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2022-03-15 08:50:57
An Anglo-Indian Orpheus, a first Ariadne and the challenge of The Pearl Fishers - Opera North's 2022/23 programme
[…] an exoticised pre-colonial Sri Lanka. Another intriguing event is a staging of Mozart's Requiem being performed in association with Phoenix Dance Theatre. Garry Walker conducts with choreography by Dane Hursts. Revivals during the year include two productions which made a splash when new and certainly repay a visit. Alessandro Talevi's production of Verdi's La traviata returns with Anna Denisova, Nico Darmanin / Oliver Johnston, Stephen Gadd / Damiano Salerno, conducted by Jonathan Webb / Manoj Kamps. Edward Dick's production of Puccini's Tosca returns with Giselle Allen in the title role, plus Robert Hayward as Scarpia (both returning to the roles), conducted by Joana Carneiro (making her Opera North debut). David Pountney's classic production of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen returns with Garry Walker conducting and Elin Pritchard in the title role. The company's Young Performers programme is now housed within the recently redeveloped Bramall Education Studio at the Howard Opera Centre, […]
2022-02-15 09:46:32
[…] Pierre Audi, with Erik Nielsen conducting the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra with Andrè Schuen as Orpheus, Julia Kleiter as Eurydice, Thomas Oliemans as Pluto, Katia Ledoux as Proserpina. Trojahn's contemporary take on the story uses the power of music to allegorically describe the attraction of the muse-like figure of Eurydice to the singing artist Orpheus, to describe the love between Orpheus and Eurydice as the love between word and sound, between artistry and inspiration. When Manoj Kamps and Lisenka Heijboer Castañón premiered FAUST [Working Title] with DNO they introduced a working practice that created new work via a collective of performers, designers, writers and composers from different disciplines and backgrounds worked together intensively, sharing stories, teaching each other songs and choreographies and exchanging skills in workshops and through online channels. Their new work, I have missed you forever, follows the same communal creation process. The result will not be the work […]
2020-02-21 10:32:14
Opera North in 2020/21, new opera from Iain Bell and Will Todd, Handel's Alcina and a first Parsifal
[…] first Gurnemanz [an interview with Brindley is coming up on the blog], plus Katarina Karnéus as Kundry, Robert Hayward as Amfortas and Eric Greene as Klingsor.Alessandro Talevi's production of Verdi's La traviata returns in Autumn 2020 with Anna Denisova and Camila Titinger as Violetta, Nico Darmanin and Oliver Johnston as Alfredo and Stephen Gadd as Germont [we caught Stephen Gadd as Germont at Opera Holland Park in 2018, see my review]. Jonathan Webb and Manoj Kamps share the conducting honours. Matthew Eberhardt's production of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti [first seen in the Little Greats season in 2017, see my review, and Eberhardt directed Opera North's recent production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene, see my review] returns with Quirijn de Lang and Sandra Piques Eddy, and will be paired with a new dance version of Bernstein's West Side Story Symphonic Dances created by choreographer Aletta Collins with Phoenix Dance Company. Jonathan […]
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