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2024-03-25 09:57:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: Blond Eckbert and Curlew River, plus Unsuk Chin, Judith Weir, Alban Gerhardt and Daniel Pioro as featured artists
The 75th Aldeburgh Festival opens on 7 June and runs until 23 June 2024. The festival features stagings of Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert and Britten's Curlew River, and the festival's featured musicians are composers Judith Weir and Unsuk Chin, violinist Daniel Pioro and cellist Alban Gerhardt.Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert is being staged as a co-production between Britten Pears Arts and English Touring Opera, and the work is directed by Robin Norton-Hale, conducted by Gerry Cornelius with a cast that includes Simon Wallfisch and Aoife Miskelly. Ryan Wigglesworth will conduct the Knussen Chamber Orchestra in the premiere of Weir's The Planet and Wigglesworth also conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Weir's Forest. Soprano Claire Booth performs Weir's solo opera, King Harald's Saga whilst the BBC Singers perform Blue Remembered Hill. The Leonkoro Quartet premiere Weir's second string quartet, The Spaniard, and there are performances of more of Weir's music from pianists Stephen Osborne and Rolf Hind, Trio Boheme, […]
2024-03-04 07:33:00
Musical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
[…] Jerome Knox was Nick Shadow, Trevor Eliot Bowes was Father Trulove, Lauren Young was Baba, Amy J Payne was Mother Goose and Robin Bailey was Sellem. Designs were by April Dalton, lighting by Ben Ormerod and movement by Alex Gotch.Is Stravinsky's opera (his first full-length opera) a pastiche, something new or simply Stravinsky? Much is often made of the self-consciously classical structure that Stravinsky used for the opera, but ETO's programme book quotes conductor Mark Wigglesworth as saying "it isn't neo-anything: it's pure Stravinsky, and Russian Stravinsky, the same person who wrote The Rite of Spring". I have to confess that rather too often the opera's 18th-century setting and this idea of a neo-classical work, perhaps even a pastiche, seem something of a straight-jacket for productions. Glyndebourne's iconic Hockney-designed version is wonderful but is only one approach.Stravinsky: The Rake's Progess - Act One, scene oneFrederick Jones, Nazan Fikret, David Horton, […]
2023-12-19 09:07:00
75th Aldeburgh Festival: Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, Britten's Curlew River, Sumidagawa & more
The plans for next year's Aldeburgh Festival have been announced, and it turns out that 2024 is one of those years full of celebratory numbers. 2024 will be the 75th Aldeburgh Festival, composer Judith Weir's 70th year, 60 years since the premiere of Britten's Curlew River and Roger Wright's last festival after 10 years of being CEO. So, plenty to celebrate then.The festival opens with a new production of Judith Weir's 1994 opera Blond Eckbert, a co-production with English Touring Opera that will be directed by Robin Norton-Hale and conducted by Gerry Cornelius. Judith Weir is one of the festival's featured musicians and there will be performances of her music by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth, pianists Rolf Hind and Steven Osborne, the Nash Ensemble, Aldeburgh Voices, and Tenebrae, the BBC Singers perform her oratorio blue hills beyond blue hills, soprano Clare Booth performs the mini grand opera King Harald's Saga, the […]
2023-12-18 13:09:21
Also in London: Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his new Magnificat at the Barbican
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