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- film director, composer, actor, presenter, television presenter, screenwriter, film producer, clown
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A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024 at Howard Assembly RoomComposers & Poets Forum Showcase: A Leeds Songbook; Leeds Lieder Festival at Leeds MinsterReviewed 17 April 2024Young Artists Showcase: Leeds Lieder Festival at Howard Assembly RoomReviewed 19 April 2024First a programme of specially written new song and then a chance to shine in their chosen repertoire, and for us to experience some fine young voices and performers really stretching themselves.Leeds Lieder Festival certainly keeps its Young Artists busy. They arrived in Leeds on Sunday not only have they been taking part in masterclasses and a final showcase performance at Opera North's Howard Assembly Room on 19 April 2024 when each duo performed their own selection of songs, but on 17 April 2024 at Leeds Minster they presented this year's instalment of A Leeds Songbook.The Composers & Poets Forum Showcase at Leeds Minster on 17 April featured ten new songs by student composers collaborating […]
2022-06-16 14:30:21
Michael Chioldi/Ellie Dehn/Hilary Ginther/Odyssey Opera/Gil Rose(Odyssey Opera, four CDs) Seekers of operatic rarities take note, this three-hour-plus recording is capably sung with grandeur Camille Saint-Saëns composed 13 operas, but only one of them, Samson et Dalila, is now part of the regular repertory. However, during the composer’s lifetime at least, Henry VIII, first seen in Paris in 1883, rivalled Samson’s popularity; there were performances across Europe, and even though it has only been staged a handful of times since Saint-Saëns’s death in 1921, it remains the most often performed of his other operas. The libretto is based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play La Cisma de Inglaterra (The Schism in England), though Saint-Saëns and his librettists also incorporated incidents and characters from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. The action focuses on the English king’s determination to divorce Catherine of Aragon so he could marry Anne Boleyn, and the split with the […]
2021-09-13 13:25:24
Sempere was born in 1990 in Alcoi, Spain, and began his music studies at age 13, attending Spain's Unió Musical d'Alcoi. In 2012, he graduated from the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón (CSMA), where he studied with César Peris, Lorenzo Ferrándiz, and Paco Inglés. That same year, Sergi received a scholarship from the […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-08-12 19:36:27
It's easy to assume that prominent composers' works are all well-known, or at least available in a modern edition. However, this is often not the case, as the Spanish violin professor Manuel Guillén Navarro recently discovered. While researching Spanish violin music as part of his job at the Conservatory of Music of Aragon (CSMA), Guillén Navarro was […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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