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2024-04-05 08:55:00
West Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season
[…] from The Sixteen, was the previous artistic director]. Tom thinks that this new role is interesting both for him and for the company, as he brings a singers point of view to the artistic directorship having sung as a principal both in the UK and abroad. He is aware of the singers' point of view.He is currently involved in planning the 2025 season which will have a Shakespeare theme with productions of Verdi's Macbeth, Cole Porter's Kiss me Kate and Bellini's Capuletti e Montecchi. Tom points out that whilst there are plenty of opportunities still for UK-based singers with lyric voices, those with fuller voices can miss out so he feels that offering opportunities for Verdi's Macbeth is important.Our discussion returns to the importance of supporting singers, and his new role at West Green has given Tom a chance to step back and look at the industry. Life is difficult for a […]
2024-03-11 07:32:00
Something astonishing: Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice for Welsh National Opera involved a collaboration with circus arts, NoFit State
[…] Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice, presented by Welsh National Opera at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (seen 9 March 2024), and then on tour, WNO collaborated with circus arts company NoFit State, so that Tadzio and his family were all played by circus artists. Mark Le Brocq was Aschenbach, with Roderick Williams in the baritone roles, Alexander Chance as Apollo, Gareth Brynmor John as the English Clerk, and Peter Van Hulle as the Hotel Porter. The circus artists were Antony César as Tadzio, Diana Salles as the Polish Mother, Vilhelmiina Sinervo and Selma Hellmann as the daughters, and Riccardo Saggese as the Governess and Jaschiu. The remaining roles were taken by two WNO Associate Artists and 19 members of WNO Chorus. The designer was Nicola Turner, the lighting designer was Robbie Butler, and the video designer was Sam Sharples. The circus consultant was Tom Rack, and the circus designer and director […]
2024-02-04 05:00:51
Inspired by Moroccan rhythms and first sung by Fred Astaire, the track became a fixture in the Great American Songbook
2023-12-30 11:00:42
On this day in 1948 Cole Porter‘s Kiss Me Kate opened on Broadway
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