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Dutch opera singer
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- Kingdom of the Netherlands
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2023-10-26 06:37:00
Stories in music in Oxford: visual inspirations from the Mendelssohn siblings, William Blake in song & image, vivid story-telling from Wolf & Mörike
Mendelssohn, Looking at Blake, Hugo Wolf: Mörike Lieder; Harriet Burns, Alessandro Fisher, Eugene Asti, Robin Tritschler, Christopher Glynn, Thomas Oliemans, Hans Eijsackers; Oxford Lieder FestivalMusic, visual arts and story-telling in a day at the Oxford International Song Festival, ranging widely over the Mendelssohn siblings' relationship, 20th century settings of Blake, and Hugo Wolf in devilishly good formTuesday 24 October 2023 was a day of stories at the Oxford International Song Festival. Things began with soprano Harriet Burns, tenor Alessandro Fisher and pianist Eugene Asti in songs by both Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, then at rush hour, tenor Robin Tritschler and pianist Christopher Glynn combined 20th-century settings of William Blake with the artist's own images, and in the evening we had the vivid story-telling of baritone Thomas Oliemans and pianist Hans Eijsackers in a selection of Wolf's Mörike-Lieder.The day had begun with a Show and Tell at The Weston Library, looking at Mendelssohn-related manuscripts […]
2022-07-20 13:23:00
21st Birthday: Oxford Lieder Festival comes of age with a celebration of Friendship in Song
This Autumn, Oxford Lieder Festival celebrates its 21st birthday with a fortnight of song (from 14 to 29 October 2022) under the banner Friendship in Song: An Intimate Art. The focus of the festival is of song-making as a social art, from gatherings round the piano to salons to composers writing for friends. Mark Padmore will be artist in residence, giving an all-Schubert recital, performing lute songs, giving a lecture on Britten's poets, being in conversation with Kate Kennedy as well as leading the festival's Mastercourse with young singers.Holywell Music RoomBaritone Thomas Oliemans will be giving a performance of Winterreise, accompanying himself on the piano, and there will be appearances from Dame Sarah Connolly, Christoph Prégardien, Kate Royal, Carolyn Sampson, Camilla Tilling, Dorothea Röschmann, Roderick Williams, Birgid Steinberger, Thomas Oliemans, Claire Booth, Benjamin Appl, Christopher Purves, James Gilchrist, Iestyn Davies, Christine Rice, Werner Güra, Sarah Wegener and Julian Prégardien. But it is with the themed events […]
2022-06-21 16:49:58
Anglais - McVicar’s Old Zauberflöte continues to be Magical
[…] which he combines skilfully with the transcendent layer of the Masonic initiation ritual, presenting a striking and agile ensemble. On the musical side, there were many debuts that had generated great expectation. Gustavo Dudamel, who appears to be increasingly interested in conducting opera, conducted this foundational title for the first time in his career. Also, Javier Camarena, who had stated years ago he would never sing Tamino was debuting in this role. Finally, Thomas Oliemans and Lucy Crowe debuted at Liceu in two crucial roles of the piece, such as Papageno and Pamina. Gustavo Dudamel generally drove the piece well. He did an overly quick overture which didn´t allow the music to breathe naturally and the first intervention of the three Ladies was also too fast and uncoordinated. With the arrival of “Bei Männern”, one of the many Mozart examples of ‘saintly music’ that heals the soul’s sorrows, […]
2022-02-15 09:46:32
[…] in the form of an opera into how stories are formed and shared in our age of internet voyeurism, conspiracy theories, fake news and being online 24/7. Manfred Trojahn's Eurydice - Die Liebenden, blind is inspired both by Greek myth and by Rainer Maria Rilke's terrific Sonette an Orpheus. The new opera is directed by Pierre Audi, with Erik Nielsen conducting the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra with Andrè Schuen as Orpheus, Julia Kleiter as Eurydice, Thomas Oliemans as Pluto, Katia Ledoux as Proserpina. Trojahn's contemporary take on the story uses the power of music to allegorically describe the attraction of the muse-like figure of Eurydice to the singing artist Orpheus, to describe the love between Orpheus and Eurydice as the love between word and sound, between artistry and inspiration. When Manoj Kamps and Lisenka Heijboer Castañón premiered FAUST [Working Title] with DNO they introduced a working practice that created new work […]
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