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Ashes to ashes
Gioachino Rossini’s adorable adaptation of Cinderella famously dispenses with a slipper in favor of a bracelet to lead the Principe Ramiro back to his Cenerentola. If only this performance had benefitted from such a glittering guiding hand.
2023-10-08 09:35:00
Musical pleasure: strong & stylish performances from a young cast in English Touring Opera's new production of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Rossini: Cinderella - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith)Rossini: Cinderella (La Cenerentola); Esme Bronwen-Smith, Joseph Doody, Edmund Danon, Arshak Kuzikyan, Nazan Fikret, Lauren Young, Edward Hawkins, director: Jenny Ogilvie, conductor: Naomi Woo; English Touring Opera at the Hackney EmpireAn enviable young cast in a stylish, musical account of Rossini's opera buffa that balances the serious and the comicThe second opera in English Touring Opera's (ETO) Spring season is Rossini's Cinderella, contrasting in style and genre from Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea but both pieces have strong women who come out on top, an intriguing link. Rossini's Cinderella opened at the Hackney Empire on Saturday 7 October 2023 in a production directed by Jenny Ogilvie and conducted by Naomi Woo. Esme Bronwen-Smith was Cinderella with Joseph Doody as Ramiro, Edward Hawkins as Alidoro, Nazan Fikret and Lauren Young as Clorinda and Tisbe, Edmund Danon as Dandini and Arshak Kuzikyan as Don Magnifico. Designs were by Basia Binkowska.Having […]
2022-11-17 22:35:00
[…] the Kristin Lewis Vocal Scholarship Competition (Grand Prize Winner, 2018). Sponsored by Peggy & Boyce Nute Victor Cardamone(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)Victor Cardamone has garnered much attention and critical acclaim over the last decade. His ”sweet tenor” is equally known for its “power and ringing high notes” (Cincinnati Business Courier). Cardamone has performed with the Merola Opera Program, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Columbus, Wolf Trap Opera and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Leading roles include Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola), Jeník (The Bartered Bride), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni). He has been a member of Opera Fusion: New Works and was part of the first workshops/studio recordings for Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice (co-commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera), Scott Davenport Richards’ Blind Injustice and Kevin Puts’ The Hours (co-commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra). Cardamone is a three-time Central Region Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was sole recipient […]
2022-01-21 09:15:08
Opera scenes from the Young Artists of the National Opera Studio with the orchestra of English National Opera at Cadogan Hall
[…] duet for Gilda (Inna Husieva) and Rigoletto (Kamohelo Tsotetsi) from Act 1 of Verdi's Rigoletto. Husieva was an appealingly vibrant Gilda, yet also poised and controlled whilst Tsotetsi was an intense Rigoletto, displaying a wonderfully expansive sense of line, and there was even a short moment for Sian Griffiths as Giovanna. Then came the Act 1 quintet from Rossini's La cenerentola, where Joanna Harries' Cenerentola pleaded with Jolyon Loy's Don Magnifico whilst Dandini (Josef Ahn), Ramiro (Mawabisi Lindi) and Alidoro (Thomas D Hopkinson) looked on. Harries was a serious and rather intent Cenerentola with an admirable grasp of the fioriture, whilst Loy made Magnifico highly physical and was clearly having much fun with the role. Both Lindi and Ahn combined Rossinian style with character whilst Hopkinson made Alidoro's sudden appearance with great aplomb. The mood then darkened as Logan Lopez Gonzalez sang the Refugee's Act 3 aria from Jonathan Dove's […]
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