Mena Cleary News
Canadian-born American actress and singer
- opera singer
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2024-03-05 07:39:00
Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments - London Handel Players
[…] Adrian Butterfield - director, solo violin, viola, viola d’amore Andreas Helm - solo oboe Rachel Brown - solo flute, recorder Oliver Webber - violin Maxim Del Mar - violin Nicola Cleary - violin Rachel Byrt - viola Gavin Kibble - solo viola da gamba, cello Sarah McMahon - solo cello Jonathan Rees - cello, viola da gamba Cecelia Bruggemeyer - double bass […]
2024-02-29 07:35:00
Music that is vividly alive & vibrant, yet requires concentration & dedication to listen to: Anselm McDonnell's Kraina
Anselm McDonnell: Kraina; Joshua Ellicott, Laura Sinnerton, Dermot Dunne, Rebecca Murphy, Cahal Masterson, Elizabeth Hilliard, Alan Smale, Annette Cleary, Rachel Quinn, Nicole Rourke, Dermot Dunne;Reviewed 26 February 2024New music for voice and instruments tackling the complex and the difficult, creating music that is more than just a song, and pushing performers to emotional and expressive limits.Kraina is a word in Old Polish meaning edge, borderland, or frontier. Belfast-based composer Anselm McDonnell's latest disc, Kraina, is his second album, released on his own label [see my review of Light of Shore, McDonnell's first disc]. The new disc features four works for voice and instruments (I hesitate to call them songs, some are far more substantial than that), all concerned with the edges and crevices around home: depicting people searching for home, caught between homes, or our destructive relationship with our planetary home. The performers are Joshua Ellicott, tenor, Laura Sinnerton, viola, and […]
2023-09-22 06:31:00
A terrific sense of relish: Charles Court Opera's new version of The Mikado delights at the Arcola Theatre
[…] Palmer was the Mikado and Peter Rush (Pish Tush), Robin Bailey was Charles Chauncey (Nanki Poo), Matthew Kellett was Colin Cole (Koko), Matthew Siveter was Hugh Barr (Poo Bah), Alys Roberts was Victoria Plum (Yum Yum), Meriel Cunningham was Milly King (Pitti Sing), Jennifer Clark was Pip Bow (Peep Bow) and Amy J Payne was Katisha, with the accompaniment played on the piano by David Eaton. Designs were by Rachel Szmukler, lighting by Rachel E Cleary and choreography by Damian Czarnecki.Charles Court Opera specialises in performing Gilbert & Sullivan on a small scale, the entire opera was sung by eight people with soloists singing chorus parts too. Such was the skill of the performers and the balanced nature of the cast that, in this studio theatre, you never thought anything was missing. The results were immediately engaging and arresting, the whole cast delivering both Sullivan's musical lines and Gilbert's words […]
2023-05-19 00:05:11
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