Rosalind Elias News
American mezzo-soprano
- mezzo-soprano
- United States of America
- opera singer, singer
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2024-04-24
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2024-03-26 08:31:00
Worcester 2024: Three Choirs Festival releases full festival line-up along with announcing a new composer development scheme
[…] alongside Elgar's The Kingdom, music commemorating 100 years since Stanford's death, Holst's early rarity The Cloud Messenger, premieres of two new festival commissions from Nathan James Dearden and Paul Mealor, and music inspired by the natural world including Bob Chilcott's The Angry Planet, and Sarah Kirkland Snyder's Mass for the Endangered, there is a packed daytime programme, including the Armonico Consort in The Forgotten Scarlatti, tributes to Steve Martland from the Heath Quartet and GBSR Duo, the Elias Quartet and Robert Plane, and a visit from The Symphonic Brass of London.The festival features a total of 26 premieres, including performances of the New Voices Academy's Springboard composer works, which will be repeated at next year's Spitalfields Music Festival. Full details from the festival website.
2024-03-14 02:27:48
Mezzo-soprano Rosalind Elias had a long, leading career in opera on the international scene. She was
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-10 17:09:52
Texts Meet Tones: Origins and Meanings
Although Elias Dagher and I started working on the Boston Text and Tone Festival last summer, the four days of concerts running from January 18th-21st will reflect and celebrate years of close professional relationships, new encounters, old friendships, and diverse musical perspectives. The concerts will feature 12 performers, 21 composers, and 25 poets. Details and tickets HERE. Our friendship began while we were studying solo piano repertoire during our time at NEC. As we started working more and more with singers in text-based music making, we experienced a new kind of expressive mixture, the wild world where openness and directness meet. The “abstract” world of music itself (open-ended, suggestive, spiritual) met the “literal” world of words (direct, structured, narrative). Or is it the other way around? Perhaps music is more literal and poetry more abstract! Whatever the case, there are infinite possibilities whenever these universes collide. And thanks to countless poets […]
2023-10-30 07:35:00
This opera, so dependent on the wedding of text and music, is a natural candidate for Opera-in-English (I believe one of the first recordings of the work, with Jerome Hines and Rosalind Elias, was in English). The argument that Bartók carefully composed it to match the rises and falls of Hungarian remains valid, but understanding […]
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