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2020-10-29 09:59:45
Amor's aria 'Gli sguardi trattieni' from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, an exclusive preview of a new live recording from Slovenia of the Vienna version of the opera. Amor is sung by Slovenian soprano Nika Gorič, Orfeo is sung by the Slovenian mezzo-soprano Barbara Kozelj and Eurydice by Belgian soprano Liesbeth Devos, with Orchestra matutina, conductor Matej Šarc. There are further previews on YouTube, of the overture [YouTube] and Orfeo and Eurydice's duet 'Vieni, appaga il tuo consorte!' [YouTube] The performance is based on a live concert given in Ljubljana in September in the Slovenian Philharmonic hall. The orchestra is Slovenian and it specialises in music from the Baroque and Classical eras. Its name is inspired by Bach's cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern as rehearsals and performances tend to be in the morning. Barbara Kozelj's performances have included Penelope in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with the Academy of […]
2018-06-13 11:48:00
Capriccio, Garsington Opera, 9 June 2018
Garsington Opera House, Wormsley Images: Johan PerssonAndrew Shore (La Roche), William Dazeeley (Count), Hanna Hipp (Clairon), Miah Persson (Countess), Benjamin Bevan (Major-Domo) Flamand – Sam Furness Olivier – Gavan Ring La Roche – Andrew Shore Countess Madeleine – Miah Persson Count – William Dazeley Clairon – Hanna Hipp Major-Domo – Benjamin Bevan Italian Soprano – Nika Gorič Italian Tenor – Caspar Singh Servants – Richard Bignall, Dominic Bowe, Robert Forrest, Andrew Hamilton, Emanuel Heitz, Jack Lawrence-Jones, David Lynn, Kieran Rayner Monsieur Taupe – Graham Clark Young Dabicer – Lowri Shone Tim Albery (director) Tobias Hoheisel (designs) Malcolm Rippeth (lighting) Laïla Diallo (choreography) Garsington Opera Orchestra Douglas Boyd (conductor) Who among the younger generation can really imagine a great city like Munich in total darkness, or theatre-goers picking their way through the blacked-out street with the aid of small torches giving off a […]
2018-06-11 08:44:30
A little bit of magic: Miah Persson in Richard Strauss's Capriccio at Garsington
Richard Strauss: Capriccio - Gavan Ring, Miah Persson, Sam Furness, Caspar Singh, Nika Gorič, Hanna Hipp, William Dazeley, Andrew Shore - Garsington Opera - (Photo Johan Persson) Strauss Capriccio; Miah Persson, Sam Furness, Gavan Ring, Andrew Shore, William Dazeley, Hanna Hipp, dir: Tim Albery, cond: Douglas Boyd; Garsington Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 June 2018 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) A strong cast and a radiant account of the title role show that music and art do matter in Richard Strauss's final opera Miah PerssonGarsington Opera (Photo Johan Persson) Tim Albery's production of Richard Strauss' Capriccio, a collaboration between Santa Fe Opera and Garsington Opera, debuted in Santa Fe in 2016 [see my review], and it has now reached Garsington with an entirely new cast and conductor. We caught the 4th performance on Saturday 9 June 2018; Douglas Boyd conducted with Miah […]
2017-01-19 17:00:00
[…] to be able to allowed into consideration. After her brief, unhappy marriage ended, Herbert returned to England, bit not to London and spent the rest of her life in rekativeobscurity. Fortunately her daughter, the novelist Claire Tomalin preserved her manuscripts. In 2008, Herbert's songs were recorded by James Gilchrist, Ailish Tynan and David Owen Norris. This is the CD to get, from which I've taken the biographical information. The Academy Song Circle (Nika Gorič, Katie Stevenson, Nicholas Mogg, Michael Mofidian, Yi-shing Cheng and Michael Pandya) are performing a selection of Herbert's songs including the lovely How Beautiful is the Night,(1918) to a poem by Southey. and the set of Childrens Songs which Herbert wrote in 1938, when Herbert's own children were young. Playful songs, setting a popular contemporary poem : songs about tadpoles, Jack Spratt, gypsies. Escapism, or the multitasking of a mother who wanted […]
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