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2024-04-25
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2024-02-14 08:35:00
Lente Verelst and Hull Urban Opera invite you to The End of the World Party
The young Belgian composer Lente Verelst came to attention with her opera, Crocodile, which took ideas from Samuel Beckett and turned them into a short animated film produced by Hull Urban Opera. Originally shown on Sky Arts, the piece is available from Now TV. Now Verelst is back with Hull Urban Opera with her first full length opera, The End of the World Party with a libretto by Russell Plows, artistic director of Hull Urban Opera.Running from 18 to 20 April 2024 at Princes Quay Event Space in Hull, the production is directed by Plows, conducted by Anita Datta and features soprano Madeline Robinson, mezzo Joanna Gamble, countertenor Ralph Thomas Williams, tenor Michael Jones and bass-baritone Neil Balfour. It promises to be an intriguing, interactive piece; playing out in real time, and including local people as performers and storytellers, the opera uses tasks, audience-choice and a “mystery” narrative to explore how we behave under […]
2023-08-24 06:45:00
The Bayreuth Festival is thrust into a new age, the digital age, by the application of Augmented Reality in a ground-breaking new production of Wagner's Parsifal
Wagner: Parsifal - Georg Zeppenfeld - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Wagner: Parsifal; Ekaterina Gubanova, Tobias Kehrer, Andreas Schager, Jordan Shanahan, Derek Welton, Georg Zeppenfeld; dir: Jay Scheib; cond: Pablo Heras-Casado; Bayreuth FestivalReviewed by Tony Cooper, 23 August 2023Through my 3D glasses I found myself wrapped up and entwined in an abundance of floating objects that seemingly one could touch! The 2023 season at the Bayreuth Festival opened with a ground-breaking new production of Parsifal directed by 53-year-old Jay Scheib, an American of international standing in the hi-tech world and a technological wizard like no other! A couple of his credits include Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face (New York City Opera) and the Jim Steinman/Meat Loaf musical, Bat Out of Hell (Capitol Theatre, Düsseldorf). The production also feature conductor Pablo Heras-Casado's debut at the festival.Wagner: Parsifal - Andreas Schager, Elina Garanca - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico […]
2022-07-27 22:05:59
2022-06-12 15:51:07
Glyndebourne, SussexFloris Visser’s new production puts a dark spin on this story of doomed lovers – which only heightens the life-affirming vibrancy of the music ‘We’ll part when the flowers appear,” sing Mimì and Rodolfo at the end of act three, putting off the break-up they have now accepted as inevitable. There’s nothing in Puccini’s music to dampen the audience’s fond hope that they’ll work things out in the meantime and live happily ever after. But in Floris Visser’s new La Bohème, there is a chill to these words – because the flowers are already appearing, sickly pink against the monochrome set, uncovered by the tall, gaunt figure who has been shadowing consumptive Mimì since before she stepped into Rodolfo’s life. Death is not in Puccini’s cast list. But in Visser’s production, which plays on any number of film references from The Seventh Seal to Meet Joe Black, he […]
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