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2024-03-04 07:33:00
Musical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progess - Act Three, scene one: the graveyardFrederick Jones, Jerome Knox - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith)Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress: Frederick Jones/Brenton Spiteri, Nazan Fikret, Jerome Knox, Trevor Eliot Bowes, Lauren Young, director: Polly Graham, conductor Jack Sheen; English Touring Opera at Hackney EmpireReviewed 2 March 2024A refreshing lack of preconceived ideas but visually confusing production offset by strong musical performances including Brenton Spiteri taking over the role of Tom with aplomb part way throughEnglish Touring Opera's Spring tour continued with the launch of Polly Graham's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Hackney Empire on 2 March 2024, with Jack Sheen conducting. Frederick Jones was singing Tom Rakewell, but before the performance it was announced that Jones had recently returned after illness, and after the Act One the role was sung from the side of the stage by Brenton Spiteri (who is playing Edmondo […]
2024-02-16 08:09:00
As Puccini's Manon Lescaut opens English Touring Opera's Spring tour, I chat to soprano Jenny Stafford who sings the title role in Jude Christian's new production
[…] a workshop. In Manon Lescaut, Jenny will be singing alongside Gareth Dafydd Morris as Des Grieux. She and Gareth have known each other a long time, as far back as the time they would singing little sections of La Traviata together in pubs to advertise Perroni. They worked together last year and so it is nice to work with an old friend again. Jenny also knows other singers in the tour, having worked last year with Nazan Fikret (who sings Anne Trulove in Stravinsky's The Rakes Progress), so it feels like working with a bunch of friends.They will be doing 19 performances of Manon Lescaut all told, with a whole variety of venues. The length of the tour means that conductor Gerry Cornelius feels that they will be able to take some risks with the dynamics, showing the vulnerable side to the characters.Jenny has a long experience with English Touring Opera, she started off […]
2023-10-08 09:35:00
Musical pleasure: strong & stylish performances from a young cast in English Touring Opera's new production of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Rossini: Cinderella - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith)Rossini: Cinderella (La Cenerentola); Esme Bronwen-Smith, Joseph Doody, Edmund Danon, Arshak Kuzikyan, Nazan Fikret, Lauren Young, Edward Hawkins, director: Jenny Ogilvie, conductor: Naomi Woo; English Touring Opera at the Hackney EmpireAn enviable young cast in a stylish, musical account of Rossini's opera buffa that balances the serious and the comicThe second opera in English Touring Opera's (ETO) Spring season is Rossini's Cinderella, contrasting in style and genre from Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea but both pieces have strong women who come out on top, an intriguing link. Rossini's Cinderella opened at the Hackney Empire on Saturday 7 October 2023 in a production directed by Jenny Ogilvie and conducted by Naomi Woo. Esme Bronwen-Smith was Cinderella with Joseph Doody as Ramiro, Edward Hawkins as Alidoro, Nazan Fikret and Lauren Young as Clorinda and Tisbe, Edmund Danon as Dandini and Arshak Kuzikyan as Don Magnifico. Designs were by Basia Binkowska.Having […]
2020-11-28 09:09:27
From Handel's contemporaries to a forgotten Malcolm Arnold opera: I chat to conductor John Andrews about reviving neglected music
[…] Carby, Fiona Kimm, Ed Lyon, Mark Wilde, Graeme Broadbent, BBC Concert Orchestra, John AndrewsResonus Classics - see my reviewAvailable from Amazon, and from Hive.co.uk. John Andrews on Planet Hugill: Arthur Sullivan: Haddon Hall - Ed Lyon, Henry Waddington, Adrian Thompson, Ben McAteer, Donald Maxwell, Sarah Tynan, Fiona Kimm, Angela Simkin, BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andrews; Dutton Epoch - see my review Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Lucy Hall, Nazan Fikret, John-Colyn Gyeantey, Richard Pinkstone, Matthew Stiff, Alex Andreou, dir: Stephen Medcalf, cond: John Andrews; English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire - see my review Wolf-Ferrari: Susanna's Secret - Clare Presland, Richard Burkhard, John Savurnin, dir: John Wilkie, cond: John Andrews; Opera Holland Park - see my review Thomas Arne: The Judgement of Paris - Mary Bevan, Susanna Fairbairn, Gillian Ramm, Ed Lyon, Anthony Gregory, the Brook Street Band, John Andrews; Dutton Epoch […]
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