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Italian opera composer (1797–1848)
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2024-04-05 08:55:00
West Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season
Thomas Elwin as Lensky in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at West Green House Opera in 2021(Photo: Matthew Williams-Ellis)West Green House Opera returns this Summer for its fourth season in the magical theatre on the lake. Running from 19 to 28 July 2024 the season features Verdi's Falstaff, Rossini's Il barbiere di Sivigla and Puccini's Suor Angelica. As ever, one of the non-musical attractions of the festival is the setting, with Marylyn Abbott's gardens form both a spectacular operatic backdrop and a source of pre-opera delight.The opera company also has a new artistic director, Tom Elwin. Best known as a tenor, he was Lensky in West Green's 2021 production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin [see review on OperaToday] and his roles last year included Gennaro in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia with English Touring Opera [see my review], Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme also with ETO and Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore with Wild Arts [see my review].For Tom, one of […]
2024-04-01 04:00:00
Jean-Nicolas Savory The Stradivarius of the Bassoon (Lyndon Watts, Edoardo Torbianelli, Marion Treupel-Franck
Giuseppe Tamplini (1817-1888) Fantasia Bravura for Bassoon & Piano on themes from Donizetti's "La fille du Regiment" Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Trio for Flute, Bassoon & Piano in G, WoO 37Antonin Reicha (1770-1836) Duo for Bassoon & Piano in B-flat majorLyndon Watts, Bassoon; Marion Treupel-Franck, FluteEdoardo Torbianelli-Fortepiano(Period Instruments) Pan Classics PC 10306 (2014)[Flac & Scans]
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 […]
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