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2024-03-02 09:03:00
Shamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change
[…] been something of a hit, too, with audiences with Scottish Opera selling out the Theatre Royal in Glasgow.Whilst Shamus O'Brien was popular in its time, David thinks that its very Irishness has mitigated against more recent performances in the complicated post-war political climate. Born in Dublin, Stanford was Anglo-Irish and the opera has a libretto by the Irish writer George H. Jessop (1852-1915), based on a poem by Anglo-Irish novelist and writer of Gothic tales, Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). It presents the Irish as proud patriots who outwit the rather dim English soldiers charged with keeping order; the heroes and heroines of the piece are Irish with Shamus O'Brien as something of a resistance leader.But for David, the opera deserves to be heard; the music is of a very high quality and he describes the work as enchanting. Not only are there great ensembles in the piece but Stanford's use […]
2023-09-16 09:45:00
Mesmerising chamber drama: Dani Howard & Joseph Spence's The Yellow Wallpaper from The Opera Story
Dani Howard: The Yellow Wallpaper - The Opera Story (Photo: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen)Dani Howard and Joseph Spence: The Yellow Wallpaper; Clare Presland, Valerie Ebuwa, Berrak Dyer, Midori Jaeger, director: Amy Lane; The Opera Story at Lilian Baylis StudioIn a remarkable change of pace, The Opera Story returns with an intense, focused and mesmerising chamber drama with Dani Howard's music teasing out the layers in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 19th-century horror storyCharlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, The Yellow Wallpaper (first published in 1892) is part of a tradition of horror fiction that dates back to Sheridan Lefanu, but it is also an icon of feminist literature as Perkins Gilman's reasons for writing it were to highlight the iniquities of the (male) insistence on rest cures for women to solve all sorts of problems.In a move away from the company's focus on story-telling based on mashups of myths and fables, The Opera Story presented […]
2022-02-19 06:28:00
[…] enhance the artist’s musicianship and career. The first Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist will be announced in 2026.The Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Awards will be established with an $8 million gift to The Gilmore endowment and will be named for Kalamazoo businessman and President of the Gilmore International Piano Festival Board of Trustees Larry J. Bell.For more information, visit https://www.thegilmore.org/--Lisa Jaehnig, Shuman Associates“Mozart with a View” International Festival and CompetitionFrom Pianist Susan Merdinger and Sheridan Music Studios”"I am truly excited to announce that Sheridan Music Studio's 2022 “Mozart with a View” International Festival and Competition is coming up on February 25-27, 2022. The entire three-day event will be livestreamed.".We have 40 contestants being featured in this year's Festival and Competition, along with Lectures, and Gala Concerts and Master Classes provided by our distinguished Jury Members: David Yonan, Jory Vinikour, Rachel Barton Pine, Svetlana Belsky, Susan Merdinger, Charles Pikler, and […]
2022-01-08 06:10:00
[…] the PROTOTYPE Festival, alongside partners St. Ann's Warehouse, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and Abrons Arts Center, announced the difficult decision to postpone this year’s tenth anniversary festival to January of 2023, due to the current surge in COVID cases and the resulting safety risks, as well as logistical challenges including artist and staff illnesses, travel complications, and more. The Festival was scheduled to run January 7-16, 2022.For more information please visit https://prototypefestival.org/prototype2022/--Andrew Ousley, Unison MediaSheridan Music Studio UpdatesWe have decided to postpone our Annual Gala Concert Fundraisers scheduled for January 30 and February 6th, due to the current and ongoing COVID concerns. We are hoping to reschedule the Gala Concert for some time in May- hopefully by then, things will be much improved with both the weather and the Pandemic! The next live concerts in the studio will be March 13 with the Kaia String Quartet and March 27th, […]
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