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2023-12-04 08:46:00
Merry & Bright - An Evening of Songs and Arias
Soprano Susie Gibbons and pianist Joanna Kacperek are presenting an evening of classic Christmas songs, operatic arias and more at St George's Church, Campden Hill on 13 December 2023. Both performers are graduates of the Royal College of Music and they have performed around London and Ireland together as a duo.Dublin-born soprano Susie Gibbons graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Music with a Master of Performance as a Sussex Scholar, studying with Amanda Roocroft and Andrew Robinson. She has recently been busy in Wexford where she made her debut with Wexford Festival Opera as Suor Osmina and Le Suore Cercatrici in Suor Angelica and joined the Wexford Festival Opera Chorus to sing Marco Tutino's La Ciociara [see my interview with the opera's conductor Francesco Cilluffo]Joanna Kacperek is currently an Oxford Song Young Artist with her Lied-duo partner Clara Barbier Serrano, and she was a finalist at the Royal Over-Seas League […]
2023-08-16 20:54:34
Fated Couples Face the Music at Glimmerglass 2023
REVIEW: of the Glimmerglass 2023 Season, including: Roméo et Juliette, the 1867 opera composed by Charles Gounod, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré adapting Shakespeare; viewed August 4, 2023; Candide, with a musical score by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by an assortment of heavy-hitters; viewed August 5, 2023; and Rinaldo, [...]
2022-10-01 17:52:44
From Barbier's new album threads, which was recorded at The Tank. Video filmed at the Museum of Jurassic Technology.
2022-08-15 08:00:14
Gioachino Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture Context Gioachino Rossini’s highly popular comic opera, The Barber of Seville was premiered on 20th February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. The libretto for the opera was based on Pierre Beaumarchais’s comedy Le Barbier de Séville (1775). Rossini composed some of […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
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