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2023-11-13 07:42:00
Plenty of food for thought & some terrific singing: Oliver Mears' staging of Handel's Jephtha at the Royal Opera with a towering performance from Allan Clayton in the title role
[…] moments of complete dramatic stasis.Handel: Jephtha - the Ammonites in Act OneRoyal Opera House (Photo: Marc Brenner)It was thus with great interest that we caught the second performance of Oliver Mears' new production of Handel's Jephtha at the Royal Opera House. Laurence Cummings conducted the orchestra of the Royal Opera House with Allan Clayton as Jephtha, Alice Coote as Storge, Jennifer France as Iphis, Cameron Shahbazi as Hamor, and Brindley Sherratt as Zebul. Sets were by Simon Lima Holdsworth, costumes by Ilona Karas, video by Sander Loonen, lighting by Fabiana Piccioli and movement by Anna Morrissey. In fact, Mears was working with the same team as his production of Verdi's Rigoletto.Holdsworth's sets were based around two massive stone panels with writing on them, these moved, reconfiguring the space so that the more intimate scenes were far more acoustically sympathetic, but the big visual coup was that as well as the Israelites we saw […]
2022-03-14 12:55:15
Antonio Carlos Ribeiro Barbosa-Lima was born in 1944, in São Paulo, Brazil, to a pharmaceutical salesman father and homemaker mother. At age seven, with no musical training, he began playing the guitar his father was trying to learn. Throughout his childhood, he studied with Isaias Sávio, an Uruguayan guitar teacher who settled in Brazil […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-03-10 21:14:18
A virtuoso since his teenage years, he performed concerts that ranged from classical repertory to Brazilian music to the Beatles and Broadway.
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