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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
[…] looked the part of Grimes through and through and suspiciously alert to all the hypocrites and gossips of the Borough he shuns. And one of the big scenes of the opera centres on Auntie, landlady of The Boar, the role so admirably sung by mezzo-soprano and ENO favourite, Christine Rice, looking like a Prince Orlofsky character dressed in pin-striped trousers holding court in the best tradition of any landlady while her two nieces (sopranos Cleo Lee-McGowan and Ava Dodd) prove a good attraction at the pub clutching rag-dolls, playing street games and enjoying the attention being paid to them by some of the ‘regulars’. A compelling performance came from another well-loved British mezzo-soprano, Anne Marie Owens, as the drug-taking Mrs Sedley, who sinks greatly beneath her station to get her fix but always ready (and at the forefront) to condemn Grimes for no apparent reason other than suspicion. In fact, […]
2022-03-04 09:47:24
Urban dystopia: Guildhall School's double bill of Judith Weir's Miss Fortune and Menotti's The Telephone
[…] revival since 2012, Guildhall School of Music and Drama is presenting Judith Weir's Miss Fortune at their Silk Street Theatre in a production directed by Martin Lloyd-Evans, with designs by Anna Reid, and conducted by Dominic Wheeler, in a double bill with Menotti's The Telephone. Both works were double cast and we caught the performance on Wednesday 2 March 2022 with Ellie Neate and Jack Holton in The Telephone, and Jacob Harrison, Laura Fleur, Cleo Lee McGowan, Kieron-Connor Valentine, Innocent Masuku, Amy Holyland, and Jonathan Eyers in Miss Fortune Miss Fortune is based on a Sicilian folk tale, and Weir's own libretto abstracts the story and creates a sort of moral fable that rather reminded me of Georg Kaiser's From Morning to Midnight and David Sawer's brave attempt to turn it into an opera in 2001 at English National Opera. Again we have a protagonist, Tina, who goes through a series of […]
2021-04-22 07:54:58
Muzio Clementi, Mystery Plays, and late-night Bach: Lichfield Festival's lively 2021 programme
[…] (in slimmed down form) will be playing Bach, Stravinsky and Rameau under its principal conductor Ryan Bancroft (the third year of the orchestra's residency at the festival), and violinist Rachel Podger will be giving an evening of late-night Bach. The story of Lichfield resident, the 19th century composer, pianist and instrument maker Muzio Clementi, is told through words and music, played on an original Clementi square piano. Also on the menu is flamenco, Alastair McGowan's The Piano Show, as well as four artists in residence Chloe Hanslip (violin), Danny Driver (piano), Jessica Walker (writer/singer) and Joseph Atkins (composer/piano), and daily showcases for the festival's Young Artists. Full details from the Lichfield Festival website.
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