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2022-03-15 08:36:57
Renato Balsadonna(Photo Niel Gillespie) There is a chance next month to hear conductor Renato Balsadonna's thoughts on Verdi's La Traviata, a work that he conducts at Covent Garden next month. He will be talking about conducting La Traviata at an event presented by Opera Prelude at the Garrison Chapel, Chelsea Barracks on 1 April 2022. There will also be music from the opera performed by Opera Prelude's young artists Galina Averina, soprano, Alex Aldren, tenor and Jolyon Loy, bass baritone. We last caught Balsadonna in January conducting Verdi's Nabucco at Covent Garden [see my review], and his first appearance was conducting a terrific performance of Massenet's Le roi de Lahore with Chelsea Opera Group in 2015 [see my review] Opera Prelude is a charity devoted to supporting early career singers and sharing their love of opera with such events, bridging across the footlights. Further details from the Opera Prelude website.
2021-10-03 10:23:11
Leeds Grand theatreOpera North’s colourful production zeroes in on female agency with Chrystal E Williams as a magnetic Playboy-styled Carmen Opera North’s post-pandemic return to full-scale opera for a live audience is a Carmen that’s as camp and colourful as they come, but also has a serious ambition. The director is Edward Dick, who staged Tosca here in 2018. His aim is to make Carmen the active heroine of her own opera, which is harder than it sounds given the many male gazes – of novelist, librettists, composer – through which she’s imagined. We’re somewhere in the US, at a seedy club where the local Garrison hang out, all bead curtains and glitterballs in Colin Richmond’s designs. It’s a long way from the cliched Spain of Bizet’s original, although Chrystal E Williams, who gives a magnetic and beautifully sung performance in the title role, still gets to show off her […]
2020-12-03 09:02:42
BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sunday, December 3, 1820
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