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A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] moved to Mahler. First, Poulenc's Deux Poemes de Louis Aragon; 'C' was quite interior but offset with vibrant tone, whilst the chattering of 'Fetes Galantges' was vivid. Mahler's Liebst du um Schoenheit was concentrated and meaningful, really about the text.Biqing Zhang (soprano) and Yongqiu Yuan (piano) began with Richard Strauss and then moved to Zhang's native China. In Strauss' Schlagenherzen, Zhang brought real charm and character to the song, really filling the stage with her delightful presence. Zhou Yi's Chaitoufeng felt quite French in style, flowing and touching with an elaborately ornamented vocal line. Finally, Thomas McGowan (baritone) and Benjamin Collyer (piano) in Schubert and Warlock. McGowan brought lovely dark tone to Schubert's Nachtstück, concentrated and thoughtful, he really inhabited the song. Then a lovely swaggering account of Peter Warlock's Yarmouth Fair, with McGowan relishing the story telling.This was an impressive 90 minutes. Not every performer felt a natural on the recital stage, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-25 20:45:39
Atmospheric But Not Dreary
[…] and since it’s a semi-staged production, it’s not got the clarity from tons of scenery. The story’s very convoluted, but it’s an extravagant one told rather quickly. So I just thought the best chance of really understanding it was to have the libretto which includes detailed stage directions. ***So, tell us a little bit about the lead singer Peter Cousins. I worked with Peter 15 years ago when I conducted Cerise Jacobs’s production of Zhou Long’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Madame White Snake . We stayed in touch over the years and I tried to get him in for a couple things here and there, but it never worked out until now. The opera demands a specific kind of voice. It’s very high and has lots of notes. The tenor in the original production almost melted down a couple days before the opening because it’s so vocally demanding. The very […]
2023-10-13 23:11:00
[…] the pandemic. My personal hope is for I Vespri Siciliani / Les Vepres Sicilienne, which I've never seen.Puccini, La Boheme. At the opening night gala for 2022-23, Matthew Shilvock slipped in the news that Pene Pati would be singing Rodolfo here soon. Pati is singing Nemorino in 23-24, so maybe next year.Samson et Dalilah, Brandon Jovanovich as Samson. Given when I heard about this, maybe in 2023-24 or the season after. Obviously not in 2023-24.Madame White Snake, by Zhou Long. A friend spotted "this will be done at SFO in 2023" in the composer's bio in a San Francisco Symphony program. I asked SFO about it and the response was "San Francisco Opera has not made any announcement about this." Well, I knew that, and would bet that the composer's agent broke the usual restrictions on premature announcements and also that various people at SFO are now banging the walls or have their […]
2023-10-05 15:24:17
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