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Austrian singer, opera singer and music educator
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2020-12-04 19:34:52
The French band return with their distinctive sound and surprise guests
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2020-02-02 15:00:46
Gerald Barry’s new opera based on Alice in Wonderland is as breathless and surreal as Carroll’s novel. The conductor explains how Ode to Joy, a Russian Jabberwocky and wind machines all make perfect nonsense. • Photo essay: Behind the scenes at Alice’s Adventures in the Under Ground Gerald Barry’s music inhabits the same kind of space that Lewis Carroll’s Alice books do. Carroll might not have put it like this (he was writing pre-Freud), but in his books and their anarchic free-association, he let his id – his subconscious – run riot. The stories are full of surreal combinations of everyday things, from jam tarts to a baby that turns into a pig, from talking playing cards to living chess pieces. There are riddles, poems, parodies, wordplay and plain nonsense. There’s a darkness and exhilarating danger about it all because anything can happen. Barry’s music is like this too. His […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2020-01-31 07:00:38
How do you bring Lewis Carroll’s surreally anarchic books to musical life? Photographer Tristram Kenton went to watch the Royal Opera House’s fast and furious new production of Gerald Barry’s opera take shape • Alice’s Adventures Under Ground is at the Royal Opera House, London from 3-9 February Director/designer Antony McDonald during rehearsals for the world premiere of Gerald Barry’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground at London’s Royal Opera House Top left: Jennifer France; top right: Joshua Bloom as Humpty Dumpty. He shares the role with Alan Ewing; middle: The Mock Turtle; bottom: McDonald gives notes Top: the Oysters, the Walrus and the Carpenter; bottom: Alice (Claudia Boyle) rehearses with the Cook and the Duchess Props and wigs backstage. All were made from scratch by the ROH props crew, even down to a desk complete with fake Victorian ink-stains Top: make-up backstage during one of the very quick changes; bottom: Claudia […]
2018-02-20 07:58:09
Philip Glass's Satyagraha at the London Coliseum
Philip Glass: Satygraha - Toby Spence & ENO Chorus - English National Opera (Photo Donald Cooper) Philip Glass Satyagraha; Clive Bayley, Charlotte Beament, Nicholas Folwell, Stephanie Marshall, Anna-Clare Monk, Andri Björn Róbertsson, Toby Spence, Sarah Pring, Eddie Wade, dir: Phelim McDermott/Julian Crouch, cond: Karen Karnensek; English National Opera at London Coliseum, London Skills Ensemble: Philip Edolls, Janet Etuk, Charlie Folorunsho, Alex Harvey, Nick Haverson, Nesreen Nabil Hussein, Tina Koch, Vic Llewelyn, Charlotte Mooney, Kumar Muniandy, Caroline Partridge, Rob Thirtle Reviewed by Tony Cooper on Feb 14 2018 Star rating: 4.0English National Opera’s stunning production of Philip Glass’ Satyagraha makes a welcome return to St Martin’s Lane Sarah Pring - English National Opera (Photo Donald Cooper) The first performance of this production of Philip Glass's Satyagraha by English National Opera (ENO) (intelligently […]
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