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Soviet composer and music educator
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- Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan
- composer, music teacher
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2023-08-30 06:44:00
Back to Wonderland: Will Todd's Alice opera returns in an engaging new production at IF Opera
Will Todd: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Dominick Felix - IF Opera (Photo: LAIMA)Will Todd: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lara Marie Muller, Dominick Felix, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Joanna Harries, Dan D'Souza, Lorena Paz Nieto, Monica McGee, Keel Watson, Alexey Gusev,Emyr Wyn Jones, Katy Thomson, director: Lysanne van Overbeek, conductor Mark Austin; IF Opera at Belcombe CourtCelebrating its 10th anniversary, Will Todd's opera still engages old and young in a brand new production from IF OperaThe trick with a good family opera is to provide the right level of entertainment for both adults and children. Will Todd and Maggie Gottlieb's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, celebrating the 10th anniversary of its debut at Opera Holland Park (OHP), does just that.A free fantasy on Lewis Carroll's stories, the opera combines highly coloured incarnations of well-known characters, singable tunes with sly references to popular genres, and a plot that merges girls' own adventure […]
2023-08-29 06:27:00
Giordano: Fedora - Charne Rochford, Sky Ingram - IF Opera (Photo: LAIMA)Giordano: Fedora; Sky Ingram, Charne Rochford, Lorena Paz Nieto, Alexey Gusev, director: John Wilkie, Bristol Ensemble, conductor: Oliver Gooch; IF Opera at Belcombe CourtA young cast and an admirably lucid production bring out the passion and melodic charms of Giordano's thrillerUmberto Giordani's 1898 opera Fedora doesn't get out often enough. You can find plenty off reason why it shouldn't work, but those sort of criteria apply equally to operas firmly in the canon, and there is plenty of music in the piece of a quality to make an spending an evening in the theatre with Fedora a rewarding experience.At IF Opera, director John Wilkie [see my recent interview with John] gave Fedora (seen 26 August 2023) a good rethinking. Conducted by Oliver Gooch (IF Opera's artistic director) with the Bristol Ensemble in the pit, the production featured Sky Ingram as Fedora, Charne […]
2021-08-14 08:16:11
Don't be scared of song: I chat to pianist Malcolm Martineau the sheer variety of Fauré's songs
Gabriel Fauré playing piano duets Mlle. Lombard in 1913 Pianist Malcolm Martineau has just released the fourth (and final) volume of The Complete Songs of Gabriel Fauré on the Signum Classics label, following on from his set of the complete songs for Francis Poulenc on the same label, the Fauré volumes use a wide variety of singers both young artists and those of rather more mature vintages to great effect. I recently met up with Malcolm at a cafe conveniently between our homes in South London to chat about Fauré, song and much else besides. Malcolm Martineau at the recording session for his recent Fauré disc So, what was it about Fauré's songs which made Malcolm want to record all of them, and for the second time, as he recorded them in 2009 with mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker and baritone Tom Krause […]
2020-01-17 09:42:13
European song exploration: Malcolm Martineau's Decades - A Century of Song reaches the 1840s
Decades - A Century of Song: Volume 4 - Schumann, Dargomyzhshky, Franck, Donizetti, Lindblad, Josephson, Geijer, Mendelssohn; Anush Hovhannisyan, Ida Evelina Ranzlöv, Nick Pritchard, Oliver Johnston, Florian Boesch, Alexey Gusev, Samuel Hasselhorn, Malcolm Martineau; Vivat Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 17 January 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Malcolm Martineau's song exploration reaches the 1840s, and shows us that there was much more to European song than simply SchumannPianist Malcolm Martineau's Decades - A Century of Song on Vivat reaches the 1840s with Liederkreis where he is joined by singers Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano), Ida Evelina Ranzlöv (mezzo-soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Oliver Johnston (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Alexey Gusev (baritone) and Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone) for a selection of songs from the decade by Robert Schumann, Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhshky, Gaetano Donizetti, Adolf Fredrick Lindblad, Jacob Axel Josephson, Erik Gustav Geijer, and Felix Mendelssohn. The problem with any selection […]
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