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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
[…] Sky Arts Award shortly after its première. Now with this second (and welcome) revival, opening English National Opera’s 2023/24 season, conducted by Martyn Brabbins (ENO’s musical director), the role of Peter Grimes fell to British tenor, John Findon (replacing Gwyn Hughes Jones due to illness) plunging himself wholeheartedly into this lonesome and anguished character in a telling and surefooted performance, with Elizabeth Llewellyn as Ellen Orford, and Simon Bailey as Captain Balstrode.Britten: Peter Grimes - Rudy Williams, Elizabeth Llewellyn - English National Opera (Photo: Tom Bowles)And the anguished cry of Peter Grimes ‘I hear those voices that will not be drowned’ - deeply etched in Maggi Hambling’s 2003 sculpture Scallop on Aldeburgh’s north beach - penned by Montagu Slater whose libretto derives from George Crabbe’s 1810 poem The Borough and heard in the passage ‘Go there!’ (act 2, scene 2) is a lovely and inviting aria and thoughtfully sung with […]
2023-09-20 18:16:00
San Francisco Opera Opening Concert
Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto AlagnaSFO opening night concertPhoto: Cory Weaver/San Francisco OperaStarting in 2021, San Francisco Opera switched from programming an opera for opening night to programming a concert. The last two years were great; 2021 featured the dynamic duo of Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Jamie Barton in a richly varied and delightful program; last year featured a bunch of different singers doing their thing, mostly marvelously. This year, we got returning soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and, in what Matthew Shilvock termed "a long overdue debut", Kurzak's husband, tenor Roberto Alagna.Alagna, you might or might not know, has been making headlines since the mid-1990s: the tragedy of his first wife's early death, leaving him a widower with a small daughter; his romance with soprano Angela Gheorghiu and their marriage on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera house, with officiant Rudy Giuliani, back in the days when Giuliani was hated for fewer reasons than now; the tempestuous […]
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