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Czech music educator, composer and choirmaster
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2022-07-07 06:22:12
Beyond the Garden: Developing an Opera
[…] the Janacek Academy and ending up in a political variety theatre in Prague (shut down by the Nazis and later the Communists – so they must have been doing something right) helped the opera transform and now go on another part of the journey as it plays on English stages.Stephen McNeff Beyond the Garden: When the past is not how you want to remember it… - Stephen McNeff's programme note Stephen McNeff, Susan Bickely and Katja Konvalinka, director of Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre, in Brno with Leoš JanáčekThe inspiration forBeyond the Garden came from a conversation in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2018 where I was talking about ideas for a new chamber opera with Katya Konvalinka director of Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre. They had recently produced my opera Gentle Giant and we were sitting near the opera house in Ljubljana where Gustav Mahler had spent a season in 1881. Katja remarked […]
2020-08-14 08:28:15
Premiere of Stephen McNeff and Aoife Mannix's new opera, Beyond the Garden, in Slovenia
Amazingly, a new British opera will receive its stage premiere this September, an event to be celebrated at the best of times and particularly so in the current crisis. The staging will take place in Lubljana, Slovenia where Beyond the Garden by Stephen McNeff and Aoife Mannix was commissioned by Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre (SKGG). The premiere, delayed from July 2020, takes place at the Cankarjev dom, the main arts complex in Ljubljana, on 4 September 2020, with Susan Bickley and Katja Konvalinka, conducted by Simon Dvoršak and in a production directed by Rocc (Rok Rappl), former artistic director of the Slovenian National Opera. Lasting around 70 minutes and written for two singers and five-piece chamber ensemble, the work explores the relationship between Alma Mahler and her daughter Manon, who died at the age of 18. McNeff describes the piece as a ghost story, and the Mannix's libretto explores the […]
2019-07-20 10:58:17
Beyond the Garden
Alma Mahler in the garden of her housein Venice in 1929 Oltre il giardino (Beyond the Garden) is a hotel in Venice based in a house once belonged to Alma Mahler (she lived there in the 1920s, partly because it did have a garden). The hotel's English title Beyond the Garden has now given its name to a new opera by composer Stephen McNeff and librettist Aoife Mannix which is partly inspired by Alma Mahler and her relationship with her daugther Manon Gropius (who died from polio, contracted whilst staying with her mother in Venice, at the age of 18).Beyond the Garden is a work in progress, whose premiere takes place in June 2020 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, by Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre (SKGG) with Susan Bickley and Kaja Konvalinka singing the leading roles of Ottilia and Klara. Yesterday (19 July 2019), McNeff presented a fascinating workshop on the new opera, […]
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