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2024-01-30 09:23:00
The one and the other: NI Opera in new production of The Juniper Tree written jointly by Philip Glass and Robert Moran
In 1985, Philip Glass collaborated with fellow composer Robert Moran on The Juniper Tree, a chamber opera based on a tale by Brothers Grimm. The two composers collaborated almost equally, alternating scenes and sharing the responsibility for writing the transitions. The result is an intriguing hybrid, which comes after Glass' great trilogy of early operas (Einstein on the Beach, Satygraha, and Akhnaten) yet before better known chamber operas Northern Ireland Opera (NI Opera) is presenting a new production of the opera, directed by Cameron Menzies (NI Opera's artistic director) and conducted by Frasier Hickland in the Grand Theatre, Belfast's Studio Theatre from 21 to 24 February 2024, with a cast drawn from emerging singers who have been working on NI Opera's artist development programme including James Cooper, Mary McCabe, Rachael Heater, Jenny Bourke, Petra Wells, Desmond Havlin, Ryan Gamham, Paul McQuillan and Niamh Lavery. Further details from NI Opera's website.Also as part […]
2024-01-01 11:16:00
A time to look back
[…] with Die Walküre featuring the late Keel Watson as Wotan.In the UK, we were in Manchester to talk to the Manchester Camerata and conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy, and the Stoller Hall, hear the orchestra in Mozart and catch up with the RNCM. And in Leeds we caught Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Puccini's Tosca and La Rondine, and the Masque of Might at Opera North, and caught up with composer Jasdeep Singh Degun.Interviews in 2023 included Cameron Menzies of Northern Ireland Opera, film composer Debbie Wiseman, composer Bushra El-Turk, conductor Francesco Cilluffo, and an 80th birthday interview with Stephen Montague. We chatted to two LGBT singers, Reginald Mobley and Elgan Llyr Thomas, had a bit of a Canadian theme with interviews with composer Margaret Maria, baritone Etienne Dupuis, and conductor Alexander Shelley.Wishing you all a Happy New Year
2023-09-02 08:47:00
Wagner: Tannhäuser - Le Gateau Chocolat - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Welcome to our newsletter August on Planet Hugill, a month which saw the start of the BBC Proms, and the end of the Opera Holland Park season. Our correspondent Tony was in Bayreuth whilst we caught up with IF Opera in Bradford on Avon, and the London Song Festival included a remarkable Granville Bantok premiere. Interviews include Catherine Larsen-Maguire the new music director of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, Cameron Menzies, the artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera and John Wilkie who directed Giordano's Fedora for IF Opera.Read more in our newsletter, August on Planet Hugill, via Mad Mimi. If you don't already subscribe then sign up, http://madmimi.com/signups/21101/join
2023-08-24 06:45:00
The Bayreuth Festival is thrust into a new age, the digital age, by the application of Augmented Reality in a ground-breaking new production of Wagner's Parsifal
[…] reviewLondon, ca.1740: Handel's musicians - wonderfully engaged performances from La Rêveuse as they explore works by the musicians of Handel's orchestra - record reviewStill a classic after all these years: Peter Hall's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Glyndebourne is in strong hands in the latest revival, conducted by Dalia Stasevska - opera reviewTales of Love & Enchantment: exploring the delightful songs of contemporary French composer Isabelle Aboulker at the London Song Festival - concert reviewSmall but fierce: I chat to Cameron Menzies, artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera - opera reviewHome
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