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From Melissa to Musetta: I chat to Irish soprano Anna Devin about the joy of singing with Irish National Opera, returning to Puccini, having a Donizetti moment and her love of Baroque opera
[…] of Mimi as one of their major studies, which meant that Anna came to sing extracts from the role of Musetta in opera scenes, and she enjoyed returning to the role again. From the outset, however, the project at Irish National Opera was beset with difficulties because of the pandemic. Planned as a staging of Puccini's La Boheme it became a live-streamed concert (from Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin on 13 March 2021) conducted by Sergio Alapont with a recording. [Read the review of the original concert in the Arts Review] But for a number of months, right up until she left home, it still was not clear whether the project would go ahead. And when she arrived in Ireland, Anna had, of course, to isolate for 10 days. To make matters more complex for her, she had been on maternity leave during the initial part of the pandemic and this […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-06-20 16:32:52
Biz news: Two young sticks get an agent
The Spaniard conductor Sergio Alapont has signed with Hazard Chase in Cambridge. And London agency RayfieldAllied has taken on Dane Lam, an Australian ex-Masur assistant.
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CNY Café Momus
2014-11-12 23:17:36
2014 Wexford Festival Opera
[…] Got Rhythm number where she includes every possible prop you can think of (and several that you can’t). A simple basketball figures especially persistently and prominently. And, well, if every single line of text does not ring true (estranged husband Carlino’s saying of the hall, “This is my house” for example), well — who cares when we are having so much damn fun? The musical preparation and execution could not have been better, with Sergio Alapont leading an assured, propulsive, ebullient reading that cascaded off the page and tickled the ear with richly detailed, incisive comic force. Maestro Alapont’s consummate skill was that he could turn on a dime and establish sudden new tempi en masse with the balancing skill of an air traffic controller. Also, he was highly adept at partnering his soloists whether in limpid moments of respite from the general madness, in rapid flights of coloratura, or […]
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