Eyvind Solås News
Norwegian musician and actor
- piano
- classical music
- Norway
- musician, actor, television presenter, composer, pianist
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2021-08-02 19:19:00
I've been to two of this year's three operas at West Edge Opera. I can't report on the third because I'm attending its last performance and my report will be worthless to you. But here's what I thought of the first two: Elizabeth Cree, by Kevin Puts to a libretto by Mark Campbell. This was fantastic in every way. I mean, I can't believe every company in the country isn't performing it. It's got a tightly-constructed and often funny libretto and excellent music; it's in English; it seems very singable; it lends itself to a range of stagings. Set in Victorian London, it's about....murder. And yes, it's very funny despite, or because, of that. The entire cast is terrific, with Katherine Pracht as the title character (she is on trial for killing her husband as the opera opens), Keith Phares as John Cree, Samuel Faustine as real-world character Dan […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-03-27 23:28:32
Is This The Worst Piece Of Public Art In The UK?
"Clumsy, aggressive, cheap-looking (despite costing £100,000), it’s the very opposite of a raindrop. Like the worst public art, it’s also the very opposite of art — ungenerous, suggestive only of itself. Who to blame? The artists, Solas Creative, for sure. But also the arrogance of the bureaucrats who commissioned it."
2013-04-01 00:00:12
Al final del día, siempre nos queda dar las gracias por vivir un día más. Haya sol, haya lluvia, has podido disfrutar de lo maravillosa que es la vida y sentir como el sol calienta tus mejillas o la lluvia purifica el alma. A veces nos entristecemos cuando día tras día solo hay un mar de nubes sobre nuestras cabezas. Eso no nos deja ver que en esos días buscamos refugio en los demás, buscando la compañía que deseamos, porque lo necesitas, porque te obligas a guardar tiempo para hacer lo que un día normal no harías. Aquí tan solo sale el sol cuando pierde la timidez. Pero pronto se abruma de tanta expectación y se vuelve a esconder. Así que el sol consigue que lo valoremos más cuando brilla y que ese recuerdo lo retengamos en nuestra memoria para esos días grises. Yo por mi parte sigo llenando ese […]
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