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2023-09-20 06:51:00
Why the wait? Ethel Smyth's first major success, Der Wald, finally receives its premiere recording in a terrific account from John Andrews and BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ethel Smyth: Der Wald; Natalya Romaniw, Claire Barnett-Jones, Robert Murray, Andrew Shaw, Morgan Pearse, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Andrews; Resonus ClassicsEthel Smyth's first major success receives its premiere recording, revealing a striking piece of late-Romanticism in a terrific and wonderfully empathetic performanceWhen the guns began to roar and the armies march at the beginning of World War I, it marked a significant divide in Ethel Smyth's career. German-trained, she had remained something of a German composer, performances of her work across Europe being far more common than in England. In 1914, she had major European performances of her operas planned, the two being Der Wald and Strandrecht (the German version of The Wreckers). Whilst she had already started work on her lighter opera, The Boatswain's Mate, you do wonder what Smyth's career would have been like without the interruption of war. Never again would she write large-scale romantic […]
2023-09-14 14:00:15
Romaniw/Barnett-Jones/Murray/Shore/BBCSO/BBC Singers/Andrews(Resonus)Smyth’s opera was the first by a woman to be performed at New York’s Met. One hundred and twenty years later this is its first recording“I feel I must fight for Der Wald because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.” So wrote
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2022-12-17 12:30:20
Royal Opera House; Coliseum, London The sensational Freddie De Tommaso soars alongside Natalya Romaniw in a catch-it-while-you-can Tosca. And ENO’s one-off revival of Britten’s restless coronation opera is a triumphIt has been a long wait. The last time two British singers took the principal roles in Puccini’s
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2022-12-13 16:20:19
Royal Opera House, LondonWith Freddie De Tommaso, Natalya Romaniw and Erwin Schrott in the lead roles this revival of Jonathan Kent’s sure-footed staging of Puccini’s opera is in very good handsFreddie De Tommaso
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