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2022-04-03 04:12:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 3, 2022
[…] Opera: New Immersive Theatrical Production of Strauss's SalomeTulsa Opera premieres a new production of Richard Strauss’s Salome that will take celebrating the return of live performances to a new level by offering members of the audience the opportunity to not only watch the action, but to be immersed in it over two performances Friday, April 29 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 1 at 2:30 p.m. at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.The principal cast includes Julia Mintzer making her Salome role debut, tenor Jay Hunter Morris as Herod, and mezzo-soprano Katharine Goeldner as Herodias—all three singers making their Tulsa Opera debuts—and bass-baritone Wayne Tigges as Jochanaan.For details, visit https://tulsaopera.com/--Lisa Jaehnig, Shuman Associates2022 Newport Classical Music FestivalNewport Classical (formerly Newport Music Festival) announces its 2022 Newport Classical Music Festival, running from July 1-17, 2022. For its 54th season, Newport Classical Music Festival presents 24 concerts over 18 days, and will return for […]
2021-11-07 21:15:00
Le nozze di Figaro, HGO, 5 November 2021
Jackson’s Lane Theatre Figaro – Louis Hurst Susanna – Shafali Jalota Count Almaviva – Thomas Chenhall The Countess – Camilla Harris Cherubino – Esme Bronwen-Smith Basilio, Don Curzio – Martins Smaukstelis Doctor Bartolo – Hector Bloggs Marcellina – Becca Marriott Antonio – Owain Evans Barbarina, Second Bridesmaid – Astrid Joos First Bridesmaid – Phoebe Smith Chorus – Anna Simmons, Angela Yang Julia Mintzer (director) Benjamin Anderson (assistant director) Carmine de Amicis (choreography) Charles Ogilvie (set designs) Ruben Cameiro (costumes) Jancy Dancinger (sound and lighting design) Ben Poore (dramaturgy) HGO Chamber OrchestraThomas Payne (conductor) Images: Laurent Compagnon HGO (formerly Hampstead Garden Opera) has been one of the musical heroes of the pandemic. Last year, it brought opera back to London with Holst’s Savītri; this year, it was one of the first to bring it back again, with Cavalli’s L’Egisto. Now, in a new production from […]
2021-07-11 07:32:29
Dr Bluebeard will see you now: Gothic Opera remakes Bartok's opera and sets it in an Edwardian sanatorium
Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle - Gothic Opera (photo Nick Rutter) Bartok Bluebeard's Castle; Simon Wilding, Alexandra Long, Carmine de Amicis, dir: Julia Mintzer, cond: Thomas Payne; Gothic Opera at Porchester Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 July 2021 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) A radical reinterpretation of Bartok's opera with a striking contemporary dance element and imaginative animations Bartok: Bluebeard's CastleCarmine de Amicis, Simon WildingGothic Opera (photo Nick Rutter) In many ways, Bartok's opera A kékszakállú herceg vára (Duke Bluebeard's Castle) is impossible to stage. Bartok put so much of the action (whether literal or metaphorical) in the wonderful music that a semi-staged, concert performance often works best, allowing the direction to concentrate on the relationship between the Duke and his new wife, Judith. So I was very intrigued when, as a follow-up to their radical staging of Marschner's Der Vampyr, Gothic Opera turned its attention to Bartok's […]
2021-05-05 08:14:17
Gothic Opera, co-founders Alice Usher, Charlotte Osborn and Béatrice de Larragoïti, made its debut in 2019 with a production of Marschner's Der Vampyr, a suitably gothic starting point. The company is returning to the stage in July 2021 with a very different type of gothic tale, Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle in a multi-disciplinary production at Porchester Hall. The production will combine sound design, digital animation and dance. The company will be working with director Julia Mintzer and choreographer Carmine de Amicis, with mezzo-soprano Alexandra Long and bass-baritone Simon Wilding, conducted by Thomas Payne. The performance will use a new chamber orchestration by Leon Haxby. With Der Vampyr, the company took an irreverent and feminist approach, retelling a nineteenth century opera through the contemporary lens of consent and agency. With Bluebeard's Castle they are taking a similarly active approach. Leon Haxby's orchestration extracts vocal lines for three female singers from the original music, […]
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