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Poetic drama & real musicality: highly imaginative Rusalka from Jack Furness at Garsington with Natalya Romaniw as a compelling water nymph
[…] had both Rice on top form and a choreographic dance for her assistants. This brings us to one of the productions other coups. There were six aerialist and acrobats in the cast who were forest beings. They appeared at the opening, and made appearances throughout the opera, not just dancing but shimmying up ropes and taking the movement upwards. This was a production that literally filled the stage with movement. The three wood nymphs, Marlena Devoe, Heather Lowe, and Stephanie Wake-Edwards were similarly active, so that they and the aerialists and acrobats seemed to create and all-singing, all-dancing ensemble. The Garsington Opera Chorus was on strong form, the women forming a fine group of water-nymphs, living in, singing in and being part of the water, yet in Act Two all (men and women) came together as a fine ensemble of courtiers. In the pit, Douglas Boyd encouraged the […]
2018-08-01 09:31:11
Leonard Ingrams Awards to young singers at Garsington
Robert Forrest, Marlena Devoe, Verity Wingate, Hollie-Anne Bangham Congratulations to soprano Marlena Devoe and soprano Verity Wingate who were both presented with Leonard Ingrams Awards last week, on the last night of the 2018 Garsington Opera season. These awards honour the memory of Garsington Opera’s founder Leonard Ingrams, to ensure the continuity of his vision and support, encourage and nurture the best young artists involved in the creative process of bringing opera to the stage. Also presented with awards were tenor Robert Forrest, receiving the Helen Clarke Award, and mezzo-soprano Hollie-Anne Bangham, receiving the Simon Sandbach Award.All four singers were part of Garsington Opera's 2018 Alvarez Young Artists’ Programme, which provides training and performance opportunities with the company, and this year, with singers on the programme taking on small roles and understudying major roles. This year a full performance of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte was sung by the understudies for a […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-02-26 04:28:39
Cantata Singers is among several Boston-based ensembles to have undertaken J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) this season, with even more performances to come. This epidemic has resulted in a new type of marathoner, one who excitedly discusses the number of performances he has heard prior to current one while comparing notes about those previous outings. And why not? The monumental Mass is Bach’s opus ultimum—at once a compendium of his life as a church musician, a summary of his musical style, and a deeply-felt devotional permeated with Lutheran symbolism. This season’s opportunity to hear, compare, and contrast different versions is extraordinary. Friday’s Cantata Singers’ Jordan Hall traversal of Bach’s great Mass with understanding and intelligence, will certainly rank among the loftiest examples. * Bach’s Mass can be roughly divided into four independent parts that he composed throughout his lifetime; they were performed together for the first […]
2015-07-07 21:10:55
A Samoan-Kiwi opera singer will perform New Zealand's national anthem at the big showdown at Apia Park today. Soprano Marlena Ott Devoe will take to the stage this afternoon to pay tribute to the country of her birth.
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