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2024-02-22 08:09:00
Cinderella in the gas works: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's site-specific production of Massenet's opera
Jonathan Dove: The Enchanted Pig - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 2023 (Photo Greg Milner)On Monday 29 February 2024, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire debuts its Spring opera production, Massenet's Cendrillon at Gas Street Central in Birmingham. The production involves a collaboration between the London College of Fashion and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with a cast of students from the conservatoire's Vocal & Operatic Studies Department plus a team of student set-designers, language coaches, assistant directors, surtitle operators and so on. All directed by Matthew Eberhardt who has created a production set in the 1950sThe venue is a former gas works that originally supplied the gas to the lamps around the city and is now a church. The production will see the audience move through this interesting space.The conservatoire does not have a specific postgraduate opera course and the performers will be undergraduate and masters vocal students, from the Vocal & Operatic Studies Department […]
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
[…] intimate Schumann and Schubert - concert reviewMade in Switzerland: tenor Daniel Behle and pianist Oliver Schnyder combine musicality and intelligence - concert reviewLiszt Cycle 1: From poetic Liszt and Grieg concertos to a little bit of magic from Martha Argerich and friends - concert reviewAwash with musical history: Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots at Oper Leipzig, Shostakovich celebrated by Gewandhausorchester, Leipzig Music Trail, Mendelssohn Haus, Bach Archiv & more - featureLet the dialogue flow: Benjamin Bernheim leads a wonderfully memorable account of Massenet's Werther in Zurich - concert reviewHome
2024-02-02 08:18:00
A vivid panorama of Freya Waley-Cohen's compositional interests & techniques: Manchester Collective in Spell Book at the Barbican
[…] intimate Schumann and Schubert - concert reviewMade in Switzerland: tenor Daniel Behle and pianist Oliver Schnyder combine musicality and intelligence - concert reviewLiszt Cycle 1: From poetic Liszt and Grieg concertos to a little bit of magic from Martha Argerich and friends - concert reviewAwash with musical history: Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots at Oper Leipzig, Shostakovich celebrated by Gewandhausorchester, Leipzig Music Trail, Mendelssohn Haus, Bach Archiv & more - featureLet the dialogue flow: Benjamin Bernheim leads a wonderfully memorable account of Massenet's Werther in Zurich - concert reviewAn evening of bold & adventurous programming: wind & brass from Southbank Sinfonia & Britten Sinfonia combine - concert reviewHome
2024-02-01 07:43:00
Being themselves: the young artists of the National Opera Studio in Simple Gifts, a programme of song from across the globe at Wigmore Hall
[…] intimate Schumann and Schubert - concert reviewMade in Switzerland: tenor Daniel Behle and pianist Oliver Schnyder combine musicality and intelligence - concert reviewLiszt Cycle 1: From poetic Liszt and Grieg concertos to a little bit of magic from Martha Argerich and friends - concert reviewAwash with musical history: Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots at Oper Leipzig, Shostakovich celebrated by Gewandhausorchester, Leipzig Music Trail, Mendelssohn Haus, Bach Archiv & more - featureLet the dialogue flow: Benjamin Bernheim leads a wonderfully memorable account of Massenet's Werther in Zurich - concert reviewAn evening of bold & adventurous programming: wind & brass from Southbank Sinfonia & Britten Sinfonia combine - concert reviewEavesdropping on their dramas: Opera North's 'in the round' production Britten's Albert Herring - opera reviewHome
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