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2022-07-30 07:28:00
Little Women & after: I chat to composer Mark Adamo about the UK premiere of his opera & more
Mark Adamo: Little Women - Kitty Whately as Meg, Elizabeth Karani as Amy, Charlotte Badham as Jo and Harriet Eyley as Beth in Little Women - Opera Holland Park, 2022 (Photo: Ali Wright)Mark Adamo's opera Little Women (his first opera) debuted at Houston Grand Opera in 1998 and went on to have major success both in the USA and internationally. The opera has not, until now, received any performances in the UK (though there have been some near misses). The work received its first UK performance on 22 July 2022 at Opera Holland Park, conducted by Sian Edwards and directed by Ella Marchment [see my review, and my interview with Ella]. A few days before the performance, I was lucky enough to be able to chat to Mark Adamo about Little Women and how he views the opera almost 25 years since its creation, as well as chatting about more recent projects […]
2022-07-23 10:36:00
More than just sisterhood: Mark Adamo's Little Women finally gets its UK premiere in Ella Marchment's imaginative production at Opera Holland Park
Mark Adamo: Little Women - Opera Holland Park (Photo Ali Wright)Mark Adamo: Little Women; Charlotte Badham, Kitty Whately, Harriet Eyley, Elizabeth Karani, Frederick Jones, Harry Thatcher, Benson Wilson, Lucy Schaufer, Victoria Simmonds, Nicolas Garrett, director Ella Marchment, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Sian Edwards; Opera Holland ParkReviewed 23 July 2022 (★★★★½)Adamo's imaginatively engaging opera finally gets its premiere in a sophisticated and appealing production with a superbly balanced quartet of sisters at its heartMark Adamo's opera Little Women has had some 135 different productions world wide since its debut at Houston Grand Opera in 1998, and finally it came the UK, courtesy of Opera Holland Park. Last night (22 July 2022), Sian Edwards conducted the City of London Sinfonia at Opera Holland Park in Ella Marchment's new production of Mark Adamo's Little Women. Charlotte Badham was Jo, with Kitty Whately, Harriet Eyley and Elizabeth Karani as her sisters Beg, Beth and Amy, Frederick […]
2022-04-16 09:20:18
From the Shenandoah Valley to Kensington Gardens: I chat to Ella Marchment about her new role at Shenandoah Conservatory & directing the UK premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women
[…] operas from around 1920s thanks to a policy by then government, Korenizatiya, to commission Ukrainian composers to write operas on national subjects. Ella Marchment The New World of Opera: Germaine Tailleferre's four comic operas from Du style galant au style méchant at Shenandoah Conservatory of Music, 22-24 April 2022Director Ella Marchment, Music director Jan Wagner - further details from Conservatory websiteMark Adamo: Little Women - Charlotte Badham, Kitty Whately, Harriet Eyley, Elizabeth Karani, director Ella Marchment, conductor Sian Edwards - Opera Holland Park (22 July -4 August ) - further details from their website Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog Virtuoso voices: Hilary Cronin and Hugh Cutting in motets […]
2022-01-28 13:02:30
[…] rather problematic work. In the pit, conductor Lee Reynolds makes his company debut. Composer Mark Adamo's opera Little Women debuted in 1998 and has proved highly popular in America. Rather remarkably, Opera Holland Park's performance will be the work's UK premiere. Ella Marchment [who directed my opera The Genesis of Frankenstein with Helios Opera in 2016, see the video] makes her company debut with a cast including an array of strong women, Charlotte Badham, Kitty Whately, Harriet Eyley, Elizabeth Karani and Lucy Schaufer, plus Harry Thatcher and Benson Wilson. The double bill of two Verismo shockers will intrigue, pairing Delius' rarely performed Margot le Rouge with Puccini's Le Villi. Martin Lloyd Evans directs and Francesco Cillufo directs with strong casts including Anne Sophie Duprels (as both heroines), Samuel Sakker, Peter Auty, Stephen Gadd, Paul Carey Jones, plus Laura Woods, George von Bergen and Laura Lolita Perešivana. The final production is another co-production with Charles […]
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