Marjorie Owens News
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2024-01-02 11:00:19
On this day in 2015 soprano Marjorie Owens made her Metropolitan Opera debut (and only Met performance thus far) as Verdi‘s Aida.
2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
[…] so admirably sung by mezzo-soprano and ENO favourite, Christine Rice, looking like a Prince Orlofsky character dressed in pin-striped trousers holding court in the best tradition of any landlady while her two nieces (sopranos Cleo Lee-McGowan and Ava Dodd) prove a good attraction at the pub clutching rag-dolls, playing street games and enjoying the attention being paid to them by some of the ‘regulars’. A compelling performance came from another well-loved British mezzo-soprano, Anne Marie Owens, as the drug-taking Mrs Sedley, who sinks greatly beneath her station to get her fix but always ready (and at the forefront) to condemn Grimes for no apparent reason other than suspicion. In fact, the scene at The Boar is memorable in so many ways but none more so than when Grimes stumbles into the bar well past closing time coming to collect his new apprentice (Boy: John/William Biletsky) claimed from the workhouse by […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-24 13:25:23
Music Remembers Wartime Trauma
[…] it, not just to listen to it superficially, you become aware of something very dark. There are gears that are grinding and not quite meshing, and they make a great pain.” Comprehending the story of Britten’s War Requiem (1962) requires understanding Britten’s deep-seated dislike for war. He had long been interested in writing a requiem, and, when the opportunity to do so arose in 1958 (at which point he was England’s most distinguished composer) he craftily deployed the powerful words of the British poet, Wilfred Owens, who died on the battlefield in the First World War. Britten believed a composer should "be of use" to his society, and in this work, he was. “If one listens closely, the work challenges all of the civic and patriotic virtues. Reinforced by war monuments, the notion of a noble sacrifice justified by the future of the state, the importance of unity around the flag, the dominance of the conservative social order (even if it is that very social order that led a country […]
2023-08-23 21:44:00
Generational Change
[…] Howard as Hunding, Elza van den Heever as Sieglinde, Brian Mulligan as Wotan, Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Siegmund. I'm not sure I buy the latter, and this seems a little far out for Mulligan, but certainly this could be a way for the singers and conductor to try out these roles.Other singers who might turn up in a Met or SFO Ring, in addition to those in YN-S's upcoming performances, include Christine Goerke, Amber Wagner, Marjorie Owens, Lise Davidsen (I mean....Davidsen is sure to be in the next Met Ring, it's just a question of which role she will be singing), former Adler Fellow Sarah Cambidge, Andreas Schager, Clay Hilley, Issachah Savage, and more.
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