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2024-03-13 08:14:00
Out of the Shadows in Clapham and Estonia
Following its successful premiere in February 2023, Out of the Shadows, the evening of my songs will be returning in 2024 with performances for Pride 2024 at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, and at the Glasperlenspiel Festival in Tartu, Estonia, during Tartu's year as one of the European Capitals of Culture.The performers are tenor Ben Vonberg-Clark (precentor at the church of St John the Divine, Kennington and conductor of the London Youth Boys' Choir), baritone Jonathan Eyers (currently a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio), and pianist Nigel Foster (founder and artistic director of the London Song Festival).As part of 96 Festival, Omnibus Theatre's celebration of queerness and theatre, Out of the Shadows will be performed on 16 June 2024. Then on Friday 5 July 2024, the programme will be presented at St John's Church, Tartu as part of the Glasperlenspiel Festival. The festival is a leading musical event in […]
2023-09-04 04:28:15
(Also published as The Wind Blows Death.) I couldn’t really tell you why, but for some reason
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 […]
2023-08-25 08:13:00
Wagner: Tannhäuser - Le Gateau Chocolat - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Wagner: Tannhäuser; Jens-Erik Aasbø, Markus Eiche, Günther Groissböck, Julia Grüter, Ekaterina Gubanova, Siyabonga Maqungo, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton, Olafur Sigurdarson, Elisabeth Teige, Klaus Florian Vogt; dir: Tobias Kratzer; cond: Nathalie Stutzmann; Bayreuth Festival Reviewed by Tony Cooper, 23 August 2023Katharina Wagner puts in a Hitchcock-style appearance in this compelling and telling production of Tannhäuser. This current production of Tannhäuser by Tobias Kratzer (which, incidentally, received its première in Dresden on 19th October 1845) chalks up the opera’s ninth staging at the Bayreuth Festival and was first seen in 2019. It’s now making its final bow following a four-year tenure on the Grüner Hügel. Surprisingly, no other work in the Wagner canon has received such few productions. By the way, Kratzer made his Bayreuth début with this production which, I feel, has lost none of its shine or momentum since I attended […]
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