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2024-02-20 10:00:00
From Harald en Italie to Le prophète in New York: 2024 Bard Summerscape focuses on Berlioz and his world
Fisher Center at Bard College (Photo: Peter Aaron '68/Esto) The Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in the Hudson Valley, New York City, presents an annual Summerscape festival and this year there are eight weeks of opera, theatre, dance and a music festival from 20 June to 18 August 2024. The theme of the music festival is Berlioz and His World. Alongside wide-ranging concerts of music by Berlioz and his contemporaries, there is a rare staging of Meyerbeer's Le prophète (26 July to 4 August) directed by Christian Räth, with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein and featuring Robert Watson (Siegmund in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of Die Walküre at the Staatsoper, Berlin) in the title role plus Jennifer Feinstein as Fidès. Meyerbeer's Le prophète featured at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918 as a vehicle for Enrico Caruso, and returned in 1977 with James McCracken and Marilyn Horne, since then I am […]
2023-11-20 07:34:00
Singing in the rain: London Song Festival celebrates the bi-centenary of the Mackintosh
[…] and gentle.The first half ended with Whatever the Weather. Ireland's Weathers was engaging with Atkinson seeming to chat to us over the delightfully lilting piano. Elizabeth Maconchy's The Wind and the Rain was a lovely discovery. Spiky and jazzy, this was engagingly chatty with Taylor's performance bringing out the work's serious, intent nature and rather fierce at the end. Neither folksy nor particularly Merrie England, certainly not like the typical 20th century English composers' settings of the Bard.Part two began with The Joy of Rain; a vigorous account of Schumann's Lust der Sturmnacht with Atkinson combining strong words with vibrant tone, then Chausson's La pluie with Taylor bringing out the music's underlying passion, then they continued in intimate, confiding manner with Roussel's Le jardin mouille, which featured the delicate patter of rain in the piano.Sorrow and Loss in the Rain began with Brahms' Nachklang where Taylor combined vibrant tone with a sense of melancholy. The first […]
2023-10-23 13:24:00
Fragments of Experience: new film exploring William Blake featuring music by Mark Bowler from Dan Norman's Positive Note
Dan Norman's Positive Note has a new film out on 10 November 2023. Dan Norman and Mark Bowler have collaborated on Fragments of Experience. The film brings together Blake's own texts and imagery with original music and cutting edge AI animation by Mark Bowler, 2D animation by Harrison Fleming, and live performance footage featuring soprano Marianna Suri, conducted by Olivia Clarke.The project is centred around Blake’s poems The Fly, The Sick Rose and The Voice of the Ancient Bard with excerpts from Introduction to Songs of Experience and Earth’s Answer, woven together to create a strong ecological metanarrative — Blake’s warning cry to us across the centuries. The Fly challenges us to question our relationship with nature, The Sick Rose presents themes of decay and corruption, and finally we are called to action in The Voice of the Ancient Bard.Mark Bowler composed original music for Fragments of Experience for a soprano and […]
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