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Austrian composer, teacher and critic (1882-1964)
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2024-03-02 09:03:00
Shamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change
[…] work like Shamus O'Brien has no recording.This is all going to change as Retrospect Opera is releasing the first studio recording of Stanford's Shamus O'Brien with David Parry conducting the Orchestra of Scottish Opera plus soloists Brendan Collins, Anna Brady, Gemma Ni Bhriain, Ami Hewitt, Joseph Doody, Andrew Gavin and Rory Dunne with Irish piper Jarlath Henderson.I recently caught up by Zoom with conductor David Parry who was in Scotland amid performances of Jonathan Dove's new opera, Marx in London, a work which David refers to as fantastic. It has been something of a hit, too, with audiences with Scottish Opera selling out the Theatre Royal in Glasgow.Whilst Shamus O'Brien was popular in its time, David thinks that its very Irishness has mitigated against more recent performances in the complicated post-war political climate. Born in Dublin, Stanford was Anglo-Irish and the opera has a libretto by the Irish writer George H. Jessop […]
2024-02-14 17:14:17
Jonathan Dove’s entertaining score has brilliant leads but less brilliant words
2024-02-14 13:02:26
Theatre Royal, GlasgowA magnificent cast led by Roland Wood and Stephen Barlow’s vivid staging ensure that Scottish Opera’s production of Jonathan Dove’s rumbustious farce is both cogent and wittyHaving invested in the
2024-02-02 10:19:00
As chilling and emotional as ever: Kate Lindsey returns as Offred in ENO's strong revival of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale
[…] look forward to a vastly changed ENO. It was brave and heartening for ENO to schedule a contemporary opera as part of the season, but though the libretto is in English, The Handmaid's Tale is a 20-something-year-old opera by a Danish composer and it would seem a shame that ENO could not have joined forces with either Opera Holland Park or Scottish Opera to offer performances of the two new Jonathan Dove operas, Itch or Marx in London.Poul Ruders: The Handmaid's Tale - Elspeth McDonald, Kate Lindsey - English National Opera 2024 (Photo: Zoe Martin) Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogFiery & fully committed: Manchester Collective in Freya Waley-Cohen's Spell Book at the Barbican - concert reviewBeing themselves: the young artists of the National Opera Studio in Simple Gifts, a programme of […]
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