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2024-03-15 09:42:00
Almost an expressionist nightmare: Janáček's Jenůfa at ENO with Jennifer Davis in the title role
[…] brought vivid tone and irrepressible enthusiasm to Jano. Darren Jeffery was the mill foreman, frequently an observer to the action in Act One, creating a feeling of his underlying contempt for his employers. Freddie Tong made self-regarding and rather unpleasant Mayor, with Madeleine Shaw channelling Hyacinth Bucket as his wife. Isabelle Peters sang and danced engagingly as Barena. Segomotso Masego Shupinyaneng was all self-regarding charm and simpering as their daughter, Karolka. Morag Boyle and Claire Pendleton completed the cast with brilliant cameos as a neighbour and a villager.The chorus was on terrific form (belying the alarums and excursions that have been going on behind the scenes), not only singing up a storm but creating a whole world of vivid and disturbing characters. Everything in Act One seemed to have a threat of violence, to be a whisker away from real danger and then in Act Three the chorus' entry through […]
2021-03-02 16:54:12
Winter into Spring: Oxford Lieder Festival's Spring weekend concludes
[…] we had James Platt (bass) and Lada Valesova (piano) in Shostakovich's Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin, Op.46, and RVW's Songs of Travel plus Silent Noon. Then in the evening, one of the festival's young artists, baritone James Atkinson did a group of Schubert songs accompanied by Iain Burnside, then soprano Ailish Tynan joined Burnside for further Schubert followed by songs with Irish connections by Herbert Hughes, Thomas Dunhill, Frank Bridge, James Joyce (arr. Edmund Pendleton) and Charles Villiers Stanford. The evening ended with Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen with clarinettist Julian Bliss. I understand that James Platt and Lada Valesova's recital was arranged at very short notice. You couldn't tell. They started with Shostakovich's Pushkin settings which Platt recorded in 2018 with Sir Mark Elder and the Halle (well worth catching with a terrific pairing of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5). The songs were ostensibly written […]
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2020-05-01 14:04:23
Steppenwolf Announces New Online Productions As It Cancels Stage Plays Until October
The offerings, open only to subscribers, include a “virtual reading” of a new adaptation of Chekhov’s Seagull (available May 14-27); a radio-play version of Arthur Miller’s The American Clock, directed by Austin Pendleton and featuring John Malkovich, Joan Allen, and Laurie Metcalf (June); and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s In the Red and Brown Water, directed by […]
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