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Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2023-10-23 23:01:12
Royal Opera House, LondonSam Steiner’s play, set in a world of rationed speech, lends itself to movement, and the dancers here also retain the dialogue, fusing the forms with quiet graceA story in which a new “hush law” limits every person to 140 spoken words a day is a good idea for a dance adaptation: who would thrive in those circumstances except expert physical communicators? Although in Sam Steiner’s 2015 play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (here renamed The Limit), nobody thrives under such draconian control. Certainly not the couple in this two-hander, played by Royal Ballet principals Alexander Campbell (whose idea this show was) and Francesca Hayward. Surprisingly, they don’t replace script with dance but act the whole play – remarkably well considering they’re not trained actors – and move at the same time. Hayward is the Royal’s most natural and luminous dance-actress, and her inner light turns out to […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2023-10-17 19:00:19
When a principal at the Royal Ballet asked to adapt his drama about imposed verbal limits, playwright Sam Steiner was all in. ‘There are things dance does better,’ he says‘Why don’t you start in the weird position?” suggests director Ed Madden. “That’s a technical term!” he calls across the Royal Ballet’s Opera House studio. “Weird position” may not derive from the classical ballet textbook, but it perfectly suits the making of The Limit – an audacious production that reimagines Sam Steiner’s cult play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons with some of the Royal Ballet’s boldest artists.The encounter began with the amiable but ambitious Alexander Campbell, an Australian-born principal with the Royal. “In lockdown, I was thinking about the work I wanted to do,” he says. “I was keen to work with people who inspired me.” He and fellow principal Francesca Hayward considered working with text, and his producer sister Amelia recommended […]
2022-12-23 00:00:00
TOWER Voices New Zealand - A Voices Christmas
A Voices Christmas01 Benjamin Britten: Hodi Christus natus est, Procession from 'A Ceremony of Carols'02 Francis Poulenc: O magnum mysterium, No. 1 from 'Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel'03 Trad.: Ther is no rose of swych vertu04 John Joubert: There is no rose of such virtue05 Jan Sandstrom: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen06 David Griffiths: Dormi Jesu07 Bob Chilcott: Nova! Nova!08 Francis Poulenc: Quem vidistis, No. 2 from 'Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel'09 Bob Chilcott: The Shepherd's Carol10 Franz Gruber: Stille Nacht! heilige Nacht!11 Francis Poulenc: Videntes stellam, No. 3 from 'Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel'12 Richard Rodney Bennett: Susanni, No. 5 from 'Five Carols'13 Jonathan Dove: The Three Kings14 Herbert Howells: Here is the little door15 Peter Wishart: Alleluya. A new work is come on hand16 Trad. arr. Peter Hayward: The Christ-Child's Lullaby17 Richard Rodney Bennett: Sweet was the song, No. 4 from 'Five Carols'18 […]
2022-07-28 21:39:00
[…] jobs (that is, as of the near future, or now, they do not have a posting):Osmo VänskäAlasdair NealeBen SimonSusanna Mälkki, who leaves the Helsinki Philharmonic at the end of 2023-24Jaap van Zweden, who leaves the NY Phil at the end of 2023-24MGT (apparently does not want a full-time job, as of early 2022)Krzysztof UrbańskiMiguel Harth-BedoyaLionel BringuierLudovic MorlotSian EdwardsIngo MetzmacherJac van SteenMark WigglesworthDavid RobertsonPeter OundjianPhilippe AuguinKwame RyanIlan VolkovAleksandr MarkovicLothar KoenigsHenrik NanasiAnd closed:Baltimore Symphony, with the appointment of Jonathon Hayward. Michigan Opera Theater: new principal conductor is Daniela Candillari.Teatro Comunale, Bologna: Oksana Lyniv becomes music director.Sarasota Orchestra: Bramwell Tovey becomes MD in 2022-23.Atlanta Symphony: Nathalie Stufzmann to succeed Robert Spano in 2022-23.Carlos Kalmar is now Director of Orchestral and Conducting Programs and Principal Conductor of the Cleveland Institute of Musicas well as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. Houston Synphony: Juraj Valčuha to succeed Andrés Orozco-Estrada.Opera de Paris: Gustavo Dudamel succeeds […]
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