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2024-02-02 10:19:00
As chilling and emotional as ever: Kate Lindsey returns as Offred in ENO's strong revival of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale
Poul Ruders: The Handmaid's Tale - Kate Lindsey, John Findon (film) - English National Opera 2024 (Photo: Zoe Martin)Poul Ruders & Paul Bentley: The Handmaid's Tale; Kate Lindsey, Juliet Stevenson, Rachel Nicholls, Nadine Benjamin, Rhian Lois, Avery Amereau, James Creswell, Madeleine Shaw, Zwakele Tshabalala, Eleanor Dennis, director Annilese Miskimmon/James Hurley, conductor Joana Carneiro; English National Opera at the London ColiseumReviewed 1 February 2024As chilling as ever; Kate Lindsey's emotional rollercoaster performance as Offred anchors a strong revival of Poul Ruders' operaEnglish National Opera's 2022 production of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale [see my original review] was cut short due to COVID-related problems so that it is good news that Annilese Miskimmon's production returned to the London Coliseum on 1 February 2024 (revived by James Hurley) for five performances with Kate Lindsey returning to the role of Offred and Joana Carneiro back in the pit. Juliet Stevenson was Professor Pieixoto, John Findon was […]
2023-12-12 10:07:41
[…] Chorus is one of the world’s most instantly recognisable (and most memed) pieces of classical music. This month – like every December – there are performances all over the world from Philadelphia to Paris and Perth - both Scotland’s and Australia’s.Marin Alsop rehearses the BBC Concert Orchestra, the big band, and the choir (the London Adventist Chorale with the BBC Symphony Chorus) at Henry Wood Hall, London SE1. Middle right: South African tenor soloist Zwakele Tshabalala with Karin Hendrickson, who is assisting Marin Alsop.
2022-09-07 17:47:00
Royal Albert HallGeorge Walker: Lilacs Beethoven: Symphony no.9 in D minor, op.125 Nicole Cabell (soprano)Raehann Bryce-Davis (mezzo-soprano)Zwakele Tshabalala (tenor)Ryan Speedo Green (baritone)Chineke! Voices (chorus master: Simon Halsey)Chineke! OrchestraKevin John Edusei (conductor) Very much a concert of two (unequal) halves, I am afraid. The first Proms performance of George Walker’s 1995 Lilacspromised and delivered much. However, the following performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, though loudly acclaimed by much of the audience, exposed yet another contemporary conductor’s inability or unwillingness to do much more than skate over and harry this unluckiest of scores. Walker’s piece, for voice (Nicole Cabell) and orchestra offered many connections, even correspondences, with other music. What music, after all, does not? It could never, however, be reduced to those correspondences, speaking very much with its own voice and in its own way: direct yet rich, purposeful, yet (unlike poor Beethoven) with plenty of space. The opening horn […]
2020-05-09 00:23:00
DEEPLY ROOTED DANCE THEATER BEYOND DANCE PROGRAMS CONTINUE IN MAY
[…] and personal growth informed by each participant’s creativity and artistic process. Students participate in a warm-up class to learn choreography phrases of a specific work and transition into a guided conversation about that work/choreography. The April session featured Deeply Rooted Co-Founder Kevin Iega Jeff’'s Church of Nations.The next session takes place May 28 (rather than the previously announced May 21 and June 18) and features guest instructor Fana Tshabalala from South Africa. Tshabalala previously worked with Deeply Rooted on the 2017 premiere of an American/Chicago-focused adaptation of his work INDUMBA, which will make up the content of this Continuum session. He has choreographed and performed nationally and internationally, including Lena Dance Company in Sweden, Dance Umbrella 2018 in Geneva, and Dance Dialogue Africa, which toured Germany and 12 African countries. He is co-founder and currently a director […]
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