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German singer, opera singer and stage actor
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2023-07-23 08:07:00
No one thought there was a market for the Beatles
[…] Menuhin, Riccardo Muti, Sir Adrian Boult and many other great musicians, and I am delighted to welcome him to the Overgrown Path today. Welcome Christopher, and can you start by telling us how you first met David Munrow? CB: It was rather strange, it wasn't as obvious or direct as you might think. I used to conduct a madrigal group. We'd done lots of different broadcasts of straightforward madrigals, and the producer Basil Lam said to me it would be very interesting to try doing some madrigals with instruments, and I thought oh... He suggested viols and other stringed instruments, and also recorders. And I thought "oh no" - I used to be a school master, and the word recorder has a horrifying significance for me. So I asked "must we?", and Basil Lam said there is this young man called David Munrow who is an incredibly […]
2022-06-16 08:00:27
Rising to the challenge: the Young Artists of the National Opera Studio in Sondheim: Before & After
[…] Berg's Wozzeck, giving us a fully rounded character with Josef Ahn as a strong Wozzeck. Act 1, Scene 4 of Jake Heggie's Graham Green-inspired 2004 opera The End of the Affair, featured Josef Ahn and Alexandra Chernenko as the lovers, moving from jazz-inspired music to something more developed, yet always with approachable lyricism. Missy Mazzoli's 2013 micro-opera A Flourish of Green is based on Boccaccio's Decameron (best known from Keats' version as Isabella, or the Pot of Basil). Inna Husieva and Philip Clieve played the lovers combining Mazzoli's quite dark sound world with a nice element of wit. Act 1, Scene 7 of Nico Muhy's 2017 opera Marnie was harder to bring off, plunging us mid-plot but Logan Lopez Gonzalez and Laura Lolita Peresivana as Terry and Laura managed to make the mind games rather disturbing. The opening scene of Jeanine Tesori's 2011 one-act opera A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck was wonderfully inventive, against a […]
2022-05-03 07:13:40
Northern Chords Festival 2022
St James’ and St Basil’s Church The 2022 Northern Chords Festival will be taking place at St James’ and St Basil’s Church, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 9XP, over the weekend of 14 and 15 May 2022. Founded in 2009 by cellist and conductor Jonathan Bloxham, this year's festival features young artists from the festival's inaugural Mentorship Scheme as well as the Northern Chords Festival Orchestra. The festival opens with a gala concert celebrating the festival's Mentorship Scheme. Jonathan Bloxham presents an evening with this year's mentees, Jacob Bettinelli (bass-baritone), Kryštof Kohout (violin), Harvey Lin (piano), Lucy Walker (composer), including a new work by Lucy Walker written for the other mentees. Saturday sees mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones (winner of the Audience Prize at the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2021) and tenor Ben Johnson (one of the festival's mentors for 2022 and winner of the Cardiff Audience Prize in 2013) joining forces […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2022-02-17 17:41:25
Ballet dancer who brought grace and style to Frederick Ashton’s famous 1946 masterpiece Symphonic VariationsHenry Danton, who has died aged 102, was the last survivor of the six dancers who created Frederick Ashton’s ballet masterpiece Symphonic Variations in 1946. This was Ashton’s first creation for the stage of the Royal Opera House. He filled the work with a flow of movement, challenging his dancers’ stamina and drawing on their individual skills. Danton’s interest in ballet was aroused by seeing Léonide Massine’s Jardin Public performed by Wassily de Basil’s Ballet Russe at Covent Garden in the 1930s, and particularly by the idea of a statue coming to life, but he did not start training in ballet until he was 21.
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