Gladys Ripley News
British opera singer
- contralto
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
- opera singer, singer
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2022-05-25
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2022-04-01 04:39:00
Mozert: Avatus, A Musical Opera (Blur-ray review)
[…] Terminatoricus, Titanicus, and Aliens in the Atticus, but this time he has outdone himself with a musical opera so natural, so lifelike, so genuine, you’d think he used real people to perform it. Avatus: A Musical Opera (music by J.C. Mozert; lyrics by Mahatma Kane Jeeves; words by W. C. Dukenfield) stars counter-soprano Leonardo Di Capricorn as Jake Dawson; basso-profundo Kate Winstone as Rose Butler; alto-sexist Clarke Gable as Rhett Butler; mezzo-neen Sigorney Weaving as Robert Ripley; renowned hopscotch authority and part-time hockey puck Morgan Freeperson as The Great Mandala; and the incomparable Mac Demon as Francois “Sparkling” Perrier. Lt. Sir Cedric Noel Vivian Barnstable III and his Band That Plays for Fun support the singers with a deferentially recalcitrant opprobrium.The music explores one man’s vision to bring to the masses of a dying planet, Avatus, the rugged indoor sports event known as Mallet-Style Quidditch (or MS Quidditch), a variation on […]
2021-03-02 07:36:30
30 aspiring young composers to receive mentoring and support: the ORA Singers Composer Competition results
ORA Singers launched its Composer Competition in 2018, specifically aimed at the UK state-school sector, where many students have limited access to specialist composition mentoring. The winners of the 2021 competition have just been announced and on top of the ten finalists, twenty further apprentices have been named. From a wide pool of entries from across the UK, the ORA Singers has now selected the 10 finalists who will be enrolled onto a special scheme of mentoring with composers Ken Burton, Janet Wheeler, Richard Allain, Kim Porter and Harry Escott. The finalists are announced as:Pip Alpin 18, Warton (Ripley St Thomas CofE Academy)Ceri Amison 17, Newbury (St Bartholomew’s School)Raj Bhaumik 17, Milngavie (Douglas Academy)Jacob Cooper 16, Carnforth (Queen Elizabeth School)Hannah Doyle 17, Blackpool (Blackpool Sixth Form College)Ana Geoghegan 18, Wimbledon (Ursuline High School)Aidan MacLean 17, Lisburn (Friends’ School) Samuel Cole Mpengo 18, West Ham (School 21 and 621)Samuel Oliver-Sherry 16, Netherton […]
2021-01-10 15:30:00
Highsmith – author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, not to mention The Price of Salt (renamed Carol to go along with the movie) – had a dark, dark well of self-hate that affected most of her fiction. And yet: “It feels good to be hunted. If you read the genres […]
