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2022-07-06 06:48:54
Celebrating its fifth anniversary, Waterperry Opera Festival promises a delightful and entertaining season all round! Tony Cooper reports
Audiences picnicking at Waterperry Opera (Photo Robert Workman, 2019)Waterperry Opera Festival - celebrating its fifth anniversary this year - runs from Friday 12 to Saturday 20 August at their delightful home at Waterperry Gardens on the Waterperry Estate just a stone's-throw away from Oxford. Interestingly, the Gardens were established by the English horticulturist, Beatrix Havergal, in 1932. Here Ms Havergal ran a residential horticultural college for women and when she retired in 1971 the college shut down. A year later the School of Economic Science purchased the Waterperry Estate including Waterperry Gardens which it runs to generate revenue for the school.In total there are eight rich fertile acres of landscaped ornamental gardens comprising an alpine garden, formal knot garden, herbaceous borders, riverside walk, rose garden and water-lily canal. There are also five acres of orchards and two collections of saxifrages which are accredited with ‘plant heritage’ under the National […]
2021-08-11 18:54:18
Good Morning America (GMA) reported that the man waiting for his flight back home to Nashville was Carlos Whittaker, a motivational speaker and author of the book "Enter Wild." An event of his got canceled and he ended up in Atlanta for over an hour. "I used to be a musician," Whittaker told GMA. […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-07-26 07:21:30
To focus on the journey, on the people and their stories: Julia Burbach directs Wagner's Die Walküre for the Grimeborn Festival
Wagner: Die Walküre - Evgeny Nikitin (Wotan) - Opéra National de Bordeaux (Photo Eric Bouloumie) Opera director Julia Burbach has been spending quite a bit of time with Wagner recently, specifically his Ring Cycle. In 2019 she directed the Grimeborn Festival's production of Das Rheingold [see my review], the first in what was hoped/planned to be eventually a full cycle based around Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick's reduced version of The Ring originally made for Birmingham Opera Company. And in 2019, Julia also directed Die Walküre for Opéra National de Bordeaux in a production that was planned to transfer to Icelandic Opera in 2020 but which has now been re-scheduled for 2022. And now, having just directed Mascagni's L'amico Fritz for Opera Holland Park [see my review], Julia directs Die Walküre for the Grimeborn Festival at the Hackney Empire conducted by Peter Selwyn on 4, 6 and 7 August […]
2021-07-26 07:19:43
A light touch, yet full of character: Mascagni's L'amico Fritz proves an engaging discovery at Opera Holland Park
Mascagni: L'amico Fritz - Opera Holland Park, 2021 (Photo Ali Wright) Mascagni L'amico Fritz; Katie Bird, Matteo Lippi, Paul Carey Jones, dir: Julia Burbach, City of London Sinfonia, cond: Beatrice Venezi; Opera Holland Park Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 24 July 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Mascagni's lyrical comedy in a rare London outing which enables us to enjoy the work's engaging characterMascagni's opera L'amico Fritz was almost as famous and popular as his Cavalleria Rusticana during the composer's lifetime, but since his death in 1945 the opera's hold on the repertoire has waned, its appearances often restricted to famous tenors wanting to sing the 'Cherry Duet', the best-known moment from the opera. Opera Holland Park has kept faith with the piece (possibly the only major London company to have performed the work) and having produced it before (around 10 years ago and 20 years ago), they […]
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