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Royal Opera House Henry the Fowler – Gábor BretzLohengrin – Brandon Jovanovich Elsa – Jennifer Davis Friedrich von Telramund – Craig Colclough Ortrud – Anna Smirnova King’s Herald – Derek Welton Brabantian Nobles (‘Four Followers of Telramund’) – Elgan Llŷr Thomas, Thando Mjandana, Matthew Durkan, Thomas D. Hopkinson Pages (‘Four Women at the Wedding’) – Katy Batho, Deborah Peake-Jones, Renata Skarelyte, Louise Armit Gottfried – Alfie Davis David Alden (director) Peter Relton (revival director) Paul Steinberg (set designs) Gideon Davey (costumes) Adam Silverman (lighting) Tal Rosner (video) Maxine Braham (movement) Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Jakub Hrůša (conductor) Considering the first night of David Alden’s (then) new production of Lohengrin in 2018, I found ‘a conceptual weakness at ... [its] heart. I suspect it can be remedied: if a shell, it is a fine shell. It will not, however, remedy itself.’ Rather […]
2020-07-05 11:31:53
A Life On-Line: Dreaming of the Silver Screen in Montpellier, Weber's Euryanthe in Vienna, Tippett's The Ice Break in Birmingham,
[…] Night's Dream in Montpellier (Photo Mark Ginot) In November 2019 I had a more enjoyable interview with counter-tenor James Hall, one on of the things he mentioned was Ted Huffman's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream which debuted in Montpellier last year and travelled to the Deutsche Oper, Berlin this January. We caught up with the production from Montpellier on OperaVision. James Hall & Florie Valiquette were Oberon and Tytania, Thomas Atkins, Matthew Durkan, Roxana Constantinescu, Marie-Adeline Henry were the Lovers, Dominic Barberi, Nicholas Crawley, Paul Curievici, Daniel Grice, Colin Judson and Nicholas Merryweather were the mechanicals with Richard Wiegold and Polly Leech as the Theseus and Hippolyta and the American actor Nicholas Bruder as Puck. Tito Muñoz conducted. Impressively, the cast were not all Anglophone, nor presumably were the boys of the Chœur Opéra Junior - Classe Opéra. Huffman's production was very stylish, with minimal set. The […]
2020-03-07 08:53:58
Bringing the House Down: bass Brindley Sherratt on the gala at Glyndebourne for The Meath
[…] the gala will be pitched somewhat on the lighter side with popular arias and duets alongside Gilbert and Sullivan and songs from the shows.The Meath Choir, made up of people who live there, will be performing alongside Godalming Jazz Choir and the evening will end with RVW's Serenade to Music where the sixteen soloists will be the distinguished singers from the evening plus four young singers – Katie Stevenson (mezzo soprano), William Morgan (tenor), Matthew Durkan (baritone) and Stephanie Wake-Edwards (mezzo soprano) - conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. The accompanists will be Matthew Fletcher and Caroline Jaya-Ratnam, and John Suchet will be presenting the evening.The Meath is based at a large Victorian mansion near Godalmining, now surrounded by other more modern houses in 12 acres of land, which provide a residential home for people with epilepsy (there are 65 residents). [You can read more about the charity's fascinating, long history on […]
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2019-04-01 13:00:07
The Artist Whose Dying Wish Turned Her Neighbors Into Curators
Life-altering: “It was a week after the funeral of textile artist and teacher Joan Charnley, who died, at 84, in the summer of 2016, that her solicitor got in touch with her neighbours, Julian Bovis and Nigel Durkan, to tell them she had left them her house – a tall, listed Georgian building in Uppermill, […]
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