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English composer (1763-1824)
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2023-02-12 11:00:30
On this day in 1958 soprano Gloria Davy made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Aida.
2021-11-22 10:44:27
Truro CathedralAn absorbing new work by Graham Fitkin draws on the life of a Cornish chemist to illuminate the social and political effects of the industrial revolution The Truro-based Three Spires Singers – founded 40 years ago this year by the late conductor Richard Hickox – marked their anniversary with a substantial commission from the Cornish composer Graham Fitkin. It was premiered in Truro Cathedral by the singers and their orchestra, together with the Cornwall Girls’ and Boys’ Choirs, and soloists counter-tenor Rory McCleery and narrator Samuel West, conducted by Christopher Gray. Fitkin was asked for a Cornwall-centred work, and he settled on the Penzance-born chemist
2021-10-19 06:28:35
[…] in life) and consists of songs specifically written by composers who were family (including Helen's father) and friends. The result is a very personal view of 2020. Whilst the Isolation Songbook has been recorded and performed in live-stream, this performance represented the first time that Helen Charlston, Michael Craddock and Alexander Soares have performed the music with an audience live in the room. In the recital there are songs by Owain Park, Richard Barnard, James Davy, Heloise Werner, Kerensa Briggs, Matthew Ward, Elliot Park, Terence Charlston, Andrew Brixey-Williams, Derri Joseph Lewis, Stephen Bick, and Ben Rowarth, moving between duets and solos, with a variety of styles from the intense, the serious right through to Ben Rowarth's brilliant comic scena. The piano sound is somewhat limited, but Alexander Soares brings out the best in the instrument and it clearly meant a lot to Helen Charlston and Michael Craddock to bring such […]
2021-05-20 12:02:00
Royal Opera House Tito – Edgaras MontvidasVitellia – Nicole Chevalier Sesto – Emily D’Angelo Annio – Angela Brower Servilia – Christina Gansch Publio – Joshua Bloom Senators – Jeremy White, George Freeburn Berenice – Fumi Kaneko Conspirators – Amanda Baldwin, Tim Parker-Langston, Nicholas Sharratt Guards – Andrew Carter, Davy Quistin Richard Jones (director) Ultz (designs) Adam Silverman (lighting) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding) Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) Over fifteen months since I had last set foot in an opera house—for Carmen at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden—it felt extraordinary to be back. All else would be secondary. Constant frustrations and persistent fears of the new ‘Johnson variant’ shutting down everything again made for a background of great uncertainty. Comparisons with the crisis of the social order sweeping Europe during the 1780s and 1790s will shed little light, yet all of us this side of […]
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