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2021-06-11 12:13:01
Re-opening with an expanded season and its own entrance: Opera North's Howard Assembly Room
The Howard Assembly Room (Photo Justin Slee) Opera North's Howard Assembly Room has been doubly closed (if that makes any sense). Not only were the venue's doors shut because of the present restrictions, but Opera North's £18M redevelopment campaign Music Works closed the whole building. But Music Works nears completion and the Howard Assembly Room reopens in October 2021 complete with its own front door!The opening weekend of the season 9-10 October 2021 has an American feel to complement Opera North and Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Bernstein double bill (Trouble in Tahiti and dances from West Side Story) at the Grand Theatre, so there are Tiger Lilies in their exploration of Cole Porter's songs, Love for Sale, and baritone Quirijn de Lang and mezzo-soprano Sandra Piques Eddy (who sing the leading roles in Opera North's production of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti) will be joined by principal guest conductor Anthony Hermus and members […]
2020-02-21 10:32:14
Opera North in 2020/21, new opera from Iain Bell and Will Todd, Handel's Alcina and a first Parsifal
[…] Oliver Johnston as Alfredo and Stephen Gadd as Germont [we caught Stephen Gadd as Germont at Opera Holland Park in 2018, see my review]. Jonathan Webb and Manoj Kamps share the conducting honours. Matthew Eberhardt's production of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti [first seen in the Little Greats season in 2017, see my review, and Eberhardt directed Opera North's recent production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene, see my review] returns with Quirijn de Lang and Sandra Piques Eddy, and will be paired with a new dance version of Bernstein's West Side Story Symphonic Dances created by choreographer Aletta Collins with Phoenix Dance Company. Jonathan Heyward conducts both.The Spring 2021 season is completed with a revival of Aletta Collins's production of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West with Magdalena Molendowska [who sang Katerina in Martinu's The Greek Passion last year, see my review], Eric Greene and Rafael Rojas, conducted by Paul Nilon. […]
2017-05-01 20:41:41
DVD of the Month: Bizet’s Carmen
Carmen, as an opera that is sure to please audiences, keeps setting records. And so, it is again the DVD of the Month at My Classical Notes. Bizet: Carmen Performed by Elina Garanča (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Escamillo), Barbara Frittoli (Micaela), Keith Miller (Zuniga), Elizabeth Caballero (Frasquita), Sandra Piques Eddy (Mercedes), Earle Patriarco (Dancaire), Keith Jameson (Remandado), Trevor Scheunemann (Morales), with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting. After her triumphant success as Carmen in Riga, London, and Munich, Elîna Garanča, “the Carmen of our day” (News, Austria), took the Met by storm when this filmed. Every generation has its “go to” Carmen. And currently it is enriched by the performances of Elîna Garanča. The Wiener Zeitung said it all when it observed of Garanča’s Carmen that “the role and the singer are perfectly matched”. This production was also seen at the Royal […]
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2016-09-13 00:14:58
Trilogy Thrills, Madame White Snake Still Shines
[…] that Worth was feeling under the weather, but was going to try to make it through the show. Had his sickness not been mentioned, it would not have been noticed, as he delivered a solid performance. Tantsits’s high soaring tenor combined lovingly with Biller during Madame White Snake’s beautiful duet writing. In the last of the triptych, Burchett’s emotionally honest performance of Ming and the personified Gilgamesh created unquestionable connections to his audience. Mezzo-soprano Sandra Piques Eddy (the Monk’s wife in Naga) and soprano Heather Buck (Ku, Ming’s wife in Gilgamesh) both conveyed Jacobs’s message of both the joy and pain of motherhood. Eddy, in the midst of a swirling psychological quasi-dream sequence, offered a tender and heart-wrenching moment in her rich tone. Buck later made us feel the joy of her character that waited so long to be with child—the love for the unborn was in each note—into singing […]
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