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Cinderella in the gas works: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's site-specific production of Massenet's opera
[…] conductor Paul Wingfield. The lack of specific opera course means that undergraduates are able to gain stage experience, including principal roles where suitable, and in Cendrillon there are some 17 undergraduates in principal roles (the opera is double-cast).There are usually three productions per year, staged scenes in November, a site-specific production in March and a concert performance in June. Previous productions have included Jonathan Dove's The Enchanted Pig (2023), Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen (2023), Charpentier's Les Arts Florissants and Offenbach's Mesdames de la Halles (2022), Stephen McNeff's Banished (2022), Mark-Anthony Turnage's Coraline (2021) and Jeremy Sams' Baroque pasticcio, The Enchanted Island (2020).The conservatoire does not have it's own theatre, hence offering the students the added experience of working on a site specific production (Birmingham has a rich inheritance of this thanks to Graham Vick's work with Birmingham Opera Company) previous venues have included an old button factory, and a […]
2024-01-15 21:53:00
West Edge Opera Festival Schedule Change
Oakland Scottish Rite CenterJuly, 2022West Edge Opera has announced that they're delaying their production of Charpentier's David and Jonathan to 2025, swapping in Luna Pearl Woolf and Royce Vavrek's Jacqueline in 2024. The latter will star soprano Marnie Breckenridge and cellist Matt Haimovitz. From the press release:Jacqueline dives into the real-life struggle between celebrity virtuosic cellist Jacqueline du Pré and the multiple sclerosis that ravaged her body, mind, and talent, robbing her of her identity, her breathtaking musical gift, and her life. This intimate piece for soprano and cello brings two contemporary virtuosi to the stage: celebrated soprano Marnie Breckenridge as Jacqueline, and renowned cellist (and former du Pré protégé) Matt Haimovitz as du Pré’s only constant companion, her cello. Inspired by the structure and emotional landscape of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, composer Luna Pearl Woolf and Pulitzer Prize winning librettist Royce Vavrek chart the development of great prodigy and ultimately, great tragedy. Jacqueline references Haimovitz’s personal […]
2024-01-09 14:00:41
A woman scorned
2024-01-08 19:12:00
Apollosaal, Staatsoper Unter den LindenJacques-Christophe Naudot: Flute Concerto in G major, op.17 no.5 Louis Couperin: Pavanne in F-sharp minor François Couperin: Concert Royal no.4 in E minor Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Suite no.4 in A major Nicolas Bernier: Cantata: Le Caffé Regina Koncz (soprano)Thomas Meyer (flute)Laura Volkwein, Jueyoung Yang (violins)Otto Tolonen (viola da gamba)Matthias Wilke (harpsichord/director) Autumn’s Barocktage brought Charpentier’s Médée to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, conducted by Simon Rattle and directed by Peter Sellars. I was alas in the end unable to go, but as a consolation prize heard this intelligently programmed concert of French Baroque music from soprano Regina Koncz and members of the Staatskapelle Berlin in their Preussens Hofmusik incarnation, directed from the harpsichord by Staatskapelle violist Matthias Wilke. Jacques-Christophe Naudot was represented by a flute concerto in G major, a fine introduction to the concert and performance as a whole both in instrumentation and in uniting […]
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