Kitty Clive News
British actress (1711-1785)
Commemorations 2025 (Death: Kitty Clive)
- soprano
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- actor, singer, opera singer, playwright, writer, stage actor
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2024-04-25
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2024-03-29 17:16:31
Clive Summers on the withdrawal of funding from Mid Wales Opera. Plus, Paul Collins on English National Opera’s forthcoming move from London Your editorial rightly praises Welsh National Opera for its innovative new production of Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice (
2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
[…] end by falling down a cliff hurrying to get to his boat - to a great outcry. What offers this production so much depth and interest are the strong and effective crowd scenes created by movement director, Maxine Braham. For instance, the opening scene was more than striking packed by local misfits, busybodies and all those annoying types crowding the back of the courtroom to witness the local coroner and drunkard, Swallow (sung cunningly by Clive Bayley) conducting an inquest into the death of William Spode, Grimes’ first apprentice, who died in his fishing boat. Although acquitted of any wrongdoing, the ‘locals’ thought otherwise and were out for his blood. The cast is further strengthened by Adam Sullivan as Bob Boles (fisherman and Methodist), David Soar (Hobson, the carrier) and Ronald Samm (Revd Horace Adams) while Alex Otterburn (Ned Keene) plays the role of apothecary with a touch of deviousness […]
2023-10-06 11:51:00
The flower fairies are back: Cal McCrystal's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe for ENO fills the London Coliseum with colour, movement & comedy
[…] could object to the stage hands and property sheep pulling focus as Marcus Farnsworth and Ellie Laugharne sang Strephon and Phyllis' Act One duet, a lovely number, engagingly sung. But it was very funny and Farnsworth and Laugharne both have strong enough musical characters and stage presence to cope. There are three extra characters. The fairy Fleta (Petra Massey) and the Lord Chancellor's page (Adam Brown), both of whom got involved in physical theatre, plus Clive Mantle as Captain Shaw, the Victorian fire officer, whose contributions were, I think, meant to be funny but whose opening peroration had just a little too much 'vamp till ready' for my taste.There was also a lot of flying. Impressively Catherine Wyn-Rogers' Fairy Queen not only flew but sang at the same time, and all sorts of characters appeared in the air. McCrystal seems to take a character's absence from the plot or the […]
2023-10-03 11:22:22
Our cover stars this month are the legendary early music ensemble The Tallis Scholars. As his trailblazing vocal group turns 50 years old, the ensemble’s conductor Peter Phillips celebrates with Jeremy Pound. Elsewhere in the magazine, Rebecca Franks reports on the Welsh National Opera Orchestra’s deep delve into the world of Czech music, while conductor François-Xavier Roth tells Clive Paget what marks his versatile Les Siècles orchestra out from others. Jessica Duchen explores a strange, surprising and highly effective new visual take on Fauré’s Requiem, and John Allison tells the story of composer Priaulx Rainier, a distinctive but hidden gem of South African music. For Composer of the Month, Erik Levi recounts the astonishing adventures of Jan Ladislav Dussek – which included hobnobbing with royalty, accusations of conspiracy, scandalous affairs and bankruptcy. And this month’s Building a Library is Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante: Charlotte Smith enjoys this graceful work, and picks out some finest […]
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