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2024-03-09 02:49:00
Opera Conductors/Répétiteurs – Jette Parker Artists Programme Applications for opera conductors and répétiteurs to join the Jette Parker Artists Programme for the 2024-26 Seasons, starting in September 2024, are now open. Jette Parker singers, stage directors and music staff are full-time salaried employees with the Royal Opera for 24 months running September through August. Artists […]
2024-02-20 09:27:00
La voix humaine: two different productions bring Poulenc's intimate drama to London
[…] Opera Company is presenting Poulenc's La voix humaine in a double bill with Philip Hagemann's Roman Fever at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music.Green Opera's critically-acclaimed production of Francis Poulenc's La Voix humaine returns for a strictly limited run, 14-16 March 2024 at the newly reconstructed purpose-built King's Head Theatre. New Zealand soprano Katherine McIndoe with Eleanor Burke as director and André Callegaro as music director, these latter two both Jette Parker Young Artists at the Royal Opera House.Green Opera is the first and only environmentally-sustainable opera company; for every £10 donated or ticket purchased, Green Opera plants a tree with Eden Reforestation Projects. So far they have planted over 2,000 trees! The March performances are in support of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance to whom 25% of the box office proceeds will be donated.Full details from the Kings Head Theatre website.Pegasus Opera's double bill features […]
2024-02-06 12:43:12
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-05 16:00:29
[…] associated with various characters. These motifs build sound worlds that are far from the language of Berlioz and Mahler. Rossen incorporates various genres – from minimalism to salsa – in order to amplify these motifs. Spoken conversation has no macro-form, and so the music tries to develop the conversation through sound world rather than formal structure. The choreography can be characterized as contemporary ballet. I would be happy to put you in touch with Emily Parker, our choreographer, who can speak more to the choreography’s style. The story seems quite relatable to students and anyone who has ever pondered her place in the universe…but will the drama be intense enough to rise to the expectations of an opera plot? The Unknowable is not an opera. It is an operatic ballet, which means operatic elements contribute to the story and drama ultimately driven by cathartic choreography. Actors in opera tend to express […]
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