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2023-12-25 04:30:00
Our Favorite Christmas Recordings (CD Reviews)
[…] as arranged by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn; played by the Harmonie Ensemble of New York, conducted by Steve Richmond. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907493. Seventeen tracks of syncopated enjoyment. Ellington and Strayhorn work their magic in (re)arranging the originals into a jazzy suite, here played by an excellent big band. (Alas, it appears that the Harmonie Ensemble is now defunct.) Just the thing to cap the holidays and send us off in rousing style! Bryan Geyer's Christmas FavoritesI'm unable to pick any particular recording, but these two modern era Christmas songs have always seemed more significant than the rest: "The Christmas Song" became a Nat King Cole classic and any of his various recordings would be appropriate."Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" was subject to excessive revision, generally applied to "jolly up" the basic WWII thematic setting. I personally prefer the original, or versions close to it—maybe because I clearly remember those WWII days—but it's […]
2023-10-18 08:36:00
Leo Geyer, artistic director of Constella Music Leo Geyer's Constella Music is celebrating its tenth anniversary with an event at Sadler's Wells Theatre on Monday 27 November 2023. The interdisciplinary music company, formally known as Constella OperaBallet, celebrates a decade of daring and visually striking work. The company's new name, Constella Music, reflects its ever-growing repertoire encompassing the broad creative endeavours of its artistic director, composer and conductor Leo Geyer.The celebration at Sadler's Wells features world premieres including London Portraits, Leo Geyer's opera-ballet, choreographed by Taira Foo, which fuses jazz and street dance. Geyer’s Water Boatman for double-bass and loop pedal, commissioned by the Musician’s Company, will have its first public performance, having been featured on the BBC, and will be performed by Toby Hughes. The Constella Orchestra will perform excerpts from a new opera-ballet, the Orchestras of Auschwitz - featuring music written in concentration camps - will also be performed for the […]
2022-06-12 14:41:00
Dido and Aeneas and Bluebeard's Castle, Oper Frankfurt, 5 June 2022
Frankfurt Opera HouseDido – Cecelia Hall Aeneas – Sebastian Geyer Belinda – Kateryna Kasper Second Woman – Karolina Bengtsson Sorceress – Dmitry Egorov First Witch – Elizabeth Reiter Second Witch – Karolina Makuła Spirit, Sailor – Carlos Andrés CárdenasBluebeard – Nicholas Brownlee Judith – Claudia Mahnke Prologue (on tape) – Benedek SalgoBarrie Kosky (director)Alan Barnes (revival director)Katrin Lea Tag (designs)Joachim Klein (lighting)Zsolt Horpácsy (dramaturgy)Frankfurt Opera Chorus (chorus director: Tilman Michael)Frankfurt Opern- und MuseumsorchesterBenjamin Reiners (conductor)First Witch (Elizabeth Reiter), Sorceress (Dmitry Egorov), Second Witch (Karolina Makula)Images: Barbara Aumüller The operatic double-bill presents problems and opportunities—like any staged event, one might say, though there are of course specific cases for each genre, even vis-à-vis spoken theatre. First, at least in most instances, comes the question of what to programme together, that is assuming one has rejected the obvious solution of leaving a shortish one-act opera on its own. Practices change: we now rarely programme […]
2022-05-18 08:07:39
The Ring Returns: Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn Festival celebrates opera from Monteverdi through to contemporary with some zarzuela thrown in
[…] whilst Opera at Home are pairing Walton's The Bear with Daniel Felsenfeld's I decided... New opera and work in progress includes John Michael Maloney's Sin the Musical from Dmii Productions, Kristina Arakelyan's Penelope (Work in Progress), What More? Production's mixture of Japanese and British Sign Language of Deaf performers in Sumida River and Red Gray & Sarah Nicholls' The Unravelling Fantasia of Miss H. which explores the Victorian mental health system. Classic operas in the season include Bizet's Carmen in Leo Geyer's bold re-imagining for Baseless Fabric Theatre, Mozart's The Magic Flute in Lindsay Bramley's version for Opera Alegria, Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore in a radical rethink from Emma Jude Harris, Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle from environmentally sustainable opera company Green Opera. The Grimeborn Festival runs from 26 July to 10 September at the Arcola Theatre and the Hackney Empire. Full details from the Arcola Theatre website.
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