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2024-03-01 07:33:00
Dancing with Piazzolla: Welcome to the sophisticated world of the London Tango Quintet
Dancing with Piazzolla: Astor Piazzolla, Agustín Bardi, Pintín Castellanos, David Gordon, Horacio Salgán, Juan de Dios Filiberto, Enrique Delfino, Feliciano Brunelli, Gerardo Matos Rodríguez; London Tango Quintet; AWAL27 February 2024High musical values, a love of the genre and a sense of engagement that draws you in, welcome to the sophisticated world of the London Tango QuintetFounded by violinist David Juritz in 2007, the London Tango Quintet brings together David Juritz - violin, Craig Ogden – guitar, Miloš Milivojević - accordion, David Gordon - piano and Richard Pryce – double bass, a striking line-up of musicians with backgrounds stretching from jazz to classical and beyond, linked by their love of tango. Dancing with Piazzolla is the ensemble's debut disc and features six tracks by Piazzolla alongside other tango classics and new pieces by the ensemble's keyboard player.What strikes you on first listen to the disc is the high level of musicianship and the […]
2024-02-01 07:43:00
Being themselves: the young artists of the National Opera Studio in Simple Gifts, a programme of song from across the globe at Wigmore Hall
[…] the young artists of the National Opera Studio had the challenge of being themselves, on the song recital stage, when they presented Simple Gifts - Songs from across the globe at Wigmore Hall. This featured sopranos Rosalind Dobson, Nikolina Hrkać, Kira Kaplan, Sofia Kirwan-Baez and Heming Li, mezzo-sopranos Georgia Mae Ellis, and Camilla Seale, tenors Robert Forrest and Rhydian Jenkins, baritones Jonathan Eyers and Aleksander Kaczuk-Jagielnik, and bass-baritone Smelo Mahlangu, accompanied by repetiteurs Johanna Kvam, Blanca Graciá Rodríguez and Jacob Swindells. The repertoire features songs by Schubert along with Copland, Dora Pejačević, Chopin, Tosti, Gareth Glyn, Rui Zhang, Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, Brahms, Ravel, Sibusiso Njeza, Otilio Galindez, Tom Cipullo, Douglas Lilburn, and William Walton. A theme running through many of the songs was belonging, and quite a few of the singers performed music by composers from their native country, thus giving the recital a rather more varied feel than usual. The programme […]
2024-01-22 09:15:00
UK-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, offers a preview of Northern Opera Group’s 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival which includes a brand-new opera on Sherlock Holmes.
Running from 17 August to 8 September 2024, the 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival, programmed by Northern Opera Group, offers audiences a blend of world premières alongside exciting collaborations designed for the whole community. The festival’s renowned for combining new productions of rare operas peppered by a wide programme of talks, panel discussions, workshops and other events across the late August Bank Holiday weekend. For instance, the 2023 festival featured the UK première of Robert Rodriguez’ opera Frida alongside a collaboration with the Northern School of Contemporary Dance on Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires in a healthy and inspiring four-week programme of opera and music inspired by Latin America. Other recent productions include Charles Villiers Stanford’s Much Ado About Nothing (2019) and Handel’s Silla (2022). And reaching out to communities in Leeds and Bradford, Northern Opera Group is committed in enabling people of all ages and abilities to take part in opera […]
2023-11-20 00:56:00
San Francisco Opera 2024 Adler Fellows; Adler Concert
War Memorial Opera House, San FranciscoPhoto by Lisa HirschSan Francisco Opera announced the 2024 Adler Fellows at the beginning of October. Here's the basic information from the press release:The artists selected as 2024 Adler Fellows are sopranos Georgiana Adams (Chicago, Illinois), Caroline Corrales (St. Louis, Missouri), Arianna Rodriguez (Fairfax, Virginia) and Olivia Smith (Penticton, British Columbia, Canada); mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz (Oakland, California); tenor Thomas Kinch (Cardiff, Wales); baritone Samuel Kidd (Ann Arbor, Michigan); bass-baritones Jongwon Han (Seoul, South Korea) and James McCarthy (Pleasantville, New York) and coaches/pianists Julian Grabarek (Acton, Massachusetts) and Yang Lin (Shanghai, China). Georgiana Adams, Caroline Corrales, Julian Grabarek, Thomas Kinch, Samuel Kidd and James McCarthy are incoming first-year fellows. Arianna Rodriguez, Olivia Smith, Nikola Printz, Jongwon Han and Yang Lin continue in the program as second-year fellows. The Adler program has trained any number of young singers who went on to good careers in opera. It's always nice to be able to say "I knew them when," and the annual Alder concert is a great opportunity to hear these talented […]
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