy
- singer, composer, choir director, actor, conductor
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2021-05-19 09:07:36
Birthday celebrations indeed: Cecilia McDowall at the BBC, the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, Presteigne and more
Cecilia McDowall Amazingly, Cecilia McDowall is celebrating her 70th birthday this year and not surprisingly her music has been popping up in concerts and services, including recent performances of her anthems in services at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh and at Merton College, Oxford. The BBC Singers, conductor Owain Park, performed her anthem The Lord is Good on Afternoon Concert on BBC Radio 3 on 11 May 2021 (and you can still catch it on-line). But on Saturday 22 May 2021, as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music there is a chance to hear a whole evening of McDowall's fascinating and varied music. At St Pancras Parish Church, Christopher Batchelor conducts the festival’s own professional vocal ensemble, The LFCCM Festival Singers (which expands the Choir of St Pancras Parish Church with additional singers from London’s world-class choral institutions). The programme is all-McDowall, ranging from sacred works […]
2020-06-28 10:17:27
A Life on-Line: Otello in Birmingham, Wagner's villa at Grange Park Opera, and an immersive, genderswapping Midsummer Night's Dream
Verdi: Otello - Keel Watson (Iago) and Ronald Samm (Othello)Birmingham Opera Company, 2009 On Monday, thanks to BBC iPlayer we were able to catch up on an opera production that I always regretted not seeing, Graham Vick's 2009 production of Verdi's Otello for Birmingham Opera Company with Ronald Samm as Otello (the first time a Black tenor had sung the role in the UK), Keel Watson as Iago and Stephanie Corley as Desdemona, conducted by Stephen Barlow. Set in a huge, bare industrial space Vick's production was deliberately immersive with the locally recruited chorus, team of actors and dancers all mingling with the audience. Inevitably you missed something of the visceral, immersive nature of the production. With no decorative period setting, this was a bleak and direct production with intense performances from the principals, raising disturbing questions as to why we do not see […]
2018-12-26 19:01:44
Anglais - L’italiana in Algeri at the Liceu: The Craziest Rossini
[…] managed to bring together. The orchestra started a little blurry, especially the higher strings, but grew in quality throughout the performance. The choir’s entry was rather grey and unbalanced but also improved and ended well. Varduhi Abrahamyan i Giorgio Caoduro (Ⓒ A. Bofill) In terms of the vocal soloists it is worth highlighting that the singers in main three roles were debuting at the theatre. The bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni delivered a robust Mustafà despite the lower register ornamenti being a little weighty for him, especially in the beginning, which didn’t quite flow. Tenor Maxim Mironov, on the role of Lindoro, has a small, clear voice with little projection but sings with great style, phrases the melody very well and attacks the higher notes with clarity and without tensing. The debuting trio was completed in the role of Isabella, the title’s italiana, with Varduhi Abrahamyan, a mezzo with […]
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