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British composer
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia
- composer, conductor, film score composer
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2021-02-14 10:50:14
Sleepwalk into Vienna’s free operas this week
Sonntag, 14. Februar 2021, 19.00 Uhr Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart DON GIOVANNI (Vorstellung vom 1. November 2015) Dramma giocoso in zwei Akten Musikalische Leitung: Adam Fischer Inszenierung: Jean-Louis Martinoty Mit u.a.: Mariusz Kwiecien, Erwin Schrott, Marina Rebeka, Juliane Banse, Benjamin Bruns Montag, 15. Februar 2021, 19.00 Uhr – Ballett Ludwig Minkus (arr. John Lanchbery) DON QUIXOTE […]
2018-11-12 08:04:33
Iconic but flawed: La Bayadère the Royal Ballet
La Bayadère: Kingdom of the Shades scene Artists of The Royal Ballet © 2018 ROH. Photographed by Bill Cooper Petipa/Makarova/Minkus/Lanchbery La Bayadère; Royal Ballet Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 November 2018 Revival of Petipa's Orientalist fantasy with its iconic 'Kingdom of the Shades' sceneBallet is a curious art-form, with few other genres would we accept as standard that what we see is the work of a number of different hands, based on the choreographer's original (just think how art historians obsess over whether a painting is by an artist, attributed or studio, though the process is accept to a limited extent in music, just think Cherubini's Medea). The fact is that until the invention of accurate choreographic notation, productions relied on memory and it was accepted that new generations would change and improve.These thoughts occurred to me as we watched the recent revival of the […]
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Royal Opera House
2016-09-20 11:10:22
Dance highlight: the Clog Dance from La Fille mal gardée
[…] time, but in the 1950s and 60s the British folk revival led to renewed interest. One prominent figure in the revival was an exceptional clog dancer called Pat Tracey , and – according to research by Wilfred Darlington – it may have been her who inspired the Clog Dance in Fille. Tracey died in 2008, but some footage remains of her dancing in 1992: Some time during the creation of Fille, Ashton took John Lanchbery , who was arranging the score, to a folk dance recital at the Royal Albert Hall which probably featured Pat Tracey. ‘Write something funny to fit that’, he said to Lanchbery, who dutifully wrote a number that adopted the gentle tempo and compound-time ‘hornpipe’ style common in such dances, based around a melody from an earlier score for the ballet by Peter Ludwig Hertel. The choreography, likewise, has more than a hint of the […]
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Royal Opera House
2016-04-06 10:58:30
Ballet and Dance 2016/17
Natalia Osipova and Steven McRae in Woolf Works ©2015 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton La Fille mal gardée (27 September–22 October 2016) Choreography: Frederick Ashton Music: Ferdinand Hérold , arranged and orchestrated by John Lanchbery Conductor: Barry Wordsworth Frederick Ashton’s joyful ballet The Wayward Daughter features some of his most brilliant choreography. Anastasia (26 October–12 November 2016) Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan Music: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky and Bohuslav Martinů, with electronic music by Fritz Winckel and Rüdiger Rüfer Conductor: Simon Hewett Kenneth MacMillan’s full-length ballet is a compelling exploration of identity in the turbulent wake of the Russian Revolution. Live cinema relay: 2 November 2016 Chroma / New Wayne McGregor / Carbon Life (10–19 November 2016) Choreography: Wayne McGregor Music: Joby Talbot and Jack White III / Steve Reich / Mark Ronson and […]
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