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2024-04-05 08:55:00
West Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season
[…] my review], Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme also with ETO and Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore with Wild Arts [see my review].For Tom, one of the important features of the festival is having a thread of loyalty to their artists running through. At a time when UK-based singers are able to work less at companies like ENO and WNO, Tom feels it is important to offer opportunities to singers. This continuity of support brings benefits to both; Jenny Stafford, who sings the title role in Puccini's Suor Angelica this year was Tatyana in Eugene Onegin in 2021 and Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci last year [see my review]Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore - Dulcamara (Richard Walshe) makes his entry - West Green House Opera 2022This year will be just the fourth time the company has performed on the lake-side stage. The decision to have the stage on the island in the middle of the garden's lake was very much […]
2024-03-06 07:55:00
In case you missed it: our latest newsletter, February on Planet Hugill, has just gone out
My newsletter, February on Planet Hugill, has just gone out, a month that took us from Delibes' Lakmé to Wagner's Siegfried to some terrific new music. Stephen McNeff's opera A Star Next to the Moon premiered and Stephen also talked to us about the genesis of the work, there was also Gavin Higgin's terrific new Horn Concerto, not to mention music by Helen Grime and Freya Waley-Cohen, not forgetting ENO's revival of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale. Transgender tenor Holden Madagame talked to us about their journey towards singing Mime in Siegfried, and interviews included film composer Eímear Noone, soprano Jenny Stafford on performing Puccini's Manon Lescaut to open English Touring Opera's Spring season, Polish-born, Australian composer Paul Kopetz on his latest disc and composer Jacques Cohen on his Charles Dickens-inspired monodrama, The Lady of Satis House.You can read the latest issue on MadMimi.If you don't already receive it, then sign up here.
2024-02-16 08:09:00
As Puccini's Manon Lescaut opens English Touring Opera's Spring tour, I chat to soprano Jenny Stafford who sings the title role in Jude Christian's new production
Photo by soprano Julia Mariko before the sitzprobe for ETO's production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut via TwitterEnglish Touring Opera's Spring 2024 season opens at the Hackney Empire on 24 February 2024 with Puccini's Manon Lescaut, followed by Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress on 2 March, and the tour continues across England until 28 May. The tour also features a new family opera by Omar Shahryar and Hannah Khalil, The Great Stink.The new production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut is directed by Jude Christian (who directed Tom Coult's debut opera Violet at Aldeburgh Festival in 2022) and conducted by Gerry Cornelius, with Jenny Stafford as Manon, Gareth Dafydd Morris as Des Grieux and Aidan Edwards at Lescaut. I recently caught up with Jenny Stafford in a gap in rehearsals to chat about Manon and Puccini.When we chat, Jenny has been in rehearsals for just over two weeks and feels that they are 'whizzing through it', something she appreciates. Working through […]
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2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] performance in America at Niblo’s “Opera-House” It would be difficult to attempt a description of the condition of musical affairs in America at that period, which would be intelligible to one who knows only the standard of the present. Very few celebrated virtuosi, either singers or instrumentalists, had yet visited the “States.” Even the opera was almost a novelty, although at this very period, Madame Laborde, with a meager troupe, was performing in New York. Jenny Lind, who occasioned the earliest general furore in regard to music, did not arrive until nearly three years later. There was not even a decent opera-house in America. Dingy theaters and barren public halls were the sole provision made for accommodating public gatherings. The condition of orchestral music was even still lower than vocal. Twenty-three years earlier, when that greatest of all music teachers, Manual Garcia, with his young daughter, afterward Malibran, the greatest […]
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