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2024-04-24 08:20:00
The 13th Lewes Chamber Music Festival takes place from 6 to 8 June 2024 with artistic director Beatrice Philips bringing together 18 of today's most exciting chamber-musicians and soloists to explore the musical ties between Europe and America through celebrating the 150th birthdays of Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, including Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Ode to Napoleon with actor Samuel West, and rare chamber versions of larger scale works by Richard Strauss and Mahler.The weekend opens with early piano quartets by Mahler and Richard Strauss along with music by Elliott Carter and Anton Webern's quintet arrangement of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No.1, and there is more Schoenberg with a late-night performance of Verklärte Nacht. And the festival will include more Schoenberg along with performances of music by Berg, Zemlinsky, Schulhoff, Korngold, Hindemith, Brahms, Ives, Amy Beach and Gershwin.A wonderfully ambitious gala concert features Guido Martin-Brandis' arrangement of the magical closing scenes from […]
2021-10-25 07:39:38
Strauss: Die ägyptische Helena - Brian Smith Walters, Justine Viani - Fulham Opera (Photo Matthew Coughlan) Strauss: Die ägyptische Helena; Justine Viani, Brian Smith Walters, Luci Briginshaw, Oliver Gibbs, dir: Guido Martin-Brandis, cond: John Paul C Jennings; Fulham Opera at St John's Church, Fulham Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 24 October 2021 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) only the work's second UK staging, Fulham Opera take on Strauss and Hofmannsthal's impossible opera and make it work brilliantlyRichard Strauss' Die ägyptische Helena remains something of the ugly duckling amongst the operas he wrote with Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Premiered in Dresden in 1928, it has rarely been performed in the UK. Having staged such enterprises as Wagner's Ring Cycle and The Mastersingers, as well as Verdi's Don Carlo, Fulham Opera has bravely moved on to Strauss' Die ägyptische Helena, only the work's second ever staging in the UK. When I chatted to Fulham […]
2021-10-22 11:35:00
St John’s Church, FulhamHelena – Justine Viani Menelas – Brian Smith Walters Aithra – Luci Briginshaw Altair – Oliver Gibbs Da-Ud – Dominic J Walsh Omniscient Mussel – Ingeborg Børch Hermione – Liz Stock Servants – Christine Buras, Natasha Elliott Elves – Maggie Cooper, Donya Rafati Rosalind O’Dowd, Rebecca Moulton, Corinne Hart Slaves – Kester Guy-Briscoe, Jack Stone, Robin Whitehouse, Graham Wheeler Guido Martin-Brandis (director)Johan Ribbing (assistant director)Sarah Heenan (producer)Alexander McPherson (designs)Mitch Broomhead (lighting)Instrumental EnsembleBen Woodward (conductor) A splendid evening from Fulham Opera, making an excellent case for the bizarrely, well-nigh criminally neglected (at least on Plague Island) Ägyptische Helena. That a major Strauss-Hofmannsthal opera was here receiving its staged London premiere beggars belief; such, alas, is our lot in Das Land ohne Musik. Sunlit uplands and German car manufacturers will doubtless one day come to our rescue, perhaps with a spot of ‘innovative jam’. In the meantime, hats off to […]
2021-10-04 06:43:32
'The more light-heartedly you can handle this, the better it would be' - Strauss, Hofmannsthal and Die ägyptische Helena
[…] talked with Busch. So we had a break and then Act I all over again with Strauss at the rostrum. It was like a different opera; one big line from beginning to end, the right tempi and rubatos, co-operation with the singers and many of the 4/4 passages beaten in 2." Fulham Opera performs Richard Strauss' Die ägyptische Helena at St John's Church, Fulham, SW6 1PB (19,22, 24, 26, 28 October) in a production directed by Guido Martin-Brandis, conducted by Ben Woodward/John Paul Jennings with Justine Viviani as Helena, Brian Walter Smith as Menelas, Luci Briginshaw as Aithra, Ingeborg Børch/Liza Graham as the Omniscient Mussel, Oliver Gibbs/Andrew Mayor as Altair, Dominic J Walsh as Da Ud, Liz Stock as Hermione. Full details from the Fulham Opera website. Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your […]
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