Kate Condon News
American opera singer (1877-1941)
- contralto
- United States of America
- actor, opera singer, stage actor
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2024-03-26
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2023-08-04 23:07:00
This started out as a San Francisco Opera wish list, but hey - there are a number of other opera companies in the Bay Area that are capable of staging (or have already staged) works and composers that I have in mind.Debussy, Pélleas et Mélisande. San Francisco Opera hasn't done this great masterpiece since the late 1990s, when Simon Keenlyside and Frederica von Stade starred as Debussy's doomed characters. It's sui generis, an elusive and quietly devastating opera without big arias. West Edge Opera took in on and did an excellent job with it, I think in 2018, with a reduced orchestra and some cuts. LA Opera's bring up this past spring was magnificent, with a terrific cast, masterly conducting by James Condon, and a really fine David McVicar production. I'll be seeing it in around two weeks in Santa Fe and have reached a point where I can't get enough […]
2021-05-08 09:34:37
Messe da Pacem: conductor Rupert Gough and the choir of Royal Holloway rediscover a mass by Pierre Villette, unperformed since the 1970s
[…] Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Also to come is a disc of music by the British composer George Arthur who has written several works for the choir. Maurice Ravel, arr. Rupert Gough - Requiem AeternamPierre Villete - Messe da PacemPierre Villete - ÉlévationPierre Villete - Hymne à la ViergePierre Villete - Salutation angéliqueYves Castagnet - Messe BreveYves Castagnet - Veni Sancte SpiritusThe Choir of Royal HollowayRupert Gough (director/organ)Sarah Fox (soprano)Andrew Dewar (organ)Liam Condon (organ)AD FONTES AF004 The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog Celebrating Latvia's centenary with music: the State Choir "Latvija" records 16 new works from a project creating a grand total of 77 new pieces by Latvian composers - record review Vaughan Williams' folk songs; Albion Records continues its exploration with […]
2018-10-18 07:00:00
Irish ExaminerBy Diarmaid Condon. CBRE has just announced the sale by private treaty, of Building 2600 at Cork Airport Business Park. This is described as a 'prime office ...
2018-10-03 07:00:00
The Irish TimesTipperary woman Kerry Condon's first lead role, in Sharon Horgan's Women on the Verge, brought new pressures.
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