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2024-03-25 15:26:57
Susan Graham will lead a four-performance run of A Little Night Music at Lincoln Center in June. The post appeared first on parterre box.
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-03-22 14:09:41
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonYorke Dance Project celebrate Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Bella Lewitzky in a mixed bill that offers a valuable lessonIf the title of this mixed bill from Yorke Dance Project brings to mind sunshine and feelgood vibes, stop right there. To mark the 25th anniversary of her company, Yolande Yorke-Edgell has collated a programme celebrating female dance pioneers who lived in California (as the British artistic director used to) and it’s not exactly sunny: the tragic life of Isadora Duncan, the white-hot power of Martha Graham, the strong geometry of Bella Lewitzky, and a piece of Yorke-Edgell’s own that feeds on the spirit of all three. Surfin’ USA it ain’t.It is an insight into modern dance history, which started with the spirited, passionate Duncan at the turn of the 20th century. She threw off the shackles of classical dance, restrictive fashions and social expectations to pursue […]
2024-03-21 10:16:00
The Queen of Spades, Deutsche Oper, 20 March 2024
[…] Children’s commander – Sofia Kaspruk Little Hermann – Aleksandr Sher Little Lisa – Alma Kraushaar Stage piano – Jisu Park Old servant – Wolfgang SiebnerDirector – Sam BrownDesigner – Stuart NunnChoreography – Ron HowellVideo – Martin EidenbergerLighting – Linus FellbornAssistant directors – Constanze Weidknecht, Silke SenseDramaturgy – Konstantin ParnianChildren’s Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (director: Christian Lindhorst)Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (director: Jeremy Bines)Statisterie, and Opernballet of the Deutsche OperSebastian Weigle (conductor) The late Graham Vick was to have directed this new production of The Queen of Spades for the Deutsche Oper. According to the cast list, Vick laid down the principles for the production, but his successor Sam Brown, charged with bringing the project to completion, alongside designer Stuart Nunn and choreographer (and Vick’s widower) Ron Howell, will necessarily have brought much that his own to the piece. As he says in an interview, ‘I knew that the […]
2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] the organs at Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral and the Royal Albert Hall. But Downes was something of an outsider, when the musical establishment was conservative; Downes was not interested in the tradition of the organ as emulating an orchestra. Whilst Downes' approach was very forward-looking, he used techniques and philosophies from organ building from 200 years previously. At the time, the organ establishment was very dismissive of these 'primitive' organ-building techniques. James McVinnie (Photo: Graham Lacadao)However, James emphasises that the organ does speak with its own voice and the instrument was something of a shot in the dark for Harrison & Harrison who were responsible for building it. It is important to understand the context behind the building of the instrument and indeed the hall itself. Post-war Britain was still suffering from rationing and Londoners were living with the destruction wrought by the Blitz. The hall and the organ […]
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