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Czech composer (1854–1928)
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Cinderella in the gas works: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's site-specific production of Massenet's opera
Jonathan Dove: The Enchanted Pig - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 2023 (Photo Greg Milner)On Monday 29 February 2024, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire debuts its Spring opera production, Massenet's Cendrillon at Gas Street Central in Birmingham. The production involves a collaboration between the London College of Fashion and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with a cast of students from the conservatoire's Vocal & Operatic Studies Department plus a team of student set-designers, language coaches, assistant directors, surtitle operators and so on. All directed by Matthew Eberhardt who has created a production set in the 1950sThe venue is a former gas works that originally supplied the gas to the lamps around the city and is now a church. The production will see the audience move through this interesting space.The conservatoire does not have a specific postgraduate opera course and the performers will be undergraduate and masters vocal students, from the Vocal & Operatic Studies […]
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2024-02-13 18:00:42
Takács Quartet Debuts Flow
[…] Sagan and others who composed this message sent. Then David Shifrin, artistic director of the Phoenix Chamber Music Society Spring Festival and then artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest, commissioned me to write either a clarinet or viola quintet to premiere with the Dover Quartet. So, I just decided to write myself in. We premiered it, then I orchestrated it because I was hoping for time to record it with conductor Anthony Armore and the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra after my Viola Concerto. But I didn’t have time to record it, as we worked on the concerto for the entire session. The Detroit Symphony found out that I had this orchestral score (string orchestra, harp and percussion) and reached out to premiered it in 2020 with Maestro Xian Zhang. She connected with the piece and started touring with it, and that was how Primal Message took off as an orchestral piece. […]
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