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2024-03-25 23:45:00
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18, 19, 21, and 24 March 2024
[…] is led – at least I was – to consider the relationship between politics and the natural sciences: in many respects, at least since the Enlightenment onwards, a key question of political and indeed other philosophy. Hegel, notably, is the trickiest figure here, at least for those who, like Charles Taylor, find his ontology impossible to accept; but he is arguably all the more important for that. Whatever else one might say, for instance, of Marx and Engels – to name perhaps the two most important political philosophers of Wagner’s generations – they were anything but vulgar materialists. Dialectical materialism: the clue is in the name. In the following generation, Nietzsche is an equally tricky case, arguably more ambiguous (take his interest, often overlooked, in eighteenth-century materialism) than self-styled Nieztscheans. Such thinkers, and others, inform our response to this world of observation, surveillance, and experimental psychology, in which the first […]
2024-03-02 09:03:00
Shamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change
[…] work like Shamus O'Brien has no recording.This is all going to change as Retrospect Opera is releasing the first studio recording of Stanford's Shamus O'Brien with David Parry conducting the Orchestra of Scottish Opera plus soloists Brendan Collins, Anna Brady, Gemma Ni Bhriain, Ami Hewitt, Joseph Doody, Andrew Gavin and Rory Dunne with Irish piper Jarlath Henderson.I recently caught up by Zoom with conductor David Parry who was in Scotland amid performances of Jonathan Dove's new opera, Marx in London, a work which David refers to as fantastic. It has been something of a hit, too, with audiences with Scottish Opera selling out the Theatre Royal in Glasgow.Whilst Shamus O'Brien was popular in its time, David thinks that its very Irishness has mitigated against more recent performances in the complicated post-war political climate. Born in Dublin, Stanford was Anglo-Irish and the opera has a libretto by the Irish writer George H. Jessop […]
2024-02-14 17:14:17
Jonathan Dove’s entertaining score has brilliant leads but less brilliant words
2024-02-14 13:02:26
Theatre Royal, GlasgowA magnificent cast led by Roland Wood and Stephen Barlow’s vivid staging ensure that Scottish Opera’s production of Jonathan Dove’s rumbustious farce is both cogent and wittyHaving invested in the
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