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German actress and singer
- soprano
- Germany, German Democratic Republic
- opera singer, stage actor, film actor, soprano singer
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A Life On-Line: Christmas with Bach and Rossini, plus a New Year's Day in the Roaring 20s
Tippett: The Heart's Assurance - Tom Elwin, English Touring Opera The week leading up to Christmas Day got off to a great musical start with the final two concerts from Wigmore Hall. First off was Stile Antico in music for Christmas from the Spanish Golden Age, mixing the sacred and the secular. To avoid the usual Christmas salmagundi, the ensemble wove the programme together via a complete performance of Alonso Lobo's richly textured six-voice Missa Beata Dei Genitrix, and interspersed within this were motets by Francisco Guerrero (Lobo's teacher) and Christobal del Morales, plus lighter Christmas songs in Spanish by Guerrero and Matteo Flecha. The concert is still available to watch on the Wigmore Hall website, and if you want a more permanent reminder, the ensemble's programme was based on its 2019 disc, A Spanish Nativity. The Cardinall's Musick, director Andrew Carwood, then rounded off the […]
2019-08-28 06:37:23
Noah Mosley and Elisabetta Campeti's Aurora at the Grimeborn Festival
Katherine Aitken, Isolde RoxbyBury Court Opera (Photo Robert Workman) Noah Mosely & Elisabetta Campeti Aurora; Isolde Roxby, Katherine Aitken, Andrew Tipple, Jean-Max Lattemann, dir: Aylin Bozok; Bury Court Opera at the Grimeborn Festival Reviewed by Anthony Evans on 24 August 2019 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) Noah Mosely's irrepressibly romantic new opera returns to Grimeborn after its premiere earlier this yearOn Saturday 24 August 2019, Bury Court Opera’s production of Aurora appeared as part of the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre. [See Robert's review of the opera's premiere at Bury Court]. At Saturday’s performance, directed by Aylin Bozok, Isolde Roxby and Katherine Aitken sang Aurora and the Wild Woman; Andrew Tipple the King. Jean-Max Lattemann was the Mountain Witch, whilst Dominic Bowe and Magid El Bushra were the two Princes. Aurora is the second opera Bury Court has commissioned from composer Noah Mosley. Noah is a […]
2019-08-08 12:13:49
Tête à Tête: dance, Chinese folk tales, and the Apollo Mission to the moon
Huan Li: The Bridge of Magpies - Tête à Tête (Photo Claire Shovelton) Huan Li The Bridge of Magpies, Edward Lambert Apollo's Mission; Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival at The Place Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 7 August 2019 Dance, Chinese art song, satire and moon landings in another pair of new works from Tête à TêteFor our second visit to Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival at The Place we caught two more operas, The Bridge of Magpies by Huan Li and Apollo's Mission by Edward Lambert. The Bridge of Magpies told a traditional Chinese story using Chinese art song woven together with music by composer Huan Li with contributions on Chinese instruments, Pipa and Gugin, from Cheng Yu. The work was choreographed by Julia Cheng (who also danced) and directed by Sarah Hutchinson with Phoebe Haines (soprano), Jacob Bettinelli (baritone) and dancers Ellen […]
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