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2024-03-05 09:02:00
A dynamic performance where singers & instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers: Scherzo Ensemble presents a danced version of Haydn's The Creation
A new danced version of Haydn's The Creation is being presented at New Hall Winchester and St John's Smith Square on 6 and 7 April 2024 by Scherzo Ensemble, and we are we are promised a dynamic performance where singers and instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers!Matthew O'Keeffe conducts the Orpheus Sinfonia with soloists Anna Gregg and Sam Harris as Gabriel and Uriel, and Michael Temporal Darell and Caroline Blair as Adam and Eve. The staging is a collaboration with Welsh choreographer Osian Meilir Jones (currently artistic associate of the National Dance Company of Wales), and designer Jennifer GregoryScherzo Ensemble is a professional development platform for emerging singers, best known for managing Longhope Opera in Hampshire where they are performing Donizetti's Don Pasquale on 6 and 7 July 2024, (see the ensemble's website) Further information on Haydn's The Creation from TicketSource (Winchester) and St John's Smith Square's website,
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-04 02:24:46
Carolyn Abbate opens “In Search of Opera” (2001) linking the genre of opera with the butchery that severs Orpheus’ voice from his dismembered body. Sarah Ruhl, in her 2003 play “Eurydice,” and now Matthew Aucoin in his operatic setting of her text, cleave Eurydice from Orpheus, voice from instrumental music, and memory from body. The [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-03-01 09:15:00
Shortlisted in two categories of next week's Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, Jasdeep Singh Degun has released a new single, Lament
Leeds-based sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun has been shortlisted in two categories of the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards (which are announced on 5 March), for Best Instrumentalist and Best Large-Scale Composition (for Orpheus his cross-genre Monteverdi piece with Opera North). Ahead of this, he has released a new single, Lament, a new arrangement of one of the pieces from Orpheus.Originally sung by the chorus and orchestra lamenting the death of Eurydice, Lament is based on a the raag Sindhi Bhairavi - usually sung/played in a more semi-classical style such as thumri or ghazal - that deals "with topics of spiritual and romantic love and may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss, or separation from the beloved, and the beauty of love in spite of that pain."For the new single, Jasdeep has stripped back Lament for chamber ensemble, featuring a new string arrangement by cellist […]
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