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Austrian composer (1825-1899)
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A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024 at Howard Assembly RoomComposers & Poets Forum Showcase: A Leeds Songbook; Leeds Lieder Festival at Leeds MinsterReviewed 17 April 2024Young Artists Showcase: Leeds Lieder Festival at Howard Assembly RoomReviewed 19 April 2024First a programme of specially written new song and then a chance to shine in their chosen repertoire, and for us to experience some fine young voices and performers really stretching themselves.Leeds Lieder Festival certainly keeps its Young Artists busy. They arrived in Leeds on Sunday not only have they been taking part in masterclasses and a final showcase performance at Opera North's Howard Assembly Room on 19 April 2024 when each duo performed their own selection of songs, but on 17 April 2024 at Leeds Minster they presented this year's instalment of A Leeds Songbook.The Composers & Poets Forum Showcase at Leeds Minster on 17 April featured ten new songs by student composers collaborating […]
2024-04-13 13:00:48
Die Fledermaus
Celebrating 150 years of Strauss‘s opera with a 1986 performance featuring Kiri Te Kanawa, Håkan Hagegård, Judith Blegen, Tatiana Troyanos, David Rendall, and Michael Devlin conducted by Jeffrey Tate The post appeared first on parterre box.
2024-04-04 15:00:43
12 Ensemble(Platoon)The superb string ensemble have brought together works united by the concept of transformationThe title for the 12 Ensemble’s disc may be taken from
2024-03-28 15:57:00
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Semperoper Dresden, 27 March 2024
Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Miina-Liisa Värelä (Baraks Frau), Komparserie; all images © Semperoper Dresden/Ludwig OlahEmperor – Eric Cutler Empress – Camilla Nylund Nurse – Evelyn Herlitzius Spirit-Messenger – Andreas Bauer Kanabas Barak – Oleksandr Pushniak Dyer’s Wife – Mina-Liisa Värelä Apparition of Youth – Martin Mitterrutzner Voice of the Falcon – Lea-ann Dunbar Voice from Above – Christa Mayer Guardian of the Threshold of the Temple – Nikola Hillebrand The One-Eyed – Rafael Fingerlos The One-Armed – Tilmann Rönnebeck The Hunchback – Tansel Akzeyebek Children’s Voices – Nikola Hillebrand, Sofia Savenko, Lea-ann Dunbar, Stephanie Atanasov, Dominika Škrabalová, Michal Doron Servants – Bryndis Gudjonsdottir, Sofia Savenko, Dominika ŠkrabalováDirector – David BöschSet designs – Patrick BannwartCostumes – Moana StembergerLighting – Fabio AntociVideo – Falko Herold, Patrick BannwartDramaturgy – Johann Casimir EuleChildren’s Chorus (director: Claudia Sebastian-Bertsch) of the Semperoper Dresden Chorus (director: André Kellinghaus) of the Semperoper DresdenSächsische Staatskapelle DresdenChristian Thielemann (conductor) […]
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