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Italian opera composer (1797–1848)
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2024-03-05 09:02:00
A dynamic performance where singers & instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers: Scherzo Ensemble presents a danced version of Haydn's The Creation
A new danced version of Haydn's The Creation is being presented at New Hall Winchester and St John's Smith Square on 6 and 7 April 2024 by Scherzo Ensemble, and we are we are promised a dynamic performance where singers and instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers!Matthew O'Keeffe conducts the Orpheus Sinfonia with soloists Anna Gregg and Sam Harris as Gabriel and Uriel, and Michael Temporal Darell and Caroline Blair as Adam and Eve. The staging is a collaboration with Welsh choreographer Osian Meilir Jones (currently artistic associate of the National Dance Company of Wales), and designer Jennifer GregoryScherzo Ensemble is a professional development platform for emerging singers, best known for managing Longhope Opera in Hampshire where they are performing Donizetti's Don Pasquale on 6 and 7 July 2024, (see the ensemble's website) Further information on Haydn's The Creation from TicketSource (Winchester) and St John's Smith Square's website,
2024-03-02 09:03:00
Shamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change
[…] repertory. He also adds that when he conducted Maometto II at Garsington they sold out eight performances. David wonders whether a contributory factor in early 19th-century Italian opera going out of fashion was precisely because they did not lend themselves to a naturalistic production style. Modern styles of production suit these early 19th-century Italian operas. Sometimes the plots can be a bit clunky and works suffer in naturalistic production. There are lots of emotional extremes in Donizetti's serious operas, so a more expressionist production works well. When we spoke, David was in the middle of five performances of Jonathan Dove's Marx in London, in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Scottish Opera is not able to take the production to Inverness or Aberdeen because the orchestra (with triple woodwind and lots of percussion) is too large for the theatres there. Coming up on 16 March, he also has a concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic […]
2024-02-23 14:00:50
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Anna Bolena is one of the many works by Donizetti which, after their modern recovery in the second part of the last century, have both never fully left the stage while simultaneously never becoming a repertoire staple Lucia di Lammermoor or L’elisir d’amore.
2024-01-06 09:54:00
At Kings Place this month, Turkish pianist Can Çakmur celebrates the Hamamatsu Competition which he won in 2018, not to mention embarking on his 12-disc Schubert with BIS
[…] complicated and somewhat political history. Essentially, in the 19th century, there was folk music (which was certainly not insular) and court music, which had a greater Arabic influence, whilst both styles were monodic with no harmony. There was, of course, an extended interchange between them, but the instrumentation and sound were different, and court music was intellectually more complex. Western classical music was present in Turkey from the 19th century and influenced court music (composer Gaetano Donizetti's elder brother Giuseppe was Instructor General of the Imperial Ottoman Music at the court of Sultan Mahmud II and lived in Istanbul until his death). From the Republic, the focus of government policy was creating Turkish-style Western classical music based on folk music. As part of this policy, polyphony was seen as being better because it was Western, so Turkish composers in the 20th century were expected to take monodic folk music and create […]
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