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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-20 02:28:49
The Ying Quartet’s return to Shalin Liu, in company with the lively double bassist-composer Xavier Foley, welcomed a full house with an inviting radiance and upbeat good humor. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-02-29 12:31:30
The Coliseum, LondonThere’s never a dull moment in Simon McBurney’s ingenious production, with Sarah Tynan and the ENO orchestra in fine fettle and a demented dalek-like Queen of the NightFor all Mozart’s musical genius, The Magic Flute can be a long and not especially funny night at the opera. That certainly isn’t the case with Simon McBurney’s 2013 production at the beleaguered English National Opera. Staged in collaboration with Complicité, and scrupulously revived by director Rachael Hewer, there’s a lifetime of wit, wisdom and theatrical audacity distilled in this inventive peach of a show.Ditching the masonic mumbo-jumbo and gussying up the dialogue, McBurney has you laughing out loud. A dozen actors, their movement beautifully choreographed, bustle around without ever pulling focus; singers inhabit the auditorium without it feeling gratuitous. There’s aerial wizardry, tiny shadow puppets, some inventive and immaculately coordinated live video (Ben Thompson) and equally ingenious deployment of an […]
2023-08-11 10:00:00
Double bassist Xavier Foley is a decorated performer and composer working at the intersection of classical, pop, and traditional folk.. The post appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
2023-08-02 04:00:55
New York season opened with a world premiere by Amir ElSaffar followed by a memorable solo performance from Xavier Foley
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