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2023-11-07 09:31:00
Liverpool Philharmonic's new partnership with Barrow-in-Furness
On Saturday 20 January 2024, Domingo Hindoyan will conduct the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 as part of the orchestra's concert at the Forum Theatre, Barrow in Furness. The concert is the opening event in a three-year partnership between the orchestra and Barrow-in-Furness. In collaboration with Westmorland & Furness Council, Cumbria Music Education Hub and the cultural, learning and community partners across Barrow, the project will produce a series of concerts, community events, music-making projects and educational activities, giving more people the opportunity to enjoy live music.There will be the offer of visits and inspirational performances to every primary school in Barrow, co-designed creative residencies with secondary schools, supporting young people as music creators. In addition, Cumbria Music Education Hub and Liverpool Philharmonic will work collaboratively to embed a singing culture in all primary schools and to boost group singing for children and young people across the […]
2023-09-18 09:18:00
Irish National Opera in Éna Brennan's Breathwork and Gounod's Faust plus much more at the Dublin Theatre Festival
[…] project '20 Shots of Opera' which has led to her participation in INO’s artistic development programme. Her new piece, Breathwork with a libretto by David Pountney is an intimate chamber opera lasting around 20 minutes, a statement of horror and protest in response to the destruction of our environment. It is a companion work to a larger composition Hold Your Breath by Éna Brennan and David Pountney which has been commissioned by Bregenzer Festspiele.Gounod's Faust will be directed by Jack Furness [who gave a brilliant, poet reimagining to Dvorak's Rusalka at Garsington last year, see my review], so expect something intriguing and striking, and conducted by Elaine Kelly (the company's resident conductor), with American tenor Duke Kim in the title role, and Irish soprano Jennifer Davis as Marguerite.Elsewhere are the festival Junk Ensemble present Powerful Trouble, Shaune Dunne presents The Solution, a theatrical hybrid mixing dance, theatre and new music, there is a new dance performance […]
2023-05-20 20:09:00
Wozzeck, Royal Opera, 19 May 2023
Royal Opera HouseWozzeck – Christian Gerhaher Marie – Anja Kampe Captain – Peter Hoare Doctor – Brindley Sherratt Margret – Rosie Aldridge Drum Major – Clay Hilley Andres – Sam Furness First Apprentice – Barnaby Rea Second Apprentice – Alex Otterburn The Fool – John Findon Soldier – Lee Hickenbottom Tenor Solo – Andrew Macnair Marie’s Son – Jonah Elijah McGovernDeborah Warner (director)Hyemi Shin (set designs)Nicky Gillibrand (costumes)Adam Silverman (lighting)Kim Brandstrup (choreography)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseAntonio Pappano (conductor)Images: Tristram KentonAndres (Sam Furness), Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher)Thirty years ago, in Sheffield, a teenage schoolboy saw his first opera in the theatre. It was Wozzeck, directed by Deborah Warner for Opera North. Quite an opera with which to begin, you might say, and indeed in many ways it was, yet why would you wish to begin with something that was not ‘quite an opera’? He knew a […]
2022-07-11 06:48:47
Dutch director Annemiek van Elst brings a very different ethos to the comedy of Britten's Albert Herring for St Paul's Opera
[…] this year's Cheltenham Music Festival - interviewUnsung Heroines: Lauren Fagan & Opera Holland Park Young Artists in a celebration of women composers and more - concert reviewAn exciting rediscovery: Mercadante's Il proscritto proves far more than a museum piece in this thrilling revival from Opera Rara - opera reviewAn afternoon delight: Anna Morrisey's inventive production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville at Nevill Holt Opera, in a finely musical performance conducted by Dinis Sousa - opera reviewPoetic drama & real musicality: highly imaginative Rusalka from Jack Furness at Garsington with Natalya Romaniw as a compelling water nymph - opera reviewHome
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