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2024-04-05 08:55:00
West Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season
[…] with John-Kristof Bouton, Galina Averina, Carolyn Dobbin, Trystan Llyr Griffiths and Lorena Paz Nieto.An intriguing concert offering is the collaboration between wine-expert Oz Clarke and the Armonico Consort, for an evening devoted to music and gin! There will be Purcell, Handel and Dowland with soprano Eloise Irving and countertenor William Towers, plus Oz Clarke on the history of gin.Stephen Higgins conducts Puccini's Suor Angelica in a production directed by John Ramster, with Jenny Stafford in the title role and Susan Bickley as La Zia Principessa. And before the opera, Peter Medhurst is giving a talk on Puccini and his women with live musical illustrations. Tom points out that Suor Angelica is a challenge for any company with its casting requirement of 14 female singers and at West Green the cast will include past and present participants in the West Green House Opera Young Artist Programme. This years Young Artists will also be presenting their own lunchtime […]
2024-02-28 07:37:00
Beauty and meaning: Handel's Theodora from Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo with Louise Alder in the title role
Handel: Theodora; Louise Alder, Tim Mead, Anna Stéphany, Stuart Jackson, Adam Plachetka, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen; Alpha ClassicsReviewed 20 February 2024A performance of Handel's late masterpiece that combines musical beauties with a sense of the inner meaning of the words, with a wonderful central performance from Louise AlderConsidering that Handel evidently regarded it as one of his favourite oratorios and that any performance of it is something of an event, Handel's Theodora has rather a sparse history on disc, though the converse of that is that most of the recordings are that little bit special. Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli recorded it in 2000 with Susan Gritton and Susan Bickley, Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro recorded it in 2022 with Lisette Oropesa and Joyce DiDonato, whilst further back there is the recording with the unforgettable Lorraine Hunt Lieberson from 1992 as well as the famous Glyndebourne production.Now Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo have […]
2024-02-02 10:19:00
As chilling and emotional as ever: Kate Lindsey returns as Offred in ENO's strong revival of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale
[…] Poul Ruders' operaEnglish National Opera's 2022 production of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale [see my original review] was cut short due to COVID-related problems so that it is good news that Annilese Miskimmon's production returned to the London Coliseum on 1 February 2024 (revived by James Hurley) for five performances with Kate Lindsey returning to the role of Offred and Joana Carneiro back in the pit. Juliet Stevenson was Professor Pieixoto, John Findon was Luke, Susan Bickley was Offred's mother, Rachel Nicholls was Aunt Lydia, Nadine Benjamin was Moira, Rhian Lois was Janine/Ofwarren, Avery Amereau was Serena Joy, James Creswell was The Commander, Madeleine Shaw was Rita, Zwakele Tshabalala was Nick and Eleanor Dennis as Ofglen.Mskimmon's production is as effective as ever, with Annemarie Woods' stripped down designs placing a firm focus on the individual characters. The ensemble scenes, however, play a significant role in creating a sense of the chilling […]
2022-07-15 14:29:41
The Hub at St Mary’s, LichfieldStephen McNeff’s chamber opera, based on the relationship between Alma Mahler and her daughter, hinges on two singers who rise to the occasionManon Gropius is best remembered as the “angel” to whose memory Alban Berg dedicated his great Violin Concerto. Her parents were Alma Mahler and the
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