Tom Burke News
British singer (1890-1969)
- tenor
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- opera singer
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2024-03-28
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2024-03-13 08:14:00
Out of the Shadows in Clapham and Estonia
[…] & early 20th century homosexual to a desperate search for eternal life, alongside songs celebrating love in all forms. Out of the Shadows moves from the earliest tentative admissions of same sex attraction, to cruising in a bath house in Imperial Russia to Walt Whitman’s unashamed admission of his sexuality. Et expecto explores the search for eternal life in different forms, from the certainty of the Latin creed, to explorations of cryogenics, the body-snatching of Burke and Hare and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, before resolving in the homoerotic pantheistic transcendentalism of Walt Whitman with its celebration of Death itself.Alongside these there are love songs and settings of Michaelangelo’s sonnets plus a depiction of an Aids candlelit memorial.Out of the ShadowsBen Vonberg-Clark (tenor), Jonathan Eyers (baritone), Nigel Foster (piano)7pm 16 June 2024 - Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common Northside, London SW4 0QW10pm 5 July 2024 - Glasperlenspiel Festival at St John's Church, […]
2024-02-20 09:27:00
La voix humaine: two different productions bring Poulenc's intimate drama to London
[…] time opera has been performed in the venue for ten years. In April, Pegasus Opera Company is presenting Poulenc's La voix humaine in a double bill with Philip Hagemann's Roman Fever at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music.Green Opera's critically-acclaimed production of Francis Poulenc's La Voix humaine returns for a strictly limited run, 14-16 March 2024 at the newly reconstructed purpose-built King's Head Theatre. New Zealand soprano Katherine McIndoe with Eleanor Burke as director and André Callegaro as music director, these latter two both Jette Parker Young Artists at the Royal Opera House.Green Opera is the first and only environmentally-sustainable opera company; for every £10 donated or ticket purchased, Green Opera plants a tree with Eden Reforestation Projects. So far they have planted over 2,000 trees! The March performances are in support of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance to whom 25% of the box office proceeds […]
2023-12-04 10:41:00
Total immersion: the Glasshouse's Big Bruckner Weekend features his final three symphonies, a mass, motets & more
[…] the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Bruckner’s Symphony No.7, Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé perform Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 and Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's unfinished Symphony No. 9. Thomas Zehetmair conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia & chorus in Bruckner's Mass No. 3 with soloists Elizabeth Watts, Hannah Hipp, Thomas Atkins and Mark Stone, whilst throughout the weekend the chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia will be performing Bruckner's motets, conducted by Timothy Burke, and string principals of Royal Northern Sinfonia perform Bruckner’s String Quintet.Full details from the Glasshouse website.
2023-11-21 07:29:00
[…] of tone. The finale, "Outbreak", was another explosive outburst of sound - driven by Eger's frantic work on an expanded kit, this built and built, growing in complexity, before finally settling into massive sustained chords from the whole ensemble, bringing the packed Queen Elizabeth Hall crowd to its feet in an noisy explosion of their own.Reviewed by Florence Anna MaundersMarius Neset: Geyser - Marius Neset, London Sinfonietta (Photo: Sisi Burn)In conversation with the Sinfonietta's artistic director, Andrew Burke, he spoke about how the ensemble pride themselves in their ability to work so successfully with musicians from different genres:FM What is it like for a contemporary classical ensemble to work closely with an improvising musician like Marius?AB Working with Marius Nesit is so extraordinary, it's a really honest and respectful collaboration... [with a] real sense of joyfulness. The players are delighted to be able to work with him again. The insight they get […]
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