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2024-01-13 17:21:00
Eavesdropping on their dramas: Opera North's 'in the round' production Britten's Albert Herring
Britten: Albert Herring - Claire Pascoe, Dafydd Jones - Opera North (Photo: Tom Arber) Britten: Albert Herring; Judith Howarth, Heather Shipp, Amy Freston, William Dazeley, Paul Nilon, Richard Mosley-Evans, Dominic Sedgwick, Dafydd Jones, Katie Bray, Claire Pascoe, Rosa Sparks Willow Bell, Oliver Mason, director: Giles Havergal/Elaine Tyler-Hall, conductor: Garry Walker; Opera North at the Howard Assembly RoomA wonderfully involving revival of Giles Havergal's intimate, in the round production of Britten's comedy brings out the work's humanityBritten's Albert Herring was written as a relatively portable chamber opera for the English Opera Group. Famously premiered at Glyndebourne in 1947, when John Christie evidently told people he didn't like it, the work has generally been performed in medium to large size theatres. When Giles Havergal directed the work for Opera North in 2013, it was performed not in the Grand Theatre, Leeds, but in the smaller Howard Assembly Room.The production returned to the Howard […]
2022-07-18 16:02:00
Review of Albert Herring at Clonter Opera
Jack Roberts (Mr Upfold), Flora Birkbeck (Florence Pike), Erin Rossington (Lady Billows), Jordan Harding (Mr Gedge), Thomas Stevenson (Supt Budd), Lydia Shariff (Mrs Herring) and Daniel Kringer in Clonter Opera's production of Albert HerringEric Crozier and Benjamin Britten, after Maupassant Clonter Opera Clonter Opera Theatre 14, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 23 July 2022, 2 hours 35 minutes plus supper interval (30 minutes, or 70 minutes in some performances)I love it when an opera company announces Albert Herring. It’s an affectionate send-up of the hypocrisies and absurdities of rural British life, almost like The Archers set to music. Not precisely the same, of course, but you have the figures of the vicar, the police superintendent, the headmistress of the village school, the mayor, the titled lady who lives in the big house and her housekeeper – and the younger generation: lovebirds Sid and Nancy, and a few schoolchildren. Then there’s […]
2021-06-01 00:00:01
Aulis Sallinen: Six Operas and One Chronicle - Okko Kamu & Ulf Soderblom
Aulis Sallinen - The Horseman 'Ratsumies'. Opera in 3 acts (1975) 1.01. - 1.08. Act I. Easter in Novgorod [41'50]1.09. - 1,13 / 2.01. - 2.03. Act II, Law court in Olavinlinna [41'41]2.04. - 2.11. Act III, The Attack [43'05]Antti. The Horseman 'Ratsumies' - Matti Salminen- bass-baritone;Anna. His wife - Taru Valjakka- soprano;Merchant of Novgorod - Eero Erkkila- tenor;Merchant's Wife - Anita Valkki- alto;Judge - Martti Wallen- bass; Woman - Tuula Nieminen- mezzo;Yeoman - Usko Viitanen- baritone; Matti Puikkanan - Heikki Toivanen- bass;Savonlinna Opera Festival Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Ulf Soderblom Finlandia FACD101 [recorded by Finnish Broadcasting Company at the world premiere given in Savonlinna, Finland on 17 July 1975][CD-rip; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans] The Horseman was premiered at the Savonlinna Opera Festival on 17 June 1975 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Olavinlinna castle and is the first of Sallinen's operas. Its libretto is by […]
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2020-12-27 15:00:00
Some British Viewers Did Not Appreciate A Beloved White Character’s Appreciation Of Black Lives Matter
In her Christmas Day sermon, the Vicar of Dibley – on the long-running, eponymous show – took a knee and discussed racism. The character “is shown being filmed by parishioner and farmer Owen Newitt as she tells the audience she has been preoccupied with the ‘horror show’ of the death of George Floyd, who died while […]
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